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...Other than a bit of campaign sniping between America's two most influential women - Clinton, in Des Moines on Friday: "Change is just a word if you don't have the experience to back it up"; Winfrey, defending Obama Saturday: "We recognize that the amount of time you spend in Washington means nothing unless you're accountable for the judgments you made at the time you had them" - the weekend was gentle and apolitical. Winfrey tried to motivate the HyVee crowd, but she didn't talk policy so much as treat Obama like a favorite book; she raved about...
...candidates to fill that vacuum. He is one of the principal architects of the just released Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), an ambitious to-do list on global warming for the next Administration. PCAP calls on the next President to make climate change his or her signature issue, to spend the first 100 days in office preparing America for a post-carbon world, committing the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050. It's far grander than anything Congress or any Presidential candidate has proposed, but to Orr climate change is a threat on par with World...
What do you get when you spend over 400 hours brainstorming, 1,000 hours of research and planning, and six years of hard labor and work on a unique Z-shaped, architectural project? How about a check for $50,000 from Harvard’s Urban Planning and Design Department? On Dec. 5, architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were awarded this year’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner for their Seattle-based project, the Olympic Sculpture Park. As Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design...
...time when it is necessary: the increase in the prominence of fundamentalist faiths over the last decades alone makes Gomes’s book relevant. Gomes is right in his diagnosis of the church’s ailment as religion for the status quo, and he is right to spend much of his book pointing the way to the “good news” rather than criticizing the audience he could potentially reach. In his conclusion, he sums up his argument, stating: “If we read what Jesus says and see what he has done...
...have to run everything down. Everything is pursued, either preliminarily or we actually will open an investigation and throw a source in the middle of it," says Cummings, the FBI official. If the investigation comes up empty, it is closed, he says. "I don't have time to spend on garbage...