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The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com It seems I'm obliged to link to this. Apologies for the delay. (tags: politics economics culture business books) MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge Do you like politics? And radio-button Internet polls? Well, this is…
nanoscale views: A (serious) modest proposal "As part of the forthcoming major economic stimulus package, I propose that the Obama administration fully fund the America Competes initiative immediately." (tags: science politics academia economics) 'Teaching Unprepared Students' :: Inside Higher…
The Art of Sleeping in Seminars | Department of Physics at the U of I "Through long years of experience, we have accumulated the following useful set of rules. These should be helpful to beginning research students. However, we have also observed seasoned veterans making some of these simple…
Think Globally, Compromise Locally - Green Blog - NYTimes.com "Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book, "The End of Nature," helped coalesce and spread worry about climate change, views the national environmental groups' strategy of winning support for energy and climate legislation by compromising with…