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Teacher put on admin leave in Colorado
Mar 02 2006, 15:16 EST
Warning: a lot of boring text on an interesting event below.
A high school geography teacher in Cherry Creek School District was put on adminstrative leave yesterday. For the last six years he has apparently turned his classes into a soapbox for tellin
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New Nuclear Plants
Feb 23 2006, 11:09 EST
Physics Today reports that countries all over the world are planning and building new nuclear reactors. India even has a fast breeder reactor planned. Wonder of wonders, the US is preparing to build more nuclear plants. I was a bit surprised that most of
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ABA and the results of mandated diversity
Feb 22 2006, 21:55 EST [updated Feb 22 2006, 21:56 EST]
David Berstein argues over at Volokh that mandating more black law school slots won't help the American Bar Association's stated goal of helping more black would-be lawyers become lawyers. Since black law students as a group have higher dropout rates and
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Web 2.0, Copyright, and Schlock
Feb 21 2006, 01:50 EST [updated Feb 21 2006, 07:20 EST]
"Web 2.0" is a horrid buzz phrase that means "this time it will be really cool, I promise!" There are new words but five years ago the same would have been couched as paradigm shifting. The players are give-or-take the same but we have new empty words b
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Massachusetts finds programs that pay for themselves
Feb 21 2006, 00:08 EST [updated Feb 21 2006, 00:22 EST]
Programs that pay for themselves .. with taxes. Boston's Mayor Menino has proposed a plan to develop by floating bonds to pay for the municipal services to a vacant lot (gas, electric, roads, public accomodations) by recouping the money through income ta
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 19 2006, 15:46 EST
Football season is over, bowling season begins
[jackdied]
Feb 19 2006, 15:46 EST
teddied hit 153, I managed a 149. bobsalive was MIA.
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Cheney does a bad Shane impression
Feb 13 2006, 22:44 EST [updated Feb 13 2006, 22:55 EST]
Dick Cheney shot a man. In the face. The Smoking Gun has a copy of the incident report with the title "See Dick. Run!" [I wish I'd thought of that one -ed]. A good indicator that this won't be a lasting news story is that the conservative National Revie
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Snow in Beantown
Feb 13 2006, 11:19 EST [updated Feb 14 2006, 11:30 EST]
teddied by email:
Just checked the blog, no word about your snow monsoon. I fully expected at least a post about the tow trucks and loud speakers telling everyone to get their cars off the street. You are letting your public down.
They don't alway
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Your week in Quickies
Feb 06 2006, 10:09 EST
Woman Still Breastfeeds Eight Year Old Daughter
[bobsalive]
Feb 04 2006, 18:44 EST
This can't be healthy. And sounds too outrageous to
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Superbowl Projections
Feb 05 2006, 01:10 EST [updated Feb 05 2006, 12:23 EST]
National Review has a roll call of predictions from such heavies as Pat Toomey and such, umm, not heavies as E.D. Hill (nee Edith Ann Tarbox, such a name!). Toomey is a fellow Philly boy (eastern PA at any rate) and announces for the Steelers, 27-17. I'
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I Hate Sony/BMG and DRM in General
Feb 04 2006, 14:03 EST [updated Feb 04 2006, 14:04 EST]
A friend at work loaned me a CD to check out. He didn't like it("Sucks Ass"), but wanted someone else to take a listen. The album was Z, by My Morning Jacket.
Sure, I thought. It's been a while since I've listened to any new artists. Listening to u
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