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...through Porterfield's 22,000-word investigation into the jumbled finances of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge if they read it on the Internet. Every piece of reporting is factual and accurate, and McSweeney's tendency toward honesty - the Congo is "confusing," the bridge's funds "impossible" to track - give it a we're-on-your-side tone rarely seen in print. Currently, none of its content can be found online. "The point is to have readers pay for what they read," says Eggers. "Imagine that...
Before the Obama Administration assumes that General Petraeus' track record in Iraq is transferable to Afghanistan, it should reflect more on a critical U.S. mistake in Vietnam. Much of the reason for the U.S. failure there can be traced to the assumption that General Edward Lansdale's successful approach to defeating the Philippine Huk insurgency would also work in Vietnam. Price Bingham, MELBOURNE...
...Before the Obama Administration assumes that General Petraeus' track record in Iraq is transferable to Afghanistan, it should reflect more on a critical U.S. mistake in Vietnam. Much of the reason for the U.S. failure there can be traced to the assumption that General Edward Lansdale's successful approach to defeating the Philippine Huk insurgency would also work in Vietnam. Price Bingham Melbourne...
...seems to be rising to the surface. Scores of steampunk novels were published this year. There are steampunk housewares and steampunk bands and Victorian-inflected steampunk fashions. There are 27 steampunk iPhone apps available on iTunes. Magazines like Steampunk and blogs like Brass Goggles and the Heliograph track the scene. A museum in Oxford, England, is currently holding an exhibition of steampunk art. The steampunk meet-up at last summer's Comic-Con in San Diego was mobbed. In late October, Seattle hosted Steamcon, its first annual steampunk convention...
...July 2008, the school went smoke-free in accordance with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, violations of which can result in a $50 fine. But so far, the university has ticketed only about 25 offenders. "Our campus is about 1,800 acres, so to think that we could keep track of who is smoking on campus at any given time isn't really feasible," says Joni Troester, director of the university's campus wellness program. Instead, the school helps those trying to kick the habit by offering smoking-cessation programs and providing reimbursement for nicotine patches, gum and prescription medications...