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...Murkowski rewarded her strong campaign by appointing her chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, an obscure but important board that regulates oil-field production. In her short tenure, she gained attention not for her grasp of technical detail but for making public ethics accusations against a fellow board member who happened to be chairman of the state Republican Party. She resigned in protest, leaving the $122,400 job after a year. (He was later fined for, among other things, sending confidential information to an industry lobbyist.) But Palin emerged with the image of a bold reformer...
...lives, and moreover, how our wild behavior may someday squelch our dreams of achieving national political office (oh, wait, never mind). Perhaps in the name of involving campus leaders, the administration could additionally call on members of True Love Revolution, Harvard’s leading abstinence promoter, to enlighten fellow students about the dangers of premarital sex with respect to sleep-deprivation. Other solutions may be sought, but at the very least, something must be done to avert this impending disaster...
...added that after receiving the award, she received e-mails from friends she hadn’t talked to in years, including her chemistry Teaching Fellow and her high school art teacher...
Putnam and fellow researcher Thomas H. Sander plan to use the $275,618 grant to study how social context affects volunteering and civic participation. Both men are involved with the Saguaro Seminar, which works to improve the measurement of social capital—the set of resources, available in social networks, that lead people to help and get help from their connections—and studies this information to develop ways to improve civic involvement...
...hard to pinpoint exactly why these animals are so darn cute; maybe it's their small size relative to their fellow primates. Maybe it's their flirty, innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...