4/12/17

"Congress is closed for the next two weeks so members of Congress can be home. That means if you want to tell your member of Congress how you feel on any specific topic, such as your thoughts on the repeal of your broadband privacy rights or the upcoming debate on network neutrality, you have enormous opportunities that will not last long."





".... children with access to safe outdoor green spaces have the ability to participate in active play, building essential critical thinking skills and supporting positive physical development. "




Summarization , Details - 

pertaining to current conflict (s) in Syria, (AJE)


"technocrat, wrote a letter "




" But what the state of emergency that Sisi ordered on Sunday does, it grants him exceptional powers, for example, to use state security emergency courts to try suspects. These are courts where the verdicts cannot be appealed by any other court, where the president can appoint army officers to sit on the judicial panel. It also gives him the right to impose curfews, to -- greater rights to impose censorship. It gives broader authority to the army to have jurisdiction that is usually reserved for law enforcement"


"Trivialization is a step towards denial, and denial is the landmark of repetition. "


"In their 1987 book, “Right Turn,” the political scientists Joel Rogers and Thomas Ferguson presented public-opinion data demonstrating that Reagan’s crusade against activist government, which was widely understood to be the source of his popularity, was not, in fact, particularly popular."


"At first, the idea of an archive seems straightforward: an official repository of items that hold some kind of public or historical interest. But it’s all too easy to take that definition for granted without unpacking what lies beneath. Who has the power to make something official? Which public’s interests are being catered to? Whose histories do we deem worthy of preservation?"




"It boils down to money - and what I quickly learned was an eagerness on the part of spyware companies to close multi-million dollar deals, regardless of the potential for their equipment to fall into the wrong hands."




"The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in 2008 when it exempted farms from two federal laws that require businesses to report when they release hazardous chemicals into the air, a federal appeals court held on Tuesday."


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"Graphene has proven itself as a wonder material with a vast range of unique properties. Among the least-known marvels of graphene is its strange love affair with water."




"While the draft budget for the EPA obtained by the Washington Post this month shows massive cuts to environment, health, and climate change programs—including the elimination of a program to prevent childhood exposure to lead paint—it also includes a request to hire 10 additional security guards to create an around-the-clock personal security detail for Pruitt, the New York Times reports."

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