White House Web Presence Gets Mediocre Marks From Tech Experts

April 27, 2009

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was an online juggernaut, and the new administration has proposed to use that technological wizardry to make government more transparent. But while new media observers give the team’s two most ambitious Web sites — the overhaul of WhiteHouse.gov and the stimulus-tracking Recovery.gov — an “A” for effort, the consensus is that […]

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Corporate Blogs and Tweets Running Afoul of SEC

April 27, 2009

An eBay Inc. effort to broaden communication through the popular Twitter Web-messaging service highlights the hurdles facing corporate users of online social media. The online auctioneer launched a corporate blog in April 2008. Two months later, blogger Richard Brewer-Hay began “tweeting” — posting updates on Twitter — about Silicon Valley technology conferences, eBay’s quarterly earnings […]

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Petraeus Suggests Shipping Industry Should Arm Up to Stop Piracy

April 27, 2009

WASHINGTON – The global shipping industry should consider placing armed guards on its boats to ward off pirates who have become increasingly violent, the U.S. military commander who oversees the African coastline said Friday.

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Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam

April 27, 2009

JAKARTA, Indonesia — From Pakistan to Gaza and Lebanon, militant Islamic movements have gained ground rapidly in recent years, fanning Western fears of a consolidation of radical Muslim governments. But here in the world’s most populous Muslim nation just the opposite is happening, with Islamic parties suffering a steep drop in popular support.

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Sarah Palin's Energy Plan Comes Under Criticism From the Right

April 27, 2009

Last month, our friends over at the Heartland Institute published a front-page lead story in the April, 2009 edition of Environment & Climate News .

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Scientists Generating Safer Stem Cells From Adult, not Embryonic, Sources

April 27, 2009

WASHINGTON: Scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough in generating safer stem cells from adult cells, a discovery which can spark the development of many new types of therapies for people.

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Obama Administration Turns to Headhunters to Fill Key Positions

April 27, 2009

The Obama administration has been working with some of the nation’s top headhunters to recruit candidates to join the executive branch. Administration officials have privately expressed frustration that they are struggling to hire talented personnel for key slots across the federal government, noting President Obama’s tough restrictions on lobbyists working for him.

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Lomborg: Don’t Waste Time Cutting Emissions

April 27, 2009

We are often told that tackling global warming should be the defining task of our age — that we must cut emissions immediately and drastically. But people are not buying the idea that, unless we act, the planet is doomed. Several recent polls have revealed Americans’ growing skepticism. Solving global warming has become their lowest […]

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On Brink of Extinction, Chrysler Reaches Deal With UAW

April 27, 2009

Chrysler LLC reaches a deal with the unions, getting significant concessions that will likely delay, though certainly not avoid for good, the prospects of bankruptcy. They had until the end of the month to keep the funds coming from the US Treasury, which has already sent along more than $4.5B in taxpayer money.

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Abortion Foes Turn to Rogue Online Tactics Against Planned Parenthood

April 27, 2009

Twenty year old Lila Rose poses as a teenager seeking an abortion who was impregnated by an older man. And over and over again, the clinics ignore the law on such cases: “Since 2006, Rose has orchestrated undercover ‘stings’ at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis.” Now, it’s online.

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