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Meet the 2010 FellowsMacArthur Foundation

Meet the 2010 FellowsDos Pueblos Engineering Academy Goleta, CA Age: 38Physics Teacher inspiring and preparing public high school students for careers in science and mathematics through an innovati...

Key Elements of a Health Workforce Strategy for the Global Health Initiative

Sep 28, 2010In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman is likely to deliver her baby without a skilled birth attendant. That makes her chance of dying unacceptably high. Skilled attendants are present at only ...

Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books

Credit: Matt Wright-Steel for the Wall Street JournalAuthor John Pipkin worries about the e-book business model: 'I've had to rethink my plans in terms of supporting my family full time as a writer...

Executive Assistant for Operations - IntraHealth

Chapel Hill, NC, USAThe Executive Assistant for Operations is responsible for supporting the Vice President of Operations—focusing on management of workflow, calendars, priorities, and deliverabl...

Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Photographs

Alfred Stieglitz does not need the Lens blog to enhance his reputation.So there is no real point in urging readers to see the exhibition “Alfred Stieglitz New York” at the Seaport Museum, whose cur...

25 logos with hidden messages – Amazing Graphic Designing tricks! « Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers

As a graphic designer, it feels great to find my customers so convinced about the power of a logo and what benefits it can earn them. However, I would say it is not just enough getting a simple log...

Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview

By Jann S. WennerSep 28, 2010 7:00 AM EDTThe following is an article from the October 15, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone.We arrived at the southwest gate of the white house a little after one o'clock ...

What Is Paladino About?

Is the Republican candidate for governor of New York a racist, sexist, pornography-loving creep? Or are there other, more benign, explanations for the stomach-turning e-mails distributed by Carl Pa...

Seize the Day, Seize the Data: Tech-Enabled Moments of Opportunity in Closed Societies

AbstractThe abrupt fall of an authoritarian regime often surprises the world with apparent suddenness.  Given the right moment of opportunity, skillfully applied pressure can prove a thuggish regim...

Survey: Americans lack some religious knowledge

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAYAmericans are clear on God but foggy on facts about faiths.The new U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, released today by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds...

The American Beer Style You Haven't Heard Of - Clay Risen - Food

Bernt Rostad/flickrAfter thousands of years of brewing, it's not every day that someone comes up with a new beer style. But in the last few years, West Coast craft brewers have been churning out wh...

Texting bans may add risk to roads

By Larry Copeland, USA TODAYKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Laws banning texting while driving actually may prompt a slight increase in road crashes, research out today shows.The findings, to be unveiled at a m...

A True Story » Pressthink

The short answer is: I wanted to be, but I screwed it up, so I couldn’t be.Discovering journalism in college saved me. At the time (1976) I was on a track that would have led to an assistant manage...

By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times September 27, 2010|9:07 p.m.If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an atheist.Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey that measured Americans' knowl...

Think Progress » DeMint To Trigger The Senate’s Doomsday Device

Two weeks ago, the Progress Report warned of a nightmare scenario where a single senator decides to object to virtually every measure being considered by the Senate, a maneuver could effectively br...

Picture Show: Surfing the Icy Waters of the Oregon Coast - Culture

With rugged tree-lined mountains that plummet directly into its oceanic waters—which tend to hover just over 50 degrees Fahrenheit—the Oregonian coast is cold, beautiful, and imposing. Yet all year...

James Franco Selects His Favorite Poems -- Vulture

Photo: Oscilloscope LaboratoriesToday, Howl opens in theaters, with James Franco inhabiting the role of Allen Ginsberg circa the mid-fifties, as his most famous poem creates a national controversy....

Sympathy for Ireland - NYTimes.com

September 28, 2010, 10:19 amI have had a lot of downbeat stuff to say about Irish policy and prospects. But having their position worsened by a warning from S&P is cause for justifiable anger on th...

Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, found dead near Griffith Park | L.A. NOW

September 28, 2010 |  6:27amDirector Quentin Tarantino's longtime film editor, who went hiking with her dog amid the extreme heat Monday, was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in B...

Maker of BlackBerry Introduces Tablet

OTTAWA — , the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, introduced its first tablet computer on Monday at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. But in a return to its roots, the company sa...