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Palin has a predictably homespun answer. "As the mother of five, I know how to multitask," said the governor in a recent statement. But it's clear that Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, 46, will pick up a number of executive functions while Palin - midway through a four-year gubernatorial term - multitasks elsewhere...
...primary took place Aug. 26, and the most recent vote count had Parnell behind by just 239 votes. A recount is likely but if Parnell loses - and John McCain and Sarah Palin win in November - then he would serve out the remaining two years of Palin's term. If Parnell triumphs, then next in line for the Alaska statehouse is attorney general Talis Colberg, a 2007 Palin appointee...
...human health and disease. In light of its early and unchallenged success, the Broad Institute will now transition to a permanent non-profit organization, with both Harvard and MIT continuing to help govern it. Lander said that the nature of a permanent endowment will allow for tackling long-term problems with “10-year horizons or longer.” “This is about an expansion in time,” Lander said. “The goal is to put this endowment away for a period of years so when the gift [from the Broads...
...presidential nominee John McCain shocked the nation by naming Sarah Palin his choice for vice president.Since her selection, the Alaskan governor has dominated news cycles, conversations, and internet searches—Google Trends reveals that “Sarah Palin” has become a far more popular search term than “Barack Obama,” “John McCain,” “Joe Biden,” or even that true American hero, “Michael Phelps.” Sarah Palin, and her hard line conservative stances on everything from...
...soccer moms" who responded to Bill Clinton's small-bore initiatives and rescued his presidency. The white female vote was crucial to George W. Bush's victory in 2004, a year that was marked by the post-9/11 political emergence of the so-called security mom - a term, interestingly enough, coined by Joe Biden, the man who is now Obama's running mate. But where 55% of white women voted for Bush in 2004, only 50% voted for Republican candidates in the 2006 midterm elections, which was one of the reasons the party lost both houses of Congress...