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...half-century, Buckley, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, was chief spokesman for the signal political phenomenon of late 20th century America: the rise of conservatism. The son of an oilman, he leveraged his wealth with energy, passion and cheerful relentlessness. He wrote books laying out the conservative worldview; launched a magazine, National Review, to nurture and promote it; and created one of the longest-running shows in public-television history, Firing Line, to broadcast his views to millions...
...article notes that there is a considerable discrepancy between the number of entering freshmen who declare the intention to enroll in the life sciences and the number of students who actually do so. This striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational phenomenon; it is certainly not specific to Harvard. A nationwide study of 115,300 Life Sciences undergraduates reported in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators (2008) found that 51 percent of students entering university intending to major in the life sciences switched out of the life...
...eruption. Two days before Lusi started, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the city of Yogyakarta, about 190 miles (300 km) to the west of Porong. Lapindo believes that the quake opened natural fractures that allowed the mud to escape. "The mud eruption is caused by a natural phenomenon," Teryana says. That's an opinion shared by Adriano Mazzini, a geologist at the University of Oslo. After studying data provided by Lapindo, Mazzini concluded that Lusi was probably caused by the May 27 earthquake. "There is strong evidence for a naturally triggered event," he says. Davies believes that if the eruption...
...Tiananmen Square” under China’s censored Wikipedia site and you’ll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the locale’s architecture). Restriction of freedom of expression through such form of media censorship is no new phenomenon; it has been justified on the grounds that certain information is dangerous and can have adverse affects upon the minds of those exposed to it. Musharraf and other government leaders, however, would do well to remember the words of John Milton, penned in 1643 in a treatise against British censorship...
...Although much of this Obama-obsession has been a grassroots phenomenon, out of Obama’s control—as in the case of Ron Paul—the Obama campaign has done little to quell the tide of Obama hero-worship and Hillary bashing. Indeed, they have at times encouraged it. For example, Michelle Obama recently said that she would “have to think about” supporting Hillary, if she emerged as the Democratic candidate, a statement which bordered on treason from the perspective of the Democratic Party. The campaign also sent out the Black...