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Perhaps this is merely the march of progress and my lamentation will go down as a typically shortsighted protest against change, akin to doomsday predictions about the Internet, Twitter, or texting. But just wait ’til the day when you open up your Facebook to see that you...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Whose Facebook is it anyway? | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

Houghton added that prior to the creation of the work team, Allston residents only had access to community relations officials, an approach he called “ineffective and shortsighted.”

Author: By Elias J. Groll, Sofia E. Groopman, and William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust Seeks Trust on Allston Plans | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Democrats say that they consider this bill along the lines of (and much cheaper than) President George W. Bush's emergency war supplemental bills, which totaled trillions of dollars and were mostly unpaid for. "We really believe that unemployment situation is an emergency economic situation," Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Republicans Want Another Benefits Filibuster? | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Klein does well to remind us that President Obama is a straightforward man who mistrusts sycophancy. The infuriating state of U.S. politics stems not from the President's performance thus far, but rather from the selfish, shortsighted opposition he often faces. Contrary to Mr. Klein's conclusions, however, it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of the White House | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

A healthy and robust space program generates not just national esteem and extraordinary people but other developments as well, including the discovery of global warming, smoke detectors, and bar codes. And if one takes a long-term view of civilization, human expansion in our solar system is as inevitable as...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin | Title: Elegy for the Future | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

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