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Socialist Hollande triumphs in French presidential poll - FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012 - FRANCE 24
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 2:55 PM EDT (Frace24)
François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.9% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sa …
Terror Defendant Convicted in New York Subway Plot
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 4:52 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"A Queens man was convicted of a host of terrorism charges on Tuesday for participating in a plot led by Al Qaeda to stage suicide attacks in the New York subways, an effort that prosecutors said was stopped just days before three former high school classmates planned to set off …
Greenwich Village Hawks @!$%# on the NY Times
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:19 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"We apologize that visibility of the red-tailed hawks’ nest has been significantly reduced. The once pristine view of Washington Square Park from the 12th floor of Bobst Library has been sullied by hawk excrement."
Solar power's next shining | Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice | McKinsey & Company
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:52 PM EDT ()
Has the solar-power industry lapsed into a classic cycle of boom and bust after a decade of unprecedented growth? It might appear so. As years of government subsidies boosted the global installed capacity of solar-photovoltaic (PV) modules and dramatically cut prices, new produ …
Fake Social Science Looks at Gummint Spending, Part 3: Filling the Purse and Emptying the Bag
Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:15 AM EDT
Some people think government spending is too much, some think it's too little; almost no one thinks it's 'just right'. The core question becomes: Should we decrease spending/services or increase taxes/revenues? Fake Social Science hopes to address this question in a three part p …
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I Hunt, But I Oppose the N.R.A.
Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:10 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns, but not for self-defense. I support gun control laws. I would happily vote to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in my home state of Oregon. In other words, the N.R.A. does not represent me."
Re: the "freedom of man" meme: The lost progressive mission (the failure of modernity to replace dogma)
Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:38 AM EDT
The "memes" or ideas of the early European progressive movement were some of the most intellectually important concepts ever produced in the (WESTERN) human quest for the "progressive" advancement of the human species . In a noble act, oftentimes at great …
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3 Arrested in Manhattan as March Turns Into a Melee
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:07 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"A group of people who had attended an anarchist book fair in Manhattan later marched to a nearby Starbucks on Saturday night and began swinging at the windows with metal pipes, as frightened customers hid under tables, the police said. The confrontation ended with three arrests …
67 more APS educators punished in cheating scandal
Seeded on Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:49 PM EDT (wsbtv)
On Thursday, the state agency that gives teachers permits to work in public education voted to take away permits for the accused educators -- some for two years and some permanently. The Professional Standards Commission has now made recommendations for 83 cases in th …
Putin Calls NATO 'Cold War Relic' | Russia | RIA Novosti
Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:34 AM EDT (RIA Novosti)
But he also said that that NATO often played a stabilizing role in international affairs. “NATO acts within the UN mandate in Afghanistan…and it is in our national interests too to have the Afghan situation brought under control," he said. He also denied Russia w …
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