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...other point: we have learned from our earthquakes and fires and have become world leaders in life-safety procedures. Our willingness to prepare for and face disasters - and to kick partisan politics to the curb for the duration - is probably the best testimony to the California spirit. Linda Mele, Torrance, Calif...
...bottles and flower leis litter the crunchy black rock at the feet of an elderly woman in a bright red mumu dress singing an ancient mele. Her voice echoes to the bottom of the deep and dormant Halemaumau Crater, the sacred centerpiece of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the home of Pele, the feared and revered Hawaiian volcano goddess (gin being her favorite, fiery drink). Tourists in shorts stop and stare at the scene, their heads bowed down in geological reverence. (See pictures of volcanoes...
...addition, Nicco Mele, founder of Internet consulting company EchoDitto, will serve as a visiting Murrow lecturer, the position Schwartz held this fall. Mele, who was an IOP fellow last semester, will teach a class about the power of digital media...
...Every morning but Christmas Day Obama has worked out at the facility, pausing afterward to greet the service members and their friends and family who gather near his motorcade to take pictures and shake his hand. On Christmas Eve, Obama greeted the crowd outside the gym with a hearty "Mele Kalikimaka!," Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas...
...Obama campaign’s mobilization of the youth vote was complemented, and perhaps in part generated, by its Web savvy and sophisticated use of online organizing tools, the fellows said. “The Internet is a tremendously collaborative, engaging media,” said Nicco A. Mele, the former chief of Howard Dean’s Web operations and the founder and president of EchoDitto. “It has a central and critical role in this coming administration.” Mele cited Obama’s e-mail database, which contains over 10 million e-mail...