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Clarence Mitchell, the family's spokesman, said that the close of the investigation could provide a degree of vindication for the McCanns, who last September were officially named "arguidos" - Portuguese legal jargon for "suspects."
The digitization of political data isn't new. Year after year, fund-raising information has been emerging in steadily growing volume. What's new in 2008 is the usability of the information, the collaborative ways in which sites are linking data together and the degree to which the new tools...
The new study found that while gentrification did not necessarily push out original residents, it did create neighborhoods that middle-class minorities moved to. The addition of white college graduates, especially those under 40 without children, was a hallmark of gentrifying neighborhoods - that much fit the conventional wisdom - but so...
Eminent thinkers, from Tolstoy to contemporary philosophers like Martha Nussbaum and George Kateb, have denounced patriotism on exactly those grounds: that it's wrong to prefer one's countrymen and -women to people in other lands. Patriotism, in Kateb's words, is illiberal; it "is an attack on the Enlightenment...
Schipper also estimates a savings of 4% for every degree warmer you push your thermostat. If you're set at 70deg.F now and move it to 75deg.-a comfortable, if slightly chilly number to my mind-you save 20% of the cost and energy of your air-conditioning bill. Schipper...