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With time to spare in the cab, Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone...
...PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER MUSEUM in Punxsutawney, Pa. The site is "an easy target" because of its groundhog fame, says Paul Feenstra, an aide to Representative John Peterson, who got the cash. "But [it] helps kids learn about weather science and history." --By Douglas Waller
...this time, when they were allowed to move into their own homes, they were still subject to constant surveillance, beatings and, occasionally, torture. For example, according to Jenkins, in the summer of his first year teaching, the short-sleeve shirts he began to wear to class with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife...
These projects might seem harmless enough. (After all, who doesn’t love historic bathhouses and weather folklore?) But what Peterson and his fellow champions of pet projects presumably won’t be including in their glossy re-election campaign brochures is that Congress also approved an adjustment to the chronically under-funded Pell Grant program, the principal means by which American students receive need-based government grants to attend college. Eligibility for the awards is determined in part by an examination of state tax information, but lawmakers chose to use tax tables that were out of date...
...assume that the irony of their simultaneous pork barrel spending is lost on the rest of us. It seems that, for now, economically disadvantaged students hoping for a college education will just have to settle for a trip to Pennsylvania and a crash course in weather history instead...