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There was one part of the speech, however, that no green could fault: Obama's call for the creation of a high-speed rail system as a way to generate green jobs, enhance economic productivity and reduce carbon emissions. On Thursday, Jan. 28, the White House announced the awarding of $8 billion in stimulus funding to kick-start high-speed-rail projects and improve service in 13 corridors across the country. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Tampa, Fla., to announce the projects, which include the construction of an 84-mile high-speed track from Tampa to Orlando...
Wittman, the son of former NBA player and head coach Randy Wittman, is second in the conference in points per game with 18.2, and, as of Thursday, ranked 12th in the country in three pointers made, with 62. The two players are the heavy frontrunners for Ivy League Player of the Year; Wittman has won Ivy player of the week five times, while Lin has done so three times...
...study, published Thursday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, looked at data from two long-term population-based studies and found that adults who were overweight had an average 13% lower risk of death from any cause over 10 years, compared with those who were of normal weight. Those who were underweight were 76% more likely to die, while the obese had the same mortality risk as those of normal weight. Researchers also found that being sedentary increased the risk of death in men by 28%; in women, the risk was doubled. (See how exercise can help aging...
Ehrlich, who graduated from Harvard in December 2009, arrived in Spain last Thursday to play for the Valencia Firebats, a professional football team in Valencia...
...marathon brawl at the top of France's conservative political establishment took another dramatic turn Thursday when a Paris court cleared former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of charges he orchestrated a smear campaign to scuttle fellow conservative and arch-enemy Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential hopes. De Villepin's acquittal will allow him to redouble his opposition to Sarkozy - and claim he survived the president's attempt to eliminate him with a trumped-up court case...