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...Climate Project brings a personal element to groups that may have never encountered the film, says Kalee Kreider, Gore's communications director. "The trainees have given his version of the slide show more times than Vice President Gore," Kredier adds. "That's really the goal for them, to reach down in where the movie and Vice President Gore cannot reach...
...among whom I recovered from battle wounds as an embedded reporter in Baghdad three years ago. The exercise equipment we had at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington was old, the therapy wards and gyms overcrowded. There was no "flowrider" to help rebuild abdominal muscles in a water slide, nor laser gun studio to regain digital function by firing M4 replicas against video images. We made do with the best the government had to offer...
Leathers, whose boyhood passion for multistory treehouses led him to become an architect, stumbled into the swing-and-slide business in 1970, when he helped build a play area for his children's school in Ithaca, N.Y. That effort took 15 weekends, but the community spirit engendered by the all-volunteer project exhilarated Leathers so much that he made it a specialty of his practice. Today six of his associates work fulltime on designing and building playgrounds, which generally go up in four or five days and cost anywhere from $2,500 to $45,000, about one-third the usual...
...center of the country's long-term economic future and Labor's historical devotion to fairness: "If the 19th century was driven by an industrial revolution, and the 20th century by a technological revolution, what is needed for the 21st century is an education revolution." Rudd pointed to a slide in workers' productivity. A decade ago, Australians' output was at 85% of U.S. levels; by 2005 it had dropped to 79%. Rudd argued that the country lacked the skills to prosper in an economic era when the main action would switch to Asia and would be dominated by knowledge enterprises...
...Each of the two e-mails quoted above made their way to members of the Harvard College Democrats last week. They were each sent by friends and relatives back home who were apparently unwilling to watch their kin slide freely into Harvard’s pinko leftist abyss...