from Spiegel By Bernhard Zand Translated from German by Christopher Sultan The Arab world to which Abdullah had returned was no longer the same one it had been a few weeks earlier, when he left for New York. When Abdullah arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh last Wednesday, it was no longer just [...]
Archive for March 11th, 2011
March 11th, 2011 - 11:04 am § in Politics
TOWN HALL MEETINGS! in Seattle.
REMINDER: This Saturday several Seattle area state representatives will be holding Town Hall meetings. Two of the most important: Sen. Adam Kline Town Hall Meeting at Garfield Community Center Where: Garfield Community Center, 2323 East Cherry St When: Saturday, March 12 at 10:00 AM House Speake[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 10:48 am § in Schools & Colleges
Washington Students Call on University President to Step Down Because of His Excess Expenditures,
Washington Post: Student leaders at the University of the District of Columbia called for the resignation of President Allen Sessoms on Monday in a noon protest, alleging that the administrator has spent lavishly on himself while raising tuition and cutting programs at Washington’s public univ[...]
SRO Crowd Reclaims Democracy for Real People
SEATTLE, March 11 -- Last night a SRO crowd flocked to UW's Kane Hall to brainstorm strategy and tactics in the fight against the legal fiction of corporate personhood underpinning the CITIZENS decision. Titled After Citizens United: Reclaiming Democracy for PEOPLE, the event was sponsored by Washin[...]
An Open Letter from WI Senator Chris Larson
This is Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson -- and today, I'm heading home to Wisconsin to join the fight in person. The last three weeks have shown what progressive strength and worker solidarity look like. My fellow senators and I know that thousands of PCCC members in Wisconsin and across the[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 9:59 am § in America
While the tea spills, know-nothings are expelling essential foreigners from the USA.
A third of America’s entrepreneurs come from the “other world.” The US University system is a magnet for two reasons … our great universities and our entrepreneurial economy. Now we are weakening our universities, ignoring the international education market and joining Ar[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 7:30 am § in Schools & Colleges
Redefining the term “doctor.”
Australia is addressing part of its higher ed problem by redefining the term “doctor.” … excerpted from the Australian Under the new system, there would be three kinds of master’s degree. masters by coursework, masters by research and a new extended masters. Some of these ext[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 7:25 am § in Misc.
JAPAN .. EARTHQUAKE
TSUNAMI SWEEPS PACIFIC Massive 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake 80 Miles From Japan …[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 6:22 am § in Science
Biology: Origins of us.
Ed. for the non biologist … one of the REAL missing links is understanding how single cells come together to form a multicellular organisms … from The Scientist: The results, published this week in Science, add to a growing body of evidence that the genetic toolkit for multicellularity e[...]