Posted on March 26, 2008 by Amy
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the lack of newspaper reporters consistently following the presidential candidates on the road, and where the day-to-day news is coming from now.
As most people have heard, newspapers have been taking financial hits in the last few years, with concerns over readership in the era of the [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Graison
Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman officially announced his reelection campaign to the U.S. Senate today in a campaign that will be closely watched as one of the most contested this election cycle. Coleman currently serves as the state’s senior Senator and was elected in 2002, just eleven days after his challenger, then incumbent Senator Paul [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Amy
Continuing the trend of terrifying posts about the world’s glaciers disappearing, a massive part of Antarctica’s ice collapsed and disintegrated into the ocean. The 160 square miles of ice is roughly seven times the size of Manhattan and is part of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about 1,500 years old. The remaining part of [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Graison
The Indiana primary is more important than it looks on paper. The Hoosier state will elect seventy two pledged delegates in its May 6 primary, totaling 187 delegates when combined with North Carolina’s delegates that are up for grabs the same day (nineteen more than Pennsylvania’s April 22nd primary will award). And while [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Graison
NBC news reported tonight on a new academic program taking root in American universities: the sustainability major. Combining elements of architecture, engineering and urban planning, its curriculum prepares students to solve problems of scarce resources with environmentally-viable solutions. Here’s their primer on the subject; more content is available on msnbc.com’s video player.
And here’s [...]
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