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...embarrassment in another sense. At least the misleaders and pied pipers who came out of the bowels of the civil-rights movement paid lip service to the idea of uplifting the race. Obama and the new generation of black policy-makers, such as Newark, New Jersey, mayor Cory Booker, self-professed drug-dealer-cum-Harvard-professor Roland Fryer, and former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr., pay scant allegiance to the past or feel little obligation to their fellow blacks as blacks...
...Alan Robock, a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University who participated in the original nuclear winter research, recently completed a study on the results of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. He spoke with TIME from his office in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (See pictures from the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks...
Waller's death helped prompt an athletic-safety task force in North Carolina to recommend that all public high schools in the state be required to employ a full-time certified athletic trainer by August 2011. Meanwhile, after a high school student in New Jersey died of a brain injury suffered while playing football in October, New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell introduced legislation in late 2008 that would set aside federal funding for computerized preseason baseline and postinjury neurocognitive testing for student athletes. This is a tough time to be asking for money, he says, but "when you compare this...
...about 3:30 p.m., news helicopters were capturing compelling images of the jet partly submerged in the water and surrounded by rescue boats and commuter ferries. Numerous emergency vehicles could be seen on the New Jersey shore, responding to the incident. By 4 p.m., the plane had sunk into the frigid waters. MSNBC reported that the pilot had radioed air-traffic controllers shortly after takeoff to say that the plane had collided with a flock of geese. Losing altitude, the pilot reportedly opted for a water landing. A survivor told reporters that he was sitting next to the wing when...
...become a place for anonymous fundraising. (Foundation spokesman Matt McKenna says the Global Initiative is, in fact, in the process of being incorporated separately from the charitable foundation.) Hillary Clinton pointed out that all sponsors of the initiative are publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct." McKenna confirmed the initiative's intention to continue disclosing donors once it spins off the foundation. (See pictures of Bill Clinton campaigning with Hillary...