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Siptroth said he fears that leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike sets a precedent to allow future governors to put other state assets, like state parks and forests, in jeopardy to finance future initiatives the state does not have the resources for.

There is a memory-improving pill available now: Centrophenoxine. It’s not available in the US because the patent has expired and it’s quite cheap, so there’s no incentive for any drug company to get it approved in the US. The US pharmaceutical system is set up for drug-company profits as the highest priority. Centrophenoxine can be ordered from European companies, however.

The four-hour workday prediction didn’t take into account the capitalist system and suppression of unions. Corporations kept the same workday and kept all increases in productivity as profits for investors.

I predict 2048 will be a much gloomier era, since most of the oil will have been used up by then. (We’ve just reached the halfway point, and it will cost more to get the remaining oil. Google “hubbert peak”.) It’s hard to see how mass die-offs can be prevented in the next 40 years, as the (expanding) population is unsustainable with the dwindling oil supply. (Some have suggested the world’s elite (Google “Bilderberg Society”) have plans to forcibly reduce the world’s population by 80% before this happens.)

Plant life produces oil from carbon dioxide in the air, water, and sunlight. In 2048 I predict this mechanism will be reproduced synthetically, and there will be oil factories, but research into this will be delayed by oil corporations that want to get every last cent of profit from oil pumped from the ground. The synthetically-produced oil will be too little too late to help humanity.

Recycling will become crucial in the coming decades as we go through the limited supply of natural resources. I predict in 2048 robots will be mining the landfills of 20th-century garbage for raw materials such as metals.

In 2048 the corporate takeover of the world’s democracies will be complete. Civil liberties will be a quaint idea from a simpler time. Corporations and governments will merge as only political parties financed by corpor

The four student teams were asked to provide advice to Apex in three areas: government relations, consumer relations, and operational and employee relations. They had five days to analyze the case and prepare an oral presentation for a panel of judges. Judges from business included Laurel Delaney, Global Trade; Tess Morrison, International Trade Center; and Sri Ramamoorti, Ernst & Young. Three faculty also judged the presentations: Werner Baer, economics; George Pinteris, finance, and Madhu Viswanathan, business administration. (l-r in photo at right: Viswanathan, Pinteris, Delaney, Baer, Morrison, Finnerty, Ranamoorti)

Hezbollah’s brief takeover of Beirut led to brutal counterattacks in northern Lebanon, where Sunni Muslims deeply resented the Shiite militant group’s display of power. The violence energized radical Sunni factions, including some affiliated with Al Qaeda, and extremist Sunni Web sites across the Arab world have been buzzing with calls for a jihad to avenge the wounded pride of Lebanese Sunnis.

About 20 percent of all U.S. heads-of-household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access, according to a study released earlier this week.

That was part of a broader Defense Department media program that included the blogger roundtables, and which looked for “surrogates” to whom Pentagon talking points could be fed.

The Bush administration has been caught violating the propaganda ban before, notably in 2005 in the case of radio host Armstrong Williams, who was paid to endorse President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law.

Particularly abhorrent to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which oversees compliance with the ban, is an agency’s use of “covert propaganda” or “covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties.”

Thursday night, the Senate cast a near-unanimous vote to reverse the Federal Communication Commission's December 2007 decision to let media companies own both a major TV or radio station and a major daily newspaper in the same city.

Anti-war Democrats, who normally would lose the vote due to Republican support, outvoted a minority of Republicans, including Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, and moderate Democrats voting in support.