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Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino (1)
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washingtonpost.com - The Fed Page: Inside the Government Workforce (0) permalink
The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.Shared by Fang (13)Contribute comment -
AFP: Math is Heroic? Dumbing Down the English Language (1)
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Yahoo News featured an interesting short report issued by Agence France-Presse on November 20. In it we discover that a consortium of French, German and Hungarian mathematicians are claiming to have proven that Einstein's famous equation, e=mc2, is correct. The report is all good except for one very small aspect. They call the effort of these mathematicians "heroic" in contradiction to the root meaning of the word. Mathematics isn't "heroic" and it is a degradation ...Shared by Jerminator (2)Contribute comment -
Bill Clinton's Global Reach Would Have Pluses and Minuses for a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (1)
onIf Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is named the next secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say would bring with it a host of potential benefits and pitfalls for the new president.Shared by Center for Global Development (1)Contribute comment
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CPCC Lobbies Conservatives At Policy Convention (2)
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A blog reader reports that the Canadian Private Copying Collective, which manages the private copying levy, is working to undo a planned Conservative policy position to kill the levy. The collective is running a party for delegates on Thursday night in Winnipeg featuring songwriters, performers, and musicians.Shared by Jason Bryant (1) Mark (11)Contribute comment -
Tea With the Taliban? (1)
onAs U.S. and European officials ponder what to do about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, they are coming to a perhaps surprising conclusion: The simplest way to stabilize the country may be to negotiate a truce with the Taliban fundamentalists who were driven from power by the United States in 2001.Shared by Sean McBride (11)Contribute comment
