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Op-Ed Contributor: Elite Colleges Are as Foreign as Mars

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:55:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - IN 12th grade, my friend Ryan and I were finalists for the Silver State Scholars, a competition to identify the “Top 100” seniors in Nevada. The finalists were flown to Lake Tahoe for two days of interviews. On the plane, Ryan and I met a boy from Las Ve

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George Shultz Presses Congress to Act on Climate Change

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ashley Southall - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - Mr. Shultz, who was the secretary of state, labor and the Treasury, urged lawmakers to support the development of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, and alternative energy.

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The man whose creation killed millions

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - The modern cigarette came into existence in the 1880s, thanks to tobacco entrepreneur James Duke. How much responsibility does he carry?

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Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

NewsHour - By Spencer Michaels - Sep. 17 (Interview) - By: Spencer Michels It was about 105 degrees in Chico, Calif., about three hours north of Sacramento, when we arrived at the offices of one of the nation's most read climate skeptics. Actually, Anthony Watts calls himself a pragmatic skeptic when it come

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Seniors, Guns and Money

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 13 (Opinion) - This has to be one of the funniest political stories of recent weeks: On Tuesday, 42 freshmen Republican members of Congress sent a letter urging President Obama to stop Democrats from engaging in “Mediscare” tactics — that is, to stop saying that the Republican budget plan released early last month, which would end Medicare as we know it, is a plan to end Medicare as we know it.

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Intel and Stanford University to jointly develop 3-D graphics projects

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By Lisa Krieger - Jan. 26 (News) - In an unusual collaboration, Intel and Stanford University announced Wednesday that their scientists will work together, on campus, to design new visual computing projects. Intel is giving Stanford $2.5 million a year, for five years, to support a new "Intel Science & Technology Center" that is focused on 3-D graphics research, according to a joint announcement Wednesday morning by Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner and Stanford computer graphics professor Pat Hanrahan.

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How close are we to catastrophic climate change?

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By David Biello - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - As you may have noticed, scientists remain convinced that humans are altering the global climate with an excess of greenhouse gas emissions—soot, methane and the ever-present carbon dioxide we pump out from our lungs and coal-burning power plants. The question is: how bad is said climate change going to get?

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Letter on Muslim radical roils GOP Senate race

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Seema Mehta - Mar. 09 (News) - errorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor.

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World's coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Ian Sample - Feb. 23 (News) - Coral reefs in the Red Sea, north of Jeddah. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images The world's coral reefs will begin to disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic,

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