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Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on Russia's far northwestern edge as a strategic window on Europe. On his way to this year's G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, President Bush will stop off at his own strategic window on Europe: Stralsund. If you've been to Stralsund, the question might be, Why? The town, once in East Germany, has a population of about 60,000 and is famous for a local berry drink that tastes like flat, bitter orange soda. All that matters to the President, though, is that Stralsund was once represented in the Bundestag...
...President Bush has created the world's largest protected marine area, dubbed the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument. It contains sea life that has inspired some of our most breathtaking screen savers." JON STEWART...
President Bush last week created the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, the largest marine preserve in the world. It is 100 times as big as Yosemite and protects species like the Hawaiian monk seal, right, which should thank Laura Bush. She invited Jean-Michel Cousteau, Jacques's son, to the White House in April to screen a film on the islands. White House Council on Environmental Quality chairman James Connaughton says the President and Cousteau then talked ocean policy over supper (no fish) and into the night. Two months later--it usually takes two years--Bush made his proclamation...
...Atlantic, and so in London in 1643 there appeared “New England’s First Fruits”—“the first of countless public relations pamphlets and brochures,” according to Clarke L. Caywood, a public relations scholar at Northwestern University. The 26-page brochure extols Harvard’s first president, Henry Dunster: “Over the Colledge is master Dunster placed, as President, a learned, conscionable and industrious man, who hath so trained up his Pupills in the tongues and Arts, and so seasoned them with...
...line between public and private is blurry to many youths, who see MySpace as a safe haven. Justine Cassell, a psychologist at Northwestern University, says, "Kids have an egocentrism. They believe they can see others and others can't see them." Trench isn't sure the logic is that complex. "I hate to insult kids," he says, "but they don't think...