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Greenville's geek-savvy campaign was a fast operation too; it came together in less than 14 days. Highlights included a YouTube channel and a cartoon with instructions on how to participate in the glow-stick event (plus a tout for the town as the birthplace of a co-inventor of the laser, which gave rise to fiber optics). "We're a city in the midst of reinventing itself as a tech community, and we think Google Fiber could really help," says Aaron von Frank, the baby-faced 31-year-old tech developer who spearheaded the effort to get Google...
...standards that would promote conservative takes on controversial issues in the pages of the state's textbooks. The changes, expected to win final approval in May, include an increased emphasis on and sympathetic treatment of such Republican touchstones as the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority. They also tout the superiority of capitalism and the role of Christianity in the nation's founding. Even Thomas Jefferson's profile will be diminished; some board members were less than fond of his ideas about the separation of church and state...
...latest attempt to win over congressional naysayers and push his signature policy initiative over the finish line, President Obama took to the stump March 8 to tout the Democrats' proposed health care overhaul with some of his signature "Yes, we can" fire. "They've argued now is not the time for reform," he said of his critics, slamming analysts who say a push for health care could come at the expense of the Democratic majority in the November elections. "My question to them is: When is the right time? If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama also...
...textile company in his district. But these threats, sweetheart deals and rule-bending votes were long forgotten by the next elections. Seniors adore the Medicare Prescription Drug plan, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has declared CAFTA a success. If health reform passes, Democrats will be able to tout a number of immediate benefits, including a ban on preexisting exclusions for children and discounts on prescriptions drugs for seniors. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...Cold War is over, and Israel and its allies in the West now tout the Jewish state as an ally in the so-called war on terror. But in fact, the militant Palestinian and Lebanese groups engaged in a territorial war with Israel are the sworn enemies of the al-Qaeda-inspired radical extremists who are at war with the West. In the struggle against Islamic extremism, Israel risks becoming less of an asset to America and more of a liability. The Obama White House, recognizing that the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict is a recruiting tool for radical Islam...