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Reform Watch: House Passes Health Bill 220-215 At 10:59 pm Saturday evening, a 15-minute vote was called. Members of the House were then to vote yea or nay by electronic device. By 11:01 pm ...
Posted ‎‎Nov 9, 2009 9:09 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Reform Watch: Gay Rights Protections The push to ensure full civil rights equality for gays marked a major milestone last week with the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Though Republicans opposed ...
Posted ‎‎Oct 27, 2009 8:37 AM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Reform Watch: Healthcare, Education, Non-proliferation, Military Spending, Energy, Finance & Immigration Healthcare Reform Two Senate Democrats have pledged not to aid Republicans in blocking a full Senate vote in healthcare reform legislation. That moves the Democratic majority closer to the 60 ...
Posted ‎‎Oct 27, 2009 8:33 AM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson

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Major Climate-linked Emissions Regulation Will Help Everyone Everywhere, including Business Even as momentum gathers for major collaborative climate-linked emissions regulatory policy, aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions like carbon dioxide (CO2), some in industry remain convinced of an outdated ...
Posted ‎‎Oct 27, 2009 8:39 AM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Glacial Melt in India Threat to Food & Water Security NOW, with David Brancaccio, travels to the Indian Himalaya, to examine the problem of persistent accelerating ice melt which is speeding the erosion of glaciers that feed the Ganges River ...
Posted ‎‎Jun 22, 2009 2:38 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Munich Re, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, E.ON in 400 BN € Solar Project A coalition of German firms has answered a call to study making an investment of 400 billion € in solar energy across North Africa. The plan, initiated by the Club of ...
Posted ‎‎Jun 20, 2009 1:10 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson

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Something of this World As a blue-fire sun came up over the sea, milky and iridescent, there was no sound, there were no motorized noises, the world was sleeping and nothing moved but ...
Posted ‎‎Jun 23, 2009 2:48 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Faultlines Are Lifegivers Intense heat, the suffocation of the great metropolis that stingily carries on not recognizing that it was made by human hands and minds for the benefit of human beings in ...
Posted ‎‎Jun 23, 2009 9:40 AM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson

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Naufragios edita edición de otoño 2009 La segunda edición de la revista Naufragios, del grupo Taller Literario Pinzón Nueve, de Villanova University, se estrenó esta semana. Recoge otra vez contribuciones de muchos países, en literatura, crítica ...
Posted ‎‎Nov 9, 2009 9:16 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
Avispa el tiempo no esni la aurora ni el relojno es ni un combateni el amor en descensoel tiempo no es de fiarni es una corriente ...
Posted ‎‎Nov 9, 2009 8:28 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
La tortuga siglos en esperabuscando utopíasinmensas cálidasdonde la sombra es soly el sol lluviade fértiles contingenciasun amor arquitectode mares sin fondo
Posted ‎‎Jun 23, 2009 2:40 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson

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MSF Says DR Congo Military Fired on Civilians at 7 Vaccination Clinics Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as ...
Posted ‎‎Nov 10, 2009 6:04 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
German Report from Night Berlin Wall Fell This video is in German, with English subtitles. It shows the convergence of thousands at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing, as news of the opening of the wall began to ...
Posted ‎‎Nov 9, 2009 8:02 PM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson
There is No Button to Push, Thankfully THE KNEE-JERK LOGIC OF 'LESS LETHAL WEAPONS' MAY POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF DEMOCRACYIt has been said in recent decades that leaders of nuclear ...
Posted ‎‎Jun 29, 2009 8:19 AM‎‎ by Joseph Robertson

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