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...what did Obama say to charm his former colleagues into blocking the resolution? He promised to write, in a detailed manner, a letter explaining how his Administration would dole out the funds once he is sworn in on Jan. 20. "The conditions have to do with tracking the money, how the money can and can't be used, accountability for the money, what dividends cannot be spent with it, the executive pay issues," said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, emerging from the meeting. "In other words, there's a whole host of misuses of the first half which have...
...Jan. 5, in a public email explaining why he would not be giving a keynote at the annual Macworld Expo, Jobs denied reports that he was in declining health. The charismatic founder has consistently maintained that he has a rare but treatable form of the disease, and attributed his emaciated appearance - first noticed during a press event during the summer - to a "hormone imbalance." Jobs, 53, said he had already begun treatment, which he described as "relatively simple and straightforward...
...response to the ruling, Republican state senator John Benoit of Riverside proposed a bill on Jan. 6 that would extend the statute to include all emergency services rendered at the scene of an emergency, regardless of who performs the deed. "I spent 31 years in law enforcement, and as a highway patrol officer I responded to many, many, many accidents. I was not the first one there. Someone had helped a victim out of the car, out of the traffic lane, administered CPR," says Benoit. "I immediately, upon hearing about this case, was extremely concerned that it would...
...comforting thought, except for one thing: it's not true. A study published in the Jan. 9 issue of Science shows that far from compensating for the damages associated with climate change (heavier and more frequent storms, increasing desertification, sea-level rise), hotter temperatures will seriously diminish the world's ability to feed itself. David Battisti, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, and Rosamond Naylor, director of the Program for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, analyzed data from 23 climate models and found a more than 90% chance that by the end of the century...
Three more Harvard graduates will be heading to Washington D.C. come Jan. 20. Last week, David W. Ogden, Michelle A. Flournoy ’83, and Thomas J. Perelli, were all nominated by president-elect Obama to serve under his administration. Perelli and Ogden are graduates of the Law School while Flournoy, an Eliot House resident as an undergraduate, studied Social Studies at the College...