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...China, will negate any benefits of offshore drilling. While H.R. 6899 contains several notable measures designed to move the United States towards a cleaner and more renewable energy profile, it is important to remember that the simplest way to address the energy issue to tackle the basic problem: Seventy percent of American oil consumption goes into the transportation sector. Given that the United States currently has the lowest automobile fuel-efficiency standards in the developed world, we need a combination of more stringent regulations, such as closing the “light truck” loophole for sport utility vehicles...
...CONVERTED Contributing to the time of possession woes was the fact that Harvard, among the nation’s leaders in defensive third down conversion percentage a year ago, struggled to get the opposing offense off the field. Brown was 8-for-18 on third down, a 44.4 percent clip, double the percentage that opponents converted last season. Holy Cross had less success against the Crimson in the season opener, going just 3-for-14. Harvard allowed just 31 third-down conversions all season in 2007, including holding Brown to a 1-for-12 mark in last year?...
...trailed after the event: as the media prognosticates the exchange’s potential effects, Sen. John McCain has shown his post-Machiavellian stripes by naming any ‘tie’ declared an effective win for his camp. Meanwhile, a USA Today/Gallup poll declared Saturday that 46 percent of viewers thought Obama had won, while only 34 percent had sided with the Republican—there goes McCain’s audacious proclamation...
...particular interest is a 2005 psychology paper published in Science by Alexander Todorov of Princeton and his colleagues, which concludes that “rapid, unreflective trait inferences can contribute to voting choices,” rather than deliberative reasoning. In trials the researchers vindicated their hypothesis: Almost 72 percent of Senate race outcomes were successfully predicted simply by showing a sample of the electorate pictures of the candidates for whom they could vote for milliseconds at a time, and asking them to make snap judgments on those candidates’ competence...
Davis, Rick •millions of dollars received from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's financial relationship with is revealed by New York Times •New York Times is excoriated as being "150 percent in the tank" for Obama...