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[I could not think of a comment. -RS]
Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun’s rays forming a 100,000 square mile “sun shade”.
According to astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, the trillions of mirrors would have to be fired one million miles [...]

[From NY Times]
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
WASHINGTON — In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, but only [...]

[From AP via Yahoo]

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report.
Payments went to a company whose president tried to sell nuclear bomb parts to North Korea, a company that [...]

[From AP]
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
AP  – Senate approves DC voting bill
WASHINGTON(AP — The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation’s capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday.
Congress is “moving to right a centuries-old wrong,” said Senate Majority Leader [...]

How Perverse Incentives Drive Bad Security Decisions, from WIRED
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Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution, from Wired.com

By Kevin Poulsen

She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in [...]

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Saul Friedman, Gray Matters
Too often journalism ignores or belittles reports or proposals as outside the mainstream and bound to fail, thus assuring they will remain outside the mainstream and fail.
That, I believe, is what has been happening to proposals by three Democratic members of the House of Representatives [...]

By Amanda Terkel, from Think Progress
At tonight’s Academy Awards, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for “Milk,” the story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. Black — who was wearing a White Knot for marriage equality — spoke about how Milk inspired him:

BLACK: When I was 13 years [...]

PARTY IN THE PARK | Waiting for Dems to pay up

February 20, 2009

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com

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