Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists
A revolutionary device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power for the entire world, scientists claim.
By Jasper Copping
Last Updated: 2:39PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists. Existing technologies require an average current of five or six […]
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Image: Boston Globe Photo Gallery(Melanie Conner/National Science Foundation)
Bush Aides Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 29, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the […]
Guerra Reveals Evidence
Wednesday , November 26, 2008 Posted: 07:14 PM
Guerra unveils why his investigation led him to the Vice President
WILLACY COUNTY - District Attorney Juan Guerra says his investigation took him all the way to the top, to the Vice President of the United States. He showed NEWSCHANNEL 5 records that he says could be […]
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From the sewers of Stamford comes…
THE RAT
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Capitol Briefing
Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates
By Paul Kane
Here’s a story of the Thanksgiving spirit, forgiving and forgetting senatorial style.
When Democrats gathered last week to decide the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a pair of senators-elect, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of […]
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Hamdan To Be Sent To Yemen
Bin Laden Driver Spent 7 Years at Guantanamo
By Josh White and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; Page A01
The U.S. military has decided to transfer Osama bin Laden’s former driver from custody at Guantanamo Bay to his home in Yemen, ending the seven-year saga of a man the […]
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Novemeber 24, 2008
NRA Propaganda At Nation’s Largest Gun Show: Obama Is An ‘Enemy Of Your Gun Rights’
Since Barack Obama’s election, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other pro-gun groups have been warning that the new president will take away their second amendment rights. This multi-million dollar campaign is already having effects. Not only is the […]
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(Image) (Cico photo) via humanproductivitylab.com; (Bush) via huffingtonpost.com (bare legs) frugalyankee.com
The story is here.
Nate Silver’s ability to crunch numbers had sparkled during his years with BASEBALL PROSPECTUS and his inventions of research styles:
Pecota Qera and Secret Sauce.
If Franken doesn’t win by 27 votes, will it mean that
Reno Bertoia was the best third baseman in the history of baseball?
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Projection: Franken to Win Recount […]
What about Gift-Related?
November 23, 2008 — Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT)
1 dead, 1 wounded in mall shooting near Seattle
(CNN) — One man died and another was critically injured Saturday evening after they were shot at a shopping center in Tukwila, Washington.
The men who were shot were taken from the Westfield Southcenter on stretchers and placed […]
“It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure,” said James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “You’d […]
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Please find story and video of G20 brush-off here.
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College Presidents Cashing In, Study Says
Dozens of Presidents at Public Universities Reel In More Than $500K, Despite General Shortage of Funds
By JOEL SIEGEL
Nov. 17, 2008
The number of college and university presidents taking home eye-popping paychecks continues to climb even as more and more students have trouble paying their tuition bills.
Fifty-nine presidents of public universities […]
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This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier, believed for the eight decades to have been extinct. One of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, it was rediscovered in Indonesia by Texas A and M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August.
(Texas A and M University/Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Handout/Reuters)
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The story is here.
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