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...Edward Humes makes clear in his new book Eco-Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet, a high income-tax bracket gives the rich another advantage: a platform on which they can advance the causes that matter to them. And believe it or not, a surprising number of super-wealthy Americans are using their money to fight for what Humes calls "a secret plan to save the earth." (See the top 10 green stories...
...this country,” Ambinder added. Douthat declined to comment, saying that his blogpost about his new position—in which he thanked The Times “for taking an awfully big chance”—would be his only statement on the matter...
Media Cloud plans to make much of its data available to the public and to release the code that runs the content database so that the Web site can serve as a research platform for scholars studying the subject matter, said Hal M. Roberts, the technical architect of the Web site and self-identified “geek in residence” at the Berkman Center...
...Best Practices & Research: Clinical Rheumatology” retracted last year. The retraction came after a data-comparison search engine found that about half the text of the article was taken verbatim from a paper published in 2003. Though he had not spoken directly with Simon about the matter, Simon M. Helfgott, a rheumatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that he believed Simon had intimated to others that the paper had been written by a third party before he himself signed off on it. “Unfortunately for him, that is not a defense that...
...Which once again argues for knuckling down on the banking issue, because that's a matter of unquestioned urgency. Political opportunists will no doubt jockey to claim credit or place blame, but ultimately everyone is looking to the Administration for leadership in this area, and only ideologues will grumble if Obama manages to find a way through it. The President and his team were elected to fix the economy, a senior Republican acknowledges, but the electorate is less clear, he argues, on the rest of the Obama agenda...