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Energy Donald Trump is widely expected to significantly depart from the priorities of the Obama Administration by favoring development of additional conventional energy resources and attempting to put the brakes on new environmental initiatives. The GOP majorities in the House a...

“Datapalooza.” Here’s the reference: “New college ratings will help students compare the value offered by different colleges,” the fact sheet said. “The Department of Education will enlist entrepreneurs and technology leaders with a ‘Datapalooza’ to catalyze new private- sector...

… -- A group of unique public high schools in New York State and New Jersey, cited by President Obama as role models for the nation, have received critical funding from science investor, Jeffrey Epstein and his foundation, The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. The schools are called...

“Datapalooza.” Here’s the reference: “New college ratings will help students compare the value offered by different colleges,” the fact sheet said. “The Department of Education will enlist entrepreneurs and technology leaders with a ‘Datapalooza’ to catalyze new private- sector...

…ve immigration reform, which would likely include a path to citizenship for at least some illegal immigrants already in the United States, is still a "top priority," but with little congressional enthusiasm for such a measure, it has been pushed to the back burner for now. Meanwh...

to make the Obama version, and if McCain somehow wins, we’ re basically just totally screwed.” Likewise, Garry Trudeau gambled that Obama would win, and his syndicated Doonesbury strip--published the day after the election--depicted three soldiers in Iraq watching the returns on...

…ident, Obama has taken on a number of major foreign-policy initiatives, including a renewed troop surge in Afghanistan, the negotiation of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the NATO intervention in Libya, the withdrawal from Iraq, ongoing trade negotiations...

…e Calmes and Helene Cooper May 25, 2011 — Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the most partisan maneuvering since the Middle East ally was born six decades ago...

same dim, comfortably dangerous instincts that undid Mubarak. These kids can't possibly amount to much. The youth of these groups, the very fact that they were not the varsity team, their intimate fingertip familiarity with virtual spaces - all this gave this new generation of mo...

Article 4. NYT President Obama on Libya Editorial March 28, 2011 -- President Obama made the right, albeit belated, decision to join with allies and try to stop Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from slaughtering thousands of Libyans. But he has been far too slow to explain that decisio...

18 a distorting effect on the global economy. The president has made a few cautious statements on China's human rights record but came under criticism for delaying a White House meeting with the Dalai Lama. This year, the administration confirmed a $5.8 billion package of arms s...

power operates as much through light pulses running through fiber optic webs as it does in any physical sense. Think of the most influential geopolitical forces. The most lethal militaries. The greatest new commercial or financial efforts. All now depend on and are nearly defined...

…2 WC: 191694 Chapter 6 Offensiveness- Pornography: I Am Curious Yellow and Deep Throat Freedom of speech is not free. The right to say, show or publish often carries a heavy price tag. As kids, we recited the following ditty: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names wil...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 which begins: “No monument stands over Babi Yar A steep cliff only, like the rudist headstone lam afraid.” Now there is a monument, but it is unworthy of that term, and it is not as if the city of Kiev doesn’t know how to build giant monuments, if it chooses...

…80% 60% 40% 20% AHD words with frequency < X 0% Word frequency (log) Fig. S6. Frequency distribution of words in the dictionary. We compute the frequency in our year 2000 lexicon for all 116,156 words (1-grams) in the AHD (year 2000). We represent the percentage of these w...