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...Daily Kos and other left-leaning blogs last week monitored a round-the-clock mock filibuster that Princeton students organized in front of the school's Frist Campus Center, whose name was a result of a $25 million pledge from the family of Senate majority leader Bill Frist. The nonstop protest--still going strong 11 days after its April 26 launch--challenged the alum's efforts to end the Senate's filibustering of judicial nominees. Joining the students were several professors and politicians, including New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt, above...
...debate over Social Security reform got nasty last week when this ad from conservative lobbying group USA Next appeared on the American Spectator website. Blogs such as DAILY KOS and TALKING POINTS MEMO (TPM) challenged the implication that the AARP, which opposes Bush's privatization plan, is antitroop and pro--gay marriage. The ad was removed hours later, but TPM continues to ask whether USA Next, whose assault on the AARP is run in part by the people who created last year's Swift Boat ads, is connected to the Administration. USA Next denies...
...mysterious tale of JIM GUCKERT continues to unfold on the Web two weeks after the White House reporter (using the nom de laptop Jeff Gannon) resigned. THE DAILY KOS and other blogs forced the issue--prompted by two years of Guckert's asking outrageously slanted questions--by drawing attention to his dubious credentials as an employee of the G.O.P.-aligned Talon News site. Blogs like AMERICABLOG last week gleefully dug up gay-escort sites that feature Guckert, and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer admitted off-line that he looked into Guckert's partisanship as far back...
...machines and software that manages the diagnostic and other information that accompanies each image. It even posts the bill. Not ready to go fully digital? No problem: Kodak will sell you bridging devices--like laser printers to transfer the picture to film. The company also provides consulting services, putting KOS into operation to make patient care more efficient. The ultimate goal: to set up information networks for hospitals and entire hospital systems. Kodak says the digital component of its health-care business grew 20% last year...
...KOS may be helping put some of the shine back on Kodak's prospects, but its hometown, Rochester, is hurting. It has borne the brunt of the company's downsizing, as Carp has sought cheaper manufacturing abroad. Most of the company's digital cameras are now made in China. In Rochester's northwest, the 2,200-acre Kodak Park, once the hub of Kodak's industrial operations, is full of vacant lots and demolished buildings. At its peak in 1982, the firm--once called the Great Yellow Father--employed more than 60,000 people in the city and had long...