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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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