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...provide the kind of complexity and depth you might get on a website like grist.org, where greener-than-thou commenters will dissect the minutiae of a carbon tax. Instead, it's to offer simplicity. That's on display in one of the site's more innovative features, "Translating Uncle Sam," in which MNN's bloggers take raw data from government websites - whose comprehensiveness is eclipsed only by their impenetrability - and put it into user-friendly terms. Given the way people twist data, knotting them like Atlanta traffic, in environmental debates - especially those about global warming - this is a genuinely valuable...
...cable companies stop broadcasting analog signals on Feb. 17 and render obsolete the millions of rabbit ears used on old TV sets. Some TV manufacturers, like Sony, are offering free take-back programs, but if you really want to be e-green, try this: get a coupon from Uncle Sam for a discounted digital converter, and don't upgrade your old TV (or phone or computer) for a little while longer. It may not be in the generous holiday spirit, but it certainly fits the new recessionary...
...wonderful capacity to deal with crucial topics,” Rosovsky said of Huntington, who wrote 17 books over the course of his academic career. “In many ways, I think academic achievement is very much related to choosing the right subject, and Sam was incredibly good at that...
1863Well-known Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast - who also popularized the Uncle Sam image - draws a red-coated, white-bearded Santa Claus for the very first time. Later Nast drawings will reveal Santa's workshop and home at the North Pole...
...take questions, but minutes later two of his attorneys came out to take some from reporters. One of them, Sam Adam, Jr., reiterated the governor's intention to remain in office, but allowed that Blagojevich could step aside if the pressures of defending himself against U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's charges became too heavy for him to complete his work. "If the people of Illinois suffer, he will step aside," said Adam...