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Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan
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New York Film Festival Announces Lineup – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com
The latest offerings from the directors Alain Resnais and Pedro Almodóvar will bookend the 2009 New York Film Festival.
Opus Colorado » Blog Archive » Music's Magic Carpet Ride| Music …
News and commentary about music , classical music and more from Denver and Colorado.
Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi …
At a party in Hollywood, Lamarr met George Antheil, an avant-garde composer who also wrote film scores. While playing the piano with the composer, the actress suddenly has an important idea for her torpedo control system. …
stand up for REAL science
Don’t let the teaching of science be influenced by criticisms not solidly supported by the scientific literature.
China Opens Internet Legal Management Center – TechSecurityChina …
According to Li Yuxiao, director of the Internet Management and Law Research Center, based on an open platform, the institution will organize Chinese and foreign experts and scholars to implement basic, systematic, and theoretical …
CampusProgress.org | Time for the Internet Generation to Save Itself
President Obama has called for the first-ever national broadband plan to bring the Internet to everyone, and our public comments are due at the Federal Communications Commission here by Tuesday, July 21. …
Scripps SciComm Post IV: Jennifer Ouellette on Science in …
Hollywood and Science | We started off this morning with a real treat: A talk by Jennifer Ouellette, science writer and now director of the the National Academy of Sciences ‘ Science an.
John Smeaton, SPUC director: Compulsory sex education involves …
And isn’t the Catholic Education Service, by supporting the principle of making sex education lessons compulsory (providing that what’s taught is in line with parents’ wishes and upholds the ethos of the particular school) also running …
Wholesale inventories fall for record 10th straight month but …
Wholesale inventories fall for 10th straight monthWASHINGTON — Businesses slashed inventories at the wholesale level for a record 10th consecutive month in June, a decline that has contributed to the longest recession since World War …