After writing close to a thousand of these weekly essays, I won’t bury the lead…
Month: August 2008
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Television’s Future Could Be ‘Horrible’
Granted, most of the recent TV buzz has been about, rightly, “Mad Men”: Who wouldn’t…
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Sewage pipes left ‘unregulated’
Water companies in England and Wales have been given a “licence to pollute”, claims an…
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Bruised South Korean government takes on “infodemics” (Reuters)
Reuters – South Korea’s unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of…
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US raised issues of global warming with India and China
Press Trust of India: Describing the rapid economic growth of India and China based on…
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Forest Service’s budget is up in smoke
McClatchy Newspapers: The Forest Service has struggled for years to pay for fighting fires that…
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United Kingdom: Car tax rises ‘will hit poor hardest’
Metro: Hard-up drivers of the most polluting cars must be helped to meet a planned…
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Californians warming to offshore oil drilling
San Jose Mercury News: An endangered blue whale spouts last month near offshore oil rigs…
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United States: Wind Is Given 2nd Look As Energy Needs Grow
Washington Post: Miles of mountain ridges hugging the state’s western border could hold the key…
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The Iceman Cometh
New York Times: Greenland Ice Sheet, 77 degrees 45 minutes N. latitude, 51 degrees 6…