How America Can Avoid Collapse

Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Don't call me a "declinist."� I really don't believe the United States""or Western civilization, more generally""is in some kind of gradual, inexorable decline.But that's not because I am one of those incorrigible optimists who agree with Winston Churchill that the United States will always do the right thing, albeit when all other possibilities have been exhausted.In my view, civilizations don't rise, fall, and then gently decline, as inevitably and predictably as the four seasons or the seven ages of man. History isn't one...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/11/01/how_america_can_avoid_collapse_266437.html

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Mosquitoes Engineered To Kill Their Own Kind

Reporting in Nature Biotechnology, researchers write of genetically engineering mosquitoes to pass lethal genes to their offspring, in hopes of crashing populations of one dengue-transmitting species. Science writer Bijal Trivedi talks about recent tests of the bugs, and the concerns of critics.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/142024622/mosquitoes-engineered-to-kill-their-own-kind?ft=1&f=1007

john mccain

How An Elegant Moth Stays Aloft

To feed, the hawk moth unrolls a long proboscis, sticks it in a flower like a straw, and slurps up nectar. It looks like a hummingbird feeding. Like the hummingbird, the moth has to be stable in the air to get a drink. Biologist Ty Hedrick filmed the moths with high-speed video to try to understand how they hold steady.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/142024620/how-an-elegant-moth-stays-aloft?ft=1&f=1007

sarah palin

'Darkhorse' Battalion And The Afghan War

This past week, All Things Considered has been sharing stories about the Darkhorse Battalion ? that's the Marine unit that suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit during the 10-year Afghan war. NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman wraps up the series today, as he tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan about some of the people he met ? both on the battlefield and on the home front.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/05/142061223/darkhorse-battalion-and-the-afghan-war?ft=1&f=1004

al sharpton

Cain Adds to ?9-9-9? Plan, Angering Unions

Taking aim at minimum wage laws, union protections, and even local building codes, Herman Cain has put the finishing touches on the last missing piece of his signature ?9-9-9? plan ? an elaborate proposal to create ?opportunity zones? in inner-city America that the GOP presidential candidate will unveil during a major campaign appearance in Detroit on Friday morning.


Source: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/uYFT-bVXNOg/

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LaHood: GOP Doesn't Care About Jobs

Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Democrats aren't alone anymore in sounding the alarm about the paralysis gripping Congress these days. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former congressman and the lone Republican in the Cabinet, says he believes his own party has put defeating President Obama ahead of creating jobs in America."I've been in Washington 35 years"¦ and I've never seen a time when people have put their own personal political feelings over how we can get the economy moving," LaHood told Newsweek and The Daily Beast in a wide-ranging interview.Even in the wake of a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/11/01/lahood_gop_doesn039t_care_about_jobs_266507.html

sarah palin