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...MINUTEMAN BRAWL at Columbia on Wednesday night gathered even more steam over the weekend, with Fox News taking on the protest as a cause célèbre and President Lee Bollinger attempting to stem the fallout. For those following this story closely (catch up here, if not), there's some new must-see video...
...which had at one point mobilized hundreds of students, impelled prosecutors to push for two hate-crime convictions, and prompted a dean to pledge that administrators “are not sweeping this under the rug”—ended quietly last week, having lost its steam after 17 months of legal sluggishness...
...Britain's New Labour. And to judge from the waterfall of "bold, radical" policy ideas that spouted during the week from baby-faced ministers[an error occurred while processing this directive] such as David Miliband and James Purnell, the party's next generation of leaders has plenty of steam. That was the upbeat side of Labour's annual conference last week in Manchester. But its evil twin lurked close by. Delegates seemed afflicted with a cocktail of maladies that until recently were Conservative diseases: feuding, plotting, depression, exhaustion. Almost 10 years in power is a long time...
...Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even a line like “I love you to the max” was total, front-on honest, and the shockingly tight musicianship drove all that honesty like an old-timey steam-train to our hearts.Lyrics are the also the stock-and-trade of the third superstar on our list: John Darnielle, aka The Mountain Goats. His set was perfect. Fans got to hear unbelievably obscure nuggets like “Lady from Shanghai,” casual listeners were taught the words...
...most common technique for producing hydrogen is known steam reformation. In this process, natural gas is heated with water at high pressures, yielding hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide, which is converted to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus, because carbon dioxide is a waste product, hydrogen cars recreate the same problem that they are advertised to sidestep: greenhouse gas emissions, which the balance of scientific evidence suggests lead to global warming. More environmentally friendly methods of generating hydrogen, such as coaxing bacteria to turn water alone into hydrogen, are still largely in the exploratory phase...