Climate groups look post-Bush (csmonitor.com)
This week, a coalition of scientific societies and university organizations is slated to hand the Obama and McCain campaigns detailed steps and budget estimates for improving America’s ability to monitor and forecast climate trends and severe weather. Thi
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Denver (Truthdig)
Until now, the political Establishment has ignored the West. At best, the region has been treated as a colony to be exploited by East Coast industrialists and West Coast white-flighters. More often, it is portrayed as American Siberia, with celebrity blowhards occasionally dropping in to pen patronizing stories mimicking zoological travelogues.
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Drilling Deeper
The Department of Energy estimates that it would take more than 20 years for either production levels or prices to be affected by a repeal of the ban on offshore drilling. Because the amount of oil at stake is so tiny (about 19 billion barrels, equivalent to around seven months of global consumption), it won't do much at all to ease jitters or help deflate a bubble in oil markets.
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Hail to the Twitterer (NYTimes.com)
Big surprise: a lot of smarty-pants computer types have been snickering at John McCain lately.
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Harry Shearer on Political Satire - TIME
Harry Shearer, the comedian, writer, actor (This Is Spinal Tap) and ubiquitous voice on The Simpsons, ventures into political satire in his new album, Songs of the Bushmen (Courgette Records). The CD takes musical potshots at Administration figures ranging from Condi Rice to Karl Rove, but what has got at least some people upset is its cover: the President with a bone through his nose, an image that prompted radio and billboard powerhouse Clear Channel to ban billboard ads for the album. Shearer talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the controversy, the state of political satire and the chances for a Spinal Tap reunion.
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Ed Tech as an Election Issue
Urging the presidential candidates to make K-12 student access to education technology and modern learning environments a top national priority, leading education association have launched a public service announcement campaign titled One Giant Leap for Kids.
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the National Education Association (NEA) and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) designed the PSA to drive home the message that making investments in technology today is critical to ensuring the ability of U.S. students to compete and succeed in the 21st century global workforce.
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NBC remembers Russert on first 'Meet the Press' since his death
The most influential journalist of my adult life
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
from a 1958 Atlantic article on Burma (People of the Golden Land)
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle"
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