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WHERE REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES COME FROM. . . .
ANGELA VALDEZ, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER - The three guys sitting at the bar
at Town Hall in Georgetown swear it's a true story: A friend of theirs
called a buddy in the middle of a sexual conquest, placing his cell
phone out of view. When the voice mail picked up, it recorded him asking
his lady, "You like that Republican cock?"
The guys are wearing golf shirts and drinking Miller Lites. They've been
telling raunchy tales about what happens after dark in Georgetown,
playing toward expectations. They know I'm a reporter on assignment. At
first, the sordid tales of preppy hookups just make me laugh.
Then the bearded one in the middle busts out with this: "Do you like
anal sex?" I squint. I'm confused. "Do you do anal?" he repeats, head
bobbing with excitement. The litany continues. Do I want to take it in
the ass? Have I ever taken it in the ass? My silence is taken as an
affirmative and he announces that this interview will go no further
unless he receives a hand job. I retreat into a hole carved out during
similar sessions in high school and head for the door. . .
Late Night Shots caters to Washington's hard-partying preppy crowd.
Think of a new generation of young Republicans getting trashed at St.
Elmo's, hooking up, then writing about it at 3 in the morning. The
bar-scene-themed Web site launched in late spring 2006 and has since
branched out to four other cities. But it's nowhere near as popular
anywhere else as it is here in D.C. Founder Reed Landry, a prep-school
boy from McLean, Va., claims he has 14,500 members and that a third of
them visit the site every day. He and partner Neel Patel say they make
enough money from Google ads and banner ads to abandon outside
employment.
LNS operates like MySpace and Facebook, but with a heavy emphasis on
booze. To get an invite to the site, you need a connection among the
clientele of a few select Georgetown night spots. Users have "drinking
buddies" instead of "friends" and must list their favorite bars and
restaurants. There are fill-in-the-blanks for your sorority or
fraternity, your golf handicap, and your country club. The online
profiles show a population dominated by good- looking blondes and
smirking guys with athlete's shoulders. They attended the University of
Virginia, as did Landry, UNC, and a smattering of
pretty-good-but-not-Ivy schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. Under the
space for employer, they list investment and lobby firms and jobs on the
Hill.
Most categorize their political views as conservative. Many are
Episcopalian or Presbyterian. The overwhelming majority are white. Some
people describe themselves simply as WASP. . .
http://washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2008
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ECOLOGY
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MEXICO CITY MAYOR ORDERS TOP OFFICIALS TO RIDE BIKES TO WORK ONCE A
MONTH
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE - Mayor Marcelo Ebrard delivered his shocking
order to top officials from beneath a leafy tree in one of the few
remaining parks in Mexico City. On the first Monday of every month,
Ebrard announced, he and his handpicked team would travel to work on
bicycles.
On Sunday May 13th the Mexico City government, headed by Chief of
Government Marcelo Ebrard, began the Ciclo-Paseos, or "Cycle-Rides"
program in designated streets of the country's capital. The program
encourages city inhabitants to walk, skate, or use bicycles to enjoy the
city and promote non-polluting forms of transportation. The streets
chosen consist of a circuit of 8.7 miles along the well known Reforma
Avenue and others close to the historic city center so that the public
can enjoy some of the cultural sites and activities along the ride.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070702/news_1n2bikes.html
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SCIENTISTS OUTLINE CLIMATE CHANGE'S EFFECT ON NORTHEAST
ANTHONY DePALMA, NY TIMES - By the end of this century, 100-year floods
could hit New York City every 10 years, Long Island lobsters could
disappear and New York apples could be hard to come by if nothing is
done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released
by a group of scientists and economists
"The Northeast can anticipate substantial - and often unwelcome or
dangerous - changes during the rest of this century," concluded the
report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which examined the impact
of global warming on the region. "The very character of the Northeast is
at stake.". . .
Earlier springs, longer summers and less snowy winters are already being
felt in part because of heat-trapping gasses that were released over the
last 50 years. The region will have to adapt to those changes, the
scientists said. But things could become far worse, and much more
costly, they said, unless steps are taken now to mitigate the impact.
Two alternative futures are laid out in the peer-reviewed study. One
projects what the future would look like if steps were taken to lower
emissions; the other looks at what would happen if emissions continued
to grow.
Without reductions in emissions, sea levels could rise, inundating
coastal areas on southern Long Island and pushing water into parts of
Lower Manhattan, flooding the financial district and swamping the
subways, making them inoperable. Atlantic City could be flooded every
other year by late century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/science/12warm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
REPORT BY STATE
http://www.climatechoices.org/ne/resources_ne/nereport.html
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WHERE REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES COME FROM. . . .
ANGELA VALDEZ, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER - The three guys sitting at the bar
at Town Hall in Georgetown swear it's a true story: A friend of theirs
called a buddy in the middle of a sexual conquest, placing his cell
phone out of view. When the voice mail picked up, it recorded him asking
his lady, "You like that Republican cock?"
The guys are wearing golf shirts and drinking Miller Lites. They've been
telling raunchy tales about what happens after dark in Georgetown,
playing toward expectations. They know I'm a reporter on assignment. At
first, the sordid tales of preppy hookups just make me laugh.
Then the bearded one in the middle busts out with this: "Do you like
anal sex?" I squint. I'm confused. "Do you do anal?" he repeats, head
bobbing with excitement. The litany continues. Do I want to take it in
the ass? Have I ever taken it in the ass? My silence is taken as an
affirmative and he announces that this interview will go no further
unless he receives a hand job. I retreat into a hole carved out during
similar sessions in high school and head for the door. . .
Late Night Shots caters to Washington's hard-partying preppy crowd.
Think of a new generation of young Republicans getting trashed at St.
Elmo's, hooking up, then writing about it at 3 in the morning. The
bar-scene-themed Web site launched in late spring 2006 and has since
branched out to four other cities. But it's nowhere near as popular
anywhere else as it is here in D.C. Founder Reed Landry, a prep-school
boy from McLean, Va., claims he has 14,500 members and that a third of
them visit the site every day. He and partner Neel Patel say they make
enough money from Google ads and banner ads to abandon outside
employment.
LNS operates like MySpace and Facebook, but with a heavy emphasis on
booze. To get an invite to the site, you need a connection among the
clientele of a few select Georgetown night spots. Users have "drinking
buddies" instead of "friends" and must list their favorite bars and
restaurants. There are fill-in-the-blanks for your sorority or
fraternity, your golf handicap, and your country club. The online
profiles show a population dominated by good- looking blondes and
smirking guys with athlete's shoulders. They attended the University of
Virginia, as did Landry, UNC, and a smattering of
pretty-good-but-not-Ivy schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. Under the
space for employer, they list investment and lobby firms and jobs on the
Hill.
Most categorize their political views as conservative. Many are
Episcopalian or Presbyterian. The overwhelming majority are white. Some
people describe themselves simply as WASP. . .
http://washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2008
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ECOLOGY
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MEXICO CITY MAYOR ORDERS TOP OFFICIALS TO RIDE BIKES TO WORK ONCE A
MONTH
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE - Mayor Marcelo Ebrard delivered his shocking
order to top officials from beneath a leafy tree in one of the few
remaining parks in Mexico City. On the first Monday of every month,
Ebrard announced, he and his handpicked team would travel to work on
bicycles.
On Sunday May 13th the Mexico City government, headed by Chief of
Government Marcelo Ebrard, began the Ciclo-Paseos, or "Cycle-Rides"
program in designated streets of the country's capital. The program
encourages city inhabitants to walk, skate, or use bicycles to enjoy the
city and promote non-polluting forms of transportation. The streets
chosen consist of a circuit of 8.7 miles along the well known Reforma
Avenue and others close to the historic city center so that the public
can enjoy some of the cultural sites and activities along the ride.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070702/news_1n2bikes.html
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SCIENTISTS OUTLINE CLIMATE CHANGE'S EFFECT ON NORTHEAST
ANTHONY DePALMA, NY TIMES - By the end of this century, 100-year floods
could hit New York City every 10 years, Long Island lobsters could
disappear and New York apples could be hard to come by if nothing is
done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released
by a group of scientists and economists
"The Northeast can anticipate substantial - and often unwelcome or
dangerous - changes during the rest of this century," concluded the
report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which examined the impact
of global warming on the region. "The very character of the Northeast is
at stake.". . .
Earlier springs, longer summers and less snowy winters are already being
felt in part because of heat-trapping gasses that were released over the
last 50 years. The region will have to adapt to those changes, the
scientists said. But things could become far worse, and much more
costly, they said, unless steps are taken now to mitigate the impact.
Two alternative futures are laid out in the peer-reviewed study. One
projects what the future would look like if steps were taken to lower
emissions; the other looks at what would happen if emissions continued
to grow.
Without reductions in emissions, sea levels could rise, inundating
coastal areas on southern Long Island and pushing water into parts of
Lower Manhattan, flooding the financial district and swamping the
subways, making them inoperable. Atlantic City could be flooded every
other year by late century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/science/12warm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
REPORT BY STATE
http://www.climatechoices.org/ne/resources_ne/nereport.html
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