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19 Mar 09

SMARTHINKING Adds New Subjects, Hours for Real-Time Online Tutoring

  • SMARTHINKING unveils its expanded services after a banner year for the company. For the 2006 Academic Year, SMARTHINKING signed a record 42 new clients, with more than 20 of those clients signed since September.
18 Mar 09

"Gut Reaction" - NPR

Overeating Can Impair Body Function

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Rove in civvies isn't such an ugly sight

  • Fitzgerald, by not indicting Rove, may have saved the Democrats from getting too caught up in the politics of vengeance. There was always an analogy to Madame Defarge sitting by the guillotine knitting in the way that Bush haters reveled in every unreliable rumor about a Rove indictment.
  • Vendettas may be emotionally satisfying, but they rarely provide a formula for winning elections. In fact, the best way to get back at Rove is not through criminal prosecution but by forcing him to read an Election Night speech conceding that the Democrats have won back Congress.
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Salon answers its critics

  • Salon will continue to try to get to the bottom of charges of election theft in Ohio, but we don't think the available facts prove the election was stolen. We also think unproven claims of theft weaken Democrats' credibility and keep them from the work needed to build an electoral majority, as well as to reform the broken voting system that is at least one obstacle to that majority.

The Evil of Banality - Salon Books

  • "A new biography confirms that Colin Powell went along with the Iraq war because he was following orders. The tragic irony of the good soldier is that he deserted the people he was trying to protect." Article by Gary Kamiya. Sort of a review of Karen DeYoung's biography of Colin Powell, tho' Kamiya draws conclusions about Powell that DeYoung herself doesn't draw. It's not clear what in this article is Kamiya's opinion and what is DeYoung's. Still, an interesting composite interpretation of Colin Powell, one of the most tragic figures in the history of American diplomacy. - krissanthesquad on 2006-10-12

Daily Kos: The OTHER Scandal Hastert Doesn't Want Voters Talking About


  • The actual location of the property has been the subject of debate--some say it's about 5 miles away from the proposed Parkway, others say it's closer to 3.  Either way, the fact remains that Hastert's land--or rather, Hastert himself---benefited greatly from the Prairie Parkway pork barrel appropriation.  


    Indeed, it was just three months after the bill was passed that Hastert sold the property.  Hastert maintains, of course, that the location of his property had nothing to do with his earmark efforts.

What George Tenet really knew about Iraq - Salon.com

  • But getting out of Iraq will not be easy, and the necessary first step is to find the civic courage to insist on knowing how we got in.
26 Mar 07

Wagging the Big Dog - Joe Conason - Salon.com

  • Both McCain and Mehlman ignored the central achievement of the Clinton policy, which was to maintain monitoring of Pyongyang's plutonium supply for eight years -- and thus prevent the building of plutonium bombs or the transfer of those materials to other states or terrorist organizations. The North Koreans started a secret uranium enrichment program precisely because they could not use reprocessed plutonium to build weapons under the 1994 Agreed Framework. Since the Bush administration cast aside that process in 2002, Kim's scientists have been freed from the scrutiny of international inspection.
25 Jul 06

One nation under law -- not Bush Salon.com

  • John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote the torture memo, objected that "what the court is doing is attempting to suppress creative thinking ... It could affect every aspect of the war on terror."
  • Some members of Congress have specifically objected to the implications of the Court's reliance on Common Article 3, and have suggested that they might try to undo it. Sen. Graham has complained that the Court's ruling might make our soldiers liable for war crimes. But if American soldiers commit war crimes, they should be held responsible.
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25 Jun 06

Brain Study Looks at Autism Factors

  • Links to a video about Dr. Mirella Dapretto's study at the UCLA Semel Institute. This study focuses on autistic children's recognition of emotions. Not suprisingly, the part of the brain that processes emotion in normal children does not light up in autistic children shown pics representing other people's emotions.

    This is just one of many features of autism, though. Moreover, this study looks at autism as a dysfunction, but does not ask questions about the phenomenal abilities many autistic people seem to possess. The study seems premissed on the assumption that autism is "caused" by an "event" in the child's experience. It does not allow for the possibility that rather than being a neurological "problem," autism may be a neurological "difference."     - krissanthesquad on 2006-06-25
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