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...sitting alone in a room with a clock, turning on a tape recorder, and starting to speak into it. Speak about anything you want - with the proviso that your topic, and your opinions on it, must be of interest to some group of strangers who you imagine will be listening to the tape. Naturally, in order to be even minimally interesting, your remarks should be intelligible and their reasoning sequential - a listener will have to be able to follow the logic of what you're saying - which means that you will have to know enough about your topic to organize...
...bounce my ideas off of,” said Pooley, a former managing editor of Fortune Magazine. Prospective fellows are chosen by a selection committee headed by Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones. Jones said the committee considers both the applicants’ career background and intended research topic when selecting the fellows. “The fellowship program is so prestigious, I was happy to even get to apply,” said Edward Schumacher-Matos, the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal Americas and a former Buenes Aires bureau chief for The New York Times. Schumacher-Matos...
...greenhouse gas emissions miraculously plummet next year, we would not expect to see a big change in disaster losses. So it's important to stay focused on the real cause of the problem, says Pielke. "Talking about land-use policies in coastal Mississippi may not be the sexiest topic, but that's what's going to make the most difference on this issue," he says...
...worked in the White House. Because the book takes place primarily in Wisconsin, I ordered 1960s Wisconsin yearbooks off eBay, and I interviewed people from Wisconsin. For the Princeton stuff I talked to Princeton librarians. And I interviewed friends and family members who I thought had expertise on any topic that might be relevant to the book...
...they're continuing to query "Obama Antichrist" at all. One simple way to understand searcher intent is to analyze, in aggregate, which of the search results people tend to click on. After searching for "Obama Antichrist," people, predictably, tend to go to a blog dedicated to the topic and political blogs commenting on the McCain ad and its connection to the theory. But the most visited search-result site was Snopes.com (16.7% of all visits), the go-to site for debunking urban legends...