Archive - Feb 8, 2010

Source: Reuters (Adds wife comment and scuffle details in paragraphs 7,11)

By Lucy Hornby

BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in ...

Source: Reuters By Emma Graham-Harrison

BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A new Chinese government survey of the country's environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the ...

- Kim Holmes, Fmr. Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs & Heritage Foundation-Foreign & Defense Policy, Vice President

- Mark Moyar, “A Question of Command” & U.S. Marine Corps University, National Security Affairs Professor

- Richard Norton Smith, Contributor, “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?” & George Mason University, Presidential Historian
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Published: Today at 7am (ET)

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AP - Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station.

President Grant signs the law creating what will become the Weather Bureau and eventually the National Weather Service.

AFP - Toyota announced Tuesday a recall of its popular Prius and two other hybrid models in Japan to fix faulty brakes, plunging the auto giant deeper into crisis as lawsuits in the United States piled up.

The Center for Responsive Politics will be closed Tuesday because of a snowstorm that has also caused Washington, D.C.-area federal government offices to remain shut for a second day.Center for Responsive Politics staff will return phone calls and e-mails when the Center reopens later this week.Members of the working press with urgent interview requests may on Tuesday call 817-917-4141.

AP - Vince Carter had a season-high 48 points, leading the Orlando Magic back from a 17-point second-half deficit to beat the New Orleans Hornets 123-117 on Monday night.

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are shayera, Lousiana 1976, Alfonso Nevarez, dopper0189, jennyjem and grog.

• In the history of corporations pt 5, Lenny Flank focuses on the nature of corporations during the New Deal and through WWII. (Alfonso Nevarez)
• DParker takes us back 80 years to the unlikely events that marked the start of the civil rights movement in Great moments in criminal defense: the Scottsboro boys. (grog)
• goinsouth offers some thoughts on how to Change Your Life -> Change the World. (shayera)
• indiemcemopants doesn't think that certain Americans should have to bide their time until they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and says, Just wait? NO. (jennyjem)
• erratic pens an evocative story of work with kids in low-income public housing: On positive conflict: James the Baptist. (grog)
• Disgusted by the barrage of Super Bowl Ads intended to convince viewers that men are hopelessly oppressed, cabaretic argues that Contrary to Some Voices, Masculinity is Not Under Attack. (Alfonso Nevarez)
• American Pie spots something suspicious in Defense Secretary Robert Gates rebidding of the contracts: Is Robert Gates Protecting a Criminal Enterprise? (dopper0189)
• SisTwo gives us her engrossing personal account of how and why she became The Salt-Free Me. (Louisiana 1976)

jotter gives us the day's High Impact Diaries: February 7, 2010, while virgomusic has Top Comments - A Heap of Coolness Edition.

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