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...mail exchange, Mann and Jones discuss ways to pressure an academic journal Climate Research to stop publishing submissions from climate skeptics, with Mann suggesting that they consider encouraging colleagues not to submit papers to the journal until it changes its editorial stance. Jones also wrote repeatedly about rebuffing requests by climate skeptics for raw temperature data from CRU, and seemingly encourages his colleagues to delete e-mails concerning a Freedom of Information request for the data...
...examination knows, and scientists aren't shy about attacking ideas they believe are wrong - especially in private communication. Still, Jones et al. could have been more open and accepting of their critics, and if it turns out that e-mails were deleted in response to the Freedom of Information request for data, heads should roll. (Jones maintains that no e-mails or documents were deleted...
...over whether the pro-choice lawmaker should be allowed to receive Communion. On Nov. 20, the son of the late Ted Kennedy told the Providence Journal that Tobin had ordered him not to partake of the sacrament--an accusation the bishop later denied, saying it had been merely a request. The spat is the latest between Tobin and Kennedy, who sparred in October after Kennedy criticized church leaders for supporting the veto of a health care bill unless it included restrictions on federal funding of abortion...
...school is ill equipped to protect its students. "We don't even have a security guard equipped with weapons," he says. He says he can't handle a dangerous situation and that the students and staff feel vulnerable. If a suicide bomber targeted the school, "we could only request him not to explode...
While this sounds rosy enough, even interest-free money isn’t ever really free. Rather than use its economic leverage to stamp out corruption or push for human rights, as the West does, China’s demand is instead a request that African markets open up to the dumping of Chinese products, that participating governments refuse to recognize Taiwan, and that any development contracts are forged exclusively with Chinese companies...