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Daily Archive for April 29th, 2010

Now That’s Progress!

My favorite quote of the day (actually for tomorrow): Meanwhile, contemplate this depressing change in America’s can-do spirit: The 6.6 million-ton Hoover Dam that tamed the mighty Colorado River was finished in 1936 after a mere five years. Yet 130 offshore wind turbines, a pioneering project of President Obama’s “new energy economy,” may take three […]

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Graduation Shame

Here is a story about a Conn College student plagiarizing a Barbara Kingsolver speech. The article described the incident as particularly painful to many at the college who had deeply admired the idealistic, gutsy commencement talk and the student selected to give it, Peter St. John, who was described as the kind of person who […]

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