Word: stanfords
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...Sotomayor, an Hispanic federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, immediately became the de facto frontrunner to replace him. Other names that have been proffered include Virginia Representative Bobby Scott, an African American being promoted by the Congressional Black Caucus, and former Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan, a lesbian being promoted by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund...
...study makes the case that ethanol isn't even the greenest way to use biomass as a fuel. In an article published in the May 8 issue of Science, researchers from the Carnegie Institution, Stanford University and the University of California-Merced (UCM) used life-cycle analysis - which takes into account the entire impact of a biofuel from field to vehicle - to show that converting biomass to electricity (to power electric cars) produces 80% more transportation energy than turning it into ethanol (to power a flex-fuel car), with a carbon footprint that is half as small. (Bioelectricity is created...
...Stanford Students "Have Rice at Dinner...
...clever headline by The Stanford Daily News. Kind of. When former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice dined with students at Stanford, they said they had a positive experience speaking with her--though several students also protested outside on the lawn, arguing that she should be prosecuted for "war crimes" such as "authorizing torture and waging aggressive war in Iraq...
...Having steered clear of the recent furor over President Obama's release of the so-called torture memos, the former Secretary of State weighed in with two public pronouncements in quick succession. Asked about waterboarding during a dorm visit with students at Stanford University, where she is now a political science professor, she said that "by definition if it was authorized by the President," the controversial technique was legal. The sound bite, with its inadvertent (and unfortunate) Nixonian resonance, raised eyebrows on the right and hackles on the left...