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CORRECTED LINK
ISRAEL: ECHOES OF AMERICA'S ONCE SEGREGATED SOUTH
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/
2007/12/19/ST2007121902748.html
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GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE
BELFAST TELEGRAPH, IRELAND - To keep a check on the hormone levels of
[rhinos] Ashanti and Zanta, authorities at Dublin Zoo - who are hoping
to breed the animals - added blue and silver glitter to their feed to
tell the feces apart for analysis. . . "When the feces samples are
collected with the different color glitter, it's clear which sample
belongs to Ashanti and which sample belongs to Zanta.
http://improbable.com/2007/12/25/colorful-pregnancy-test-for-rhinos/
When I first arrived in Norman, Oklahoma, for my postdoctoral fellowship
in 1996, one of the first projects I started on my own was to see if it
rained more on the weekend. In 1998, I published my preliminary results.
. . When I got to FMI, Ari Laaksonen and Doug Worsnop encouraged me to
complete the research. Ari's graduate student Santtu was enlisted and
off we went. We found no significant weekly cycles in precipitation at
222 stations across the United States, the most comprehensive assessment
to date. Our work was published this month in Geophysical Research
Letters. - Schultz, D. M., S. Mikkonen, A. Laaksonen, and M. B. Richman
(2007), Weekly precipitation cycles? Lack of evidence from United States
surface stations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L22815,
doi:10.1029/2007GL031889.
http://improbable.com/2007/12/24/does-it-rain-more-on-weekends-update/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECO CLIPS
DAILY GREEN - Glaciers in China are melting at nearly twice the rate
predicted just seven years ago, according to a national survey detailed
in the South China Morning Post. . . Since 1950, China has lost more
than 7% of its glaciers, and at a rate equivalent to losing enough ice
to cover Hong Kong island every year.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/china-glaciers-47122606
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INDICATORS
ABOUT 82% of Americans in 2007 told Gallup interviewers that they
identified with a Christian religion. That includes 51% who said they
were Protestant, 5% who were "other Christian," 23% Roman Catholic, and
3% who named another Christian faith, including 2% Mormon. Because 11%
said they had no religious identity at all, and another 2% didn't
answer, these results suggest that well more than 9 out of 10 Americans
who identify with a religion are Christian in one way or the other.
Sixty-two percent of Americans in Gallup's latest poll, conducted in
December, say they are members of a "church or synagogue," a question
Gallup has been asking since 1937. In the 1937 Gallup Poll, 73% of
Americans said they were church members. That number stayed in the 70%
range in polls conducted in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. By the 1970s,
however, the number began to slip below 70% in some polls, although as
recently as 1999, 70% said they were church members. Since 2002,
self-reported church membership has been between 63% and 65%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/103459/Questions-Answers-
About-Americans-Religion.aspx?version=print
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WORLD
INDEPENDENT, UK - Voters believe it is "time for change" and that the
next government should be a Conservative one, according to an opinion
poll for The Independent. The survey by ComRes shows that David Cameron
is seen as the best Prime Minister for Britain, as more likeable than
Gordon Brown and as having the best frontbench team. But Mr Brown is
ahead on the economy. The most striking finding is that 48 per cent of
the public agree with the statement that "it's time for change and the
next government should be a Conservative one", while only 36 per cent
would prefer a Labor administration to a Tory one.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3280439.ece
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FREEDOM WATCH
ARS TECHNICA - Opponents of Australia's controversial Access Card
received an early Christmas present earlier this month when the incoming
Rudd Labor Government finally axed the controversial ID program. Had it
been implemented, the Access Card program would have required
Australians to present the smart card anytime they dealt with certain
federal departments, including Medicare, Centrelink, the Child Support
Agency, or Veterans' Affairs. . . Australians were unhappy about being
forced to carry a unique ID card merely for the purpose of interacting
with basic human and health services, and the proposal faced opposition
from its very inception. The defeat of John Howard in the Australian
polls was the last gasp of the Access Card program, which was killed off
as one of the very first acts of the new Labor government, lead by Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd. Australia's battle against the Access Card system
echoes the active opposition in America to the REAL ID act. Although the
two plans differ substantially in scope and implementation, critics of
both argued against them on the same privacy- and
civil-liberties-oriented grounds.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071224-australias-
controversial-national-id-program-hits-the-dumpster.html
NEWSMAX - The California Supreme Court has ruled that shopping malls
can't stop protesters from urging the boycott of stores while on mall
property. In a 4-3 decision, the justices ruled that the Fashion Valley
mall in San Diego violated California's free speech laws when it kicked
out demonstrators in 1998. Members of a workers' union at the San Diego
Union-Tribune newspaper were forced out of the mall for distributing
leaflets urging the boycott of the Robinsons-May store.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/mall_protests/2007/12/25/59635.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
IF the Clinton administration was really – as Bill Clinton would have us
believe – a co-presidency with his wife, doesn't the Constitution
prevent the two of them from running again?
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FIELD NOTES
DESKTOP
JIM RIDGEWAY is blogging the NH primary for the Guardian
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/authors/james_ridgeway/index.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE . . .
P.U.-LITZER PRIZES FOR 2007
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page-3235
GALLERY: HOW MUCH BRITS DISLIKE SPEED CAMS
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
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CORRECTED LINK
ISRAEL: ECHOES OF AMERICA'S ONCE SEGREGATED SOUTH
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/
2007/12/19/ST2007121902748.html
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GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE
BELFAST TELEGRAPH, IRELAND - To keep a check on the hormone levels of
[rhinos] Ashanti and Zanta, authorities at Dublin Zoo - who are hoping
to breed the animals - added blue and silver glitter to their feed to
tell the feces apart for analysis. . . "When the feces samples are
collected with the different color glitter, it's clear which sample
belongs to Ashanti and which sample belongs to Zanta.
http://improbable.com/2007/12/25/colorful-pregnancy-test-for-rhinos/
When I first arrived in Norman, Oklahoma, for my postdoctoral fellowship
in 1996, one of the first projects I started on my own was to see if it
rained more on the weekend. In 1998, I published my preliminary results.
. . When I got to FMI, Ari Laaksonen and Doug Worsnop encouraged me to
complete the research. Ari's graduate student Santtu was enlisted and
off we went. We found no significant weekly cycles in precipitation at
222 stations across the United States, the most comprehensive assessment
to date. Our work was published this month in Geophysical Research
Letters. - Schultz, D. M., S. Mikkonen, A. Laaksonen, and M. B. Richman
(2007), Weekly precipitation cycles? Lack of evidence from United States
surface stations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L22815,
doi:10.1029/2007GL031889.
http://improbable.com/2007/12/24/does-it-rain-more-on-weekends-update/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECO CLIPS
DAILY GREEN - Glaciers in China are melting at nearly twice the rate
predicted just seven years ago, according to a national survey detailed
in the South China Morning Post. . . Since 1950, China has lost more
than 7% of its glaciers, and at a rate equivalent to losing enough ice
to cover Hong Kong island every year.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/china-glaciers-47122606
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INDICATORS
ABOUT 82% of Americans in 2007 told Gallup interviewers that they
identified with a Christian religion. That includes 51% who said they
were Protestant, 5% who were "other Christian," 23% Roman Catholic, and
3% who named another Christian faith, including 2% Mormon. Because 11%
said they had no religious identity at all, and another 2% didn't
answer, these results suggest that well more than 9 out of 10 Americans
who identify with a religion are Christian in one way or the other.
Sixty-two percent of Americans in Gallup's latest poll, conducted in
December, say they are members of a "church or synagogue," a question
Gallup has been asking since 1937. In the 1937 Gallup Poll, 73% of
Americans said they were church members. That number stayed in the 70%
range in polls conducted in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. By the 1970s,
however, the number began to slip below 70% in some polls, although as
recently as 1999, 70% said they were church members. Since 2002,
self-reported church membership has been between 63% and 65%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/103459/Questions-Answers-
About-Americans-Religion.aspx?version=print
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WORLD
INDEPENDENT, UK - Voters believe it is "time for change" and that the
next government should be a Conservative one, according to an opinion
poll for The Independent. The survey by ComRes shows that David Cameron
is seen as the best Prime Minister for Britain, as more likeable than
Gordon Brown and as having the best frontbench team. But Mr Brown is
ahead on the economy. The most striking finding is that 48 per cent of
the public agree with the statement that "it's time for change and the
next government should be a Conservative one", while only 36 per cent
would prefer a Labor administration to a Tory one.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3280439.ece
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FREEDOM WATCH
ARS TECHNICA - Opponents of Australia's controversial Access Card
received an early Christmas present earlier this month when the incoming
Rudd Labor Government finally axed the controversial ID program. Had it
been implemented, the Access Card program would have required
Australians to present the smart card anytime they dealt with certain
federal departments, including Medicare, Centrelink, the Child Support
Agency, or Veterans' Affairs. . . Australians were unhappy about being
forced to carry a unique ID card merely for the purpose of interacting
with basic human and health services, and the proposal faced opposition
from its very inception. The defeat of John Howard in the Australian
polls was the last gasp of the Access Card program, which was killed off
as one of the very first acts of the new Labor government, lead by Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd. Australia's battle against the Access Card system
echoes the active opposition in America to the REAL ID act. Although the
two plans differ substantially in scope and implementation, critics of
both argued against them on the same privacy- and
civil-liberties-oriented grounds.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071224-australias-
controversial-national-id-program-hits-the-dumpster.html
NEWSMAX - The California Supreme Court has ruled that shopping malls
can't stop protesters from urging the boycott of stores while on mall
property. In a 4-3 decision, the justices ruled that the Fashion Valley
mall in San Diego violated California's free speech laws when it kicked
out demonstrators in 1998. Members of a workers' union at the San Diego
Union-Tribune newspaper were forced out of the mall for distributing
leaflets urging the boycott of the Robinsons-May store.
http://www.newsmax.com/us/mall_protests/2007/12/25/59635.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
IF the Clinton administration was really – as Bill Clinton would have us
believe – a co-presidency with his wife, doesn't the Constitution
prevent the two of them from running again?
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIELD NOTES
DESKTOP
JIM RIDGEWAY is blogging the NH primary for the Guardian
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/authors/james_ridgeway/index.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE . . .
P.U.-LITZER PRIZES FOR 2007
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page-3235
GALLERY: HOW MUCH BRITS DISLIKE SPEED CAMS
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
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