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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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• 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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• Fundamentalist Defeat and Reaction

  
  Frankly Speaking — Authority: 405
  Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan at the "Scopes Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925. With such momentum behind it, only a public defeat, a national scandal, could slow down the fundamentalist movement in America. That defeat occurred in 1925 at Dayton, Tennessee. Early on, the ...
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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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• Against Common Sense

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 100
  Conservatives would have us believe that they hold a monopoly on common sense. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and many other right-wing rabble-rousers regularly portray themselves as defenders of the good, old-fashioned common sense of average Americans against an out-of-touch liberal elite. A growing ...
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• Palin and McCarthy

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  A new Washington Post poll of Republicans records the remarkable extent to which todays rank-and-file GOPers cant identify much in the way of any clear-cut Republican leaders. Having just read Sam Tanenhaus meditation on Sarah Palin in the New Yorker , Im beginning to wonder whether the leaderless nature of the ...
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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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• If It Looks Like Poe and Sounds Like Poe . . .

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  In the Saturday Review of Books, an article discusses "a curious and interesting Edgar Allan Poe item," sold at auction last Monday: a manuscript of a parody of "The Raven" inscribed under the name Harriet Winslow, sold along with an 1845 edition of "The Raven and Other Poems." The article offers evidence that the ...
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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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• Good Progress on Panama Canal Is Reported

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  An upbeat annual report by the Isthmian Canal Commission was released yesterday by the War Department, and included an explanation for the increase in the projects estimated cost, to about $375 million from $144 million.
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• Court Orders Dissolution of Standard Oil Co.

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  In the equivalent of an appeals court decision, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been ruled "an illegal combination operating in restraint of trade." Frank B. Kellogg, United States special prosecutor, said the government won the case on every point argued.
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• Mechanical Skeleton Political Stickpin for William Jennings Bryan

  
  Anonymous Works — Authority: 469
  A painted brass shell skeleton dangles from a spring. On his chest is a shield reading "16 to 1 is dead," which opens to reveal Bryans portrait. Available here .
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• Inherit the Wind Worth Remembering on Anniversary

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 428
  Is Evolution A Matter of Opinion?This is one of the key scenes from the movie “Inherit the Wind” about the so-called “Scopes Money Trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. A teacher was accused of the “crime” of teaching evolution to his class, as we wrote about on our trip to Dayton back in March to highlight Charles ...
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• Leadership Inspirations - Destiny is a Matter of Choice

  
  StrategyDriven — Authority: 129
  “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan ‘The Great Commoner’ 41st United States Secretary of State                                 If you enjoyed this posting, we encourage you to ...
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