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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Scientists present geological map of India’s Lonar crater

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, December 4 (ANI): In a new study, a team of scientists has presented a topographic model and a geological map of Lonar crater in India, which is one of the youngest and best preserved impact structures on Earth.Lonar crater is a 1.88-km diameter simple crater formed entirely within the Deccan traps (a ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Christmas: $12 Billion Wasted Yearly On Gifts; 18% Debt

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
  Review By Loyd Eskildson Wharton economics professor Joel Waldfogels Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldnt Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton University Press/ 2009) is a book intended to delight all those tired of Christmas crowds, shopping and debts, or who refuse to believe that their American duty is to ...
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• Old Europe Advanced Earlier than other Known Civilizations

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.More Articles
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• University program promotes social service abroad

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 604
  Download audio file (1126099.mp3) Download MP3 Princeton University has launched a new program called the Bridge Year Program. It places students in a foreign country for a year and pays their core expenses. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with one of those students, Lizzie Martin, who’s says her time in India so far ...
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• The Youngest and Oldest Universities in the U.S.

  
  Edu in Review Blog — Authority: 128
  There are new schools established every day. Some schools have only been certified for a few years. The youngest major university in the country is Ave Maria University in Florida, which was founded in 2002. Here are the youngest five schools in the country and their founding dates: 1.    Ave Maria University ...
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• SpeakOuts, Green Dots, and Other College News

  
  Change Happens: The SAFER Blog — Authority: 126
  Don’t expect much on the blog over the next few days…I think most of us will be busy with Thanksgiving. In the meantime you can spend some time browsing our new site ! But before I go, some college happenings: Remember the Green Dot Initiative ? Well The College of New Jersey is giving it a try. This will be ...
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• Short Fuse: The Revelatory Carnival of of Andre Codrescu

  
  The Arts Fuse Blog — Authority: 124
  The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu, Princeton University Press, 248 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Harvey Blume Author and NPR commentator Andre Codrescu is not particularly troubled by implausibility nor intimidated by contradiction In 1916, as Europe waged an horrific war ...
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• Columbia/Princeton Free Speech Cowards

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 513
  Here we have yet another case where an honest discussion is shut down because Muslim groups demanded it be shut down. There are some constants that lead to cowardice in these cases: “demands” that speech they don’t agree with be squelched, while it’s deemed quite appropriate for other Muslim groups to ...
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• Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By PETER S. STEINFELS Why can’t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? What’s that, you say? They were friends? Why didn’t anyone tell us? Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin , he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were ...
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• Scientists reconstruct the evolution of bat migration

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Berlin, November 24 (ANI): A team of scientists, with the aid of a mathematical model, has reconstructed the evolution of bat migration.The migratory behaviour of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called “Vespertilionidae”, was studied by researchers at Princeton University in the US and at the Max Planck ...
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• Doug Hoffman race, Sequoia voting machine, Election fraud?, NY District 23, Beta test, Pilot program, Leftists fraud, Princeton University study, Voting machine fraud

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”… Abraham Lincoln   Early in the 2008 election cycle there was widespread concern about voter fraud and intimidation. It is believed by many, including ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Christian Coalition Promises Civil Disobedience if Laws Passed it Doesn’t Like

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  More than 150 leaders across a spectrum of conservative Christianity on Friday released a 4,700-word document vowing civil disobedience if they are forced to take part in "anti-life acts" or bless gay marriages. Called the "Manhattan Declaration," the six-page, single-spaced document was drafted by Prison ...
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