Archive for September, 2006
September 30, 2006 at 12:22 am
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To formalize the informal rumor mill through which most job market and postdoc applicants find out whether they’ve been accepted or rejected. This has been implemented in Astrophysics, Theoretical Particle Physics, Experimental CM/AMO Physics, and Theoret
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Hello bloggers! This blog is only for job rumors. If you are interested in discussing specific depts and their issues, please consider another blog. This is a place to professionally discuss job rumors. This is not a sounding block for individuals to lob
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We created this blog for those of us (Mid East History PhD’s and ABD’s) who are on the academic job market, in an attempt to formalize the informal rumor mill through which most job applicants find out whether they’ve been accepted or rejected. -It is
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Founded in the fall of 2005 with a generous grant from the BB&T Charitable Foundation, the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism is dedicated to exploring the moral, legal, constitutional, political and economic foundations of capitalism. The Cle
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September 29, 2006 at 12:22 am
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NASCO is an association of cooperatives in Canada and the U.S., which serves students, youth, and others who embrace cooperative education. NASCO provides its member cooperatives with operational assistance, encourages the development of new cooperatives,
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News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
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September 28, 2006 at 12:25 am
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In February 1974, Bradford Snell, a young government attorney, helped create the myth that General Motors caused the demise of America’s streetcar system and that without GM’s interference streetcars would be alive and well today. GM may have conspired wi
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I believe in the ultimate victory of faith, hope and love in a world full of conflict and destruction. Faith, that most human of emotions, manifests itself in many different forms throughout the world, and even within the lifetime of one individual. I bel
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This I Believe is a national media project engaging millions of people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives. NPR has aired these three-minute essays on its newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Thing
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Qwiki is a quantum physics wiki devoted to the collective creation of technical content for practicing scientists. Please sign up, browse around the site, click on the edit links, and contribute something! The site is nominally centered around quantum phy
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“Mission Creep” is not a recent phenomenon in the United States Army. Two hundred years ago, when President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to appropriate funds for what became know as the “Lewis and Clark Expedition,” he envisioned a party of 10-
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On September 16, over one million people raised their hands in a vote to recognize center-left leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the “legitimate president” of Mexico. Gathered in Mexico City’s historic center, the delegates to the National Democra
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On September 19, the Thai military swept into the streets of Bangkok and staged a coup against Thaksin Shinawatra, the telecommunications mogul who had served as prime minister since 2001.
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He’s a killler strategist and nonstop fundraiser, with a style one ally likens to a “toothache.” Meet the Chicago Congressman who’s one of the big reasons the Democrats have a shot to retake the house.
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September 27, 2006 at 12:29 am
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AUAf is delighted to welcome its first undergraduate students to the 2006/7 academic year. Students will study towards a US-style liberal arts degree in Business Administration or Information Communication Technology. The majority of the undergraduate stu
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Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda’s leaders—can operate freely.
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Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway…
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The Space Review is an online publication devoted to in-depth articles, commentary, and reviews regarding all aspects of space exploration: science, technology, policy, business, and more. more info
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Since the 2005 rejection of the EU constitution, the riots in the banlieue, and the anti-CPE demonstrations, France has been seeing a populist backlash often tolerated, if not supported, by the media. Although there has been self-criticism by some journal
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The Middle East, says Syrian President Bashar Assad, 40, seems to be teetering on the brink of chaos. He spoke with SPIEGEL about his country’s difficult relationship with the United States, the pressure to go to war, and the consequences of the wars in L
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Pervez Musharraf’s military rule has led to growing Talibanisation and rising al-Qaida influence in Pakistan. As internal opposition to his policies mounts, Shaun Gregory asks: how long will the United States continue to support him?
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It took the United States 139 years to get to 100 million people, and just 52 years to add another 100 million, back in 1967. Now, one day in October-after an interval of just 39 years-America will claim more than 300 million souls. The moment will be hai
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September 25, 2006 at 12:20 am
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Nunavut has passed legislation intended to keep the Inuit language from fading. As southern culture encroaches in the North, it will be a tough fight
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In this paper we provide a simple, credible method for assessing the effects of climate change on the quality of agricultural land and then apply this method using a rich set of data on the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. The basic idea is to us
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Once the most progressive city in the Arab world, Baghdad has been ravaged by war and bombings. Everyone wants out, but not everyone can afford to leave — and car bomb explosions are a daily fact of life.
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Romania’s media is a willing partner in the perpetuation of racism, prejudice and discrimination.
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Four large papers, long dominant in the Pulitzer sweepstakes, have tightened their stranglehold on the competition in the current decade. Why is that the case, and is there a better way?
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Kate Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her book, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize. As a historian
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This essay develops and refines our theory of constitutional change and constitutional revolutions, and applies it to the constitutional events of the last five years. We argue that constitutional change and constitutional revolutions occur through a pro
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This story is based on a special investigation conducted by Craig Pyes in Afghanistan on behalf of the Crimes of War Project and the Los Angeles Times. It is also based on further investigative work by Kevin Sack, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times
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“Outline of the Post-War New World Map as the U.S.A., with the cooperation of the Democracies of Latin-America, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, assumes world leadership for the establishment of a New World
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“I Don’t Want Money. I Want Trade Agreements” President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal was in Berlin recently to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. During a round table discussion organized by Deutsche Welle, he spoke with SPIEGEL ONLINE about the need for tr
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Agriculture offers the first serious alternatives to fossil fuels: Diesel, natural gas, and petroleum could give way in the future to “biomass” energy. As development continues apace, so too do concerns about the farmed fuels’ effectiveness.
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September 23, 2006 at 12:22 am
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September 22, 2006 at 12:23 am
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(For the purposes of this table, the Vermont Senate seat is counted as Democratic. Retiring Sen. James M. Jeffords serves as an Independent, but he is counted as a Democrat since he is allied with the Democrats and caucuses with the party in the Senate. A
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A website created as a memorial to the people, history, technology and the “Spirit of Service” of what was known as the “Bell System” prior to 1984.
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September 21, 2006 at 12:27 am
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September 20, 2006 at 12:26 am
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The Fisher Community site is dedicated to supporting the efforts of the students, staff and faculty of the Fisher Graduate School of International Business. The Fisher Community site provides information about events that occur on campus as well as those
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At long last, US congressional staff salaries are available for free on the web - and only here at LegiStorm. Who is employed by Congress, and how much they are paid, is often a source of fascination for the politically aware. Prior to this site’s creatio
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DEReC is an online resource centre managed by the DAC Network on Development Evaluation. Launched in November 2005, DEReC contains development evaluation reports and guidelines published by the Network and its 30 bilateral and multilateral members. DEReC
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USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios recently launched an Initiative to Revitalize Evaluations within the Agency. His four-part campaign aims to improve the way evaluations are done and used, as well as increase the number of evaluations conducted by missio
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September 19, 2006 at 12:23 am
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