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...climate. Plants in the U.S. that burn this low-cost, high-carbon fuel account for about 40% of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions, not to mention other air pollutants. Right now there are about 600 coal power plants in the U.S., and an additional 110 are in various stages of development. Without ways to capture the carbon burned in coal and sequester it underground, new plants all but guarantee billions of tons of future carbon emissions and essentially negate efforts to reduce global warming. "Business as usual can't continue as long as coal is destroying the climate," says...
DIED With her 1980 work, The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson helped pull together various emerging countercultural strains--including alternative birthing centers and the exploration of altered states of consciousness--into what soon after became Known as the New Age movement. In her book, she remarked, "We are entering a millennium of love and light--in the words of the popular song 'The Age of Aquarius,' the time of 'the mind's true liberation."' Before the book's release, Ferguson published a monthly newsletter titled Brain/Mind Bulletin, reporting on new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience...
...current exit poll system uses a careful methodology that includes sampling voters during various periods of the day (certain demographic groups tend to vote at different times) and conducting telephone surveys of those who voted early or by absentee ballots. The pollsters for this year's election also say they are making an effort to ensure the organization's more than 1,000 surveyors are diverse - in previous elections, surveyors tended to be young, and presumably attracted younger participants (who are more likely to be Democratic). The questionnaires are filled out anonymously and deposited into boxes, which pollsters say helps...
...data and actual returns to decide when to announce winners. So even though all the networks have access to the same exit poll data, they often don't broadcast projections at the same time. During the primary season, the networks used exit poll data to slice the electorate into various demographic groups - giving viewers proof, for example, of Barack Obama's strength over Hillary Clinton among black voters and Clinton's popularity among older voters. These tidbits help fill airtime when networks have exit poll data, but can't release figures on who's winning until polls are closed...
...first-time and minority voters. The tactics, the officials said, seemed suspiciously similar across more than a dozen states. "We're surprised at how ubiquitous it's become, and how sophisticated it's become," Greenbaum said, though he said he didn't have any evidence of coordination behind the various communications...