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Virginia's scenic, rolling Piedmont is rich in presidential history - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe all made their homes there. The land is also rich in uranium. But the state has had a moratorium on mining the nuclear fuel since 1982. Now, a group of landowners in rural Pittsylvania County is looking to make a fortune by digging up the ore, and, with talk of nuclear energy making a comeback following last summer's sky-high gas prices, the state is thinking about giving its blessing. The Virginia Commission on Coal and Energy is preparing to undertake...
...definition of capitalism is somewhat unorthodox: the system that allows poorer people to have the comforts only rich people once had. In the not-so-distant future, parents will be able to buy their children an education produced under the same competitive stresses that gave us cheap LCD televisions, the iPhone, Lipitor, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Block-heads paint the public schools as a sacred cow, vouchers as undemocratic, and unionized public school teachers as modern heroes. Were trains so holy that today there are no planes? Was cotton so consecrated that we lack polyester? Likewise, the monopoly local middle...
...evening of February 9, a landmark building in the Beijing skyline, the Television Cultural Center, was consumed by fire just a few weeks ahead of its grand opening. Ironically, fireworks celebrating the end of the Chinese New Year were responsible for starting the blaze. In a sad spectacle rich with historical metaphors, it was as if the old Chinese spirit rebelled against the tyranny of the glass and metal skyscraper behemoths now being erected across China...
...Americans are seldom familiar with the personal elements of Islam. “Muslim societies have been perceived in the media as one dimensional,” Asani says. “But there are many other dimensions, such as art, literature, music and poetry, which create a very rich mosaic rarely portrayed.” This mosaic is what these photographs begin to reveal. “I was struck by how well [the photographs] were selected to portray at least three important themes of peace, passion, and submission. These themes are of course central in Sufi thought...
Bachmann, Rep. Michele • concern of that "we're running out of rich people in this country...