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There are swing states. There are bellwether states. And then there is Vermont...
...have a plethora of comparison points on the political issues of the day. But as we look toward November with both parties eyeing potential swing voters, sides are beginning to blur. How can we tell the parties apart these days? Perhaps tribal signifiers won't rest on positions vis-a-vis Iraq or universal healthcare. Instead, our true colors might come out when we examine what we do on the Web. Do blue state Web surfers prefer visiting tennis sites while red staters prefer golf? There are ways to find...
...tasks that used to be an integral part of getting out and being human.During the 2006 holiday season media blitz, I remember one network’s coverage of the Nintendo Wii. The anchors were testing the product and going nuts over it: “Look! When you swing the Wii remote, the tennis racket actually swings! And there’s a ‘swoosh’ sound!” People were raving about the novel idea that video games didn’t need to be completely sedentary activities. The network then...
Next year the Texas State Board of Education will be writing the science curriculum standards for Texas public schoolchildren, and Huckabee may bring enough conservative fundamentalist voters to the polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
...Harvard women’s hockey team has lost only one game this season, a defeat at the hands of No. 2 New Hampshire on Dec. 14. After that, the Crimson went into full swing, steamrolling all of its opponents. For over two months, no team could even come within one goal of vanquishing Harvard.Until Friday night, that is.The perfect ECAC regular season for the Crimson (25-1-0, 21-0-0 ECAC) was on the line on Friday in Hamilton, N.Y. against Colgate. With the clock ticking down in the third period and the contest deadlocked...