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Political notebook: EPA official takes heat from Inhofe on comments
Tulsa World
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer US Sen. Jim Inhofe renewed his attack on the chief administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency region that includes Oklahoma. In a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor, Inhofe took the EPA's Al Armendariz ...
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Is Faith the Rejection of Reality?
Huffington Post
There seems to be a belief that "faith" is the rejection of the world as it is; a retreat in to fantasy and wishful thinking. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." Although it has become common to think of ...
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In praise of the humanities
Philadelphia Inquirer
In this era of budget cuts, nowhere is the critique more pointed than at the disciplines known as the humanities — philosophy, history, and literature, among them — where the knowledge students master is much harder to quantify than, say, ...
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From Springfield to the World, Ozark Mountain Daredevils celebrate 40 years
Columbia Daily Tribune
That philosophy makes it a lot more satisfying, he said. Dillon and Cash also are still in the band — the three have made up the core of the group for almost all of the 40 years — and they, along with a few others, still play all over Missouri.
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'What Money Can't Buy': putting a price on the public good
The Seattle Times
(April 29, 2012, by h bear) MORE by Michael J. Sandel Michael Sandel, a Harvard University professor, teaches one of the most popular college classes at the university and, perhaps, the world. His legendary "Justice" class has been taken by 15000 ...
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Speed over accuracy carries many risks
Dailyrecord.com
It also applies more and more to the chaotic world of Internet bloggers and tweeters, where the philosophy that animates cyberspace — speed trumps credibility — is mauling, if not killing, the reputation of traditional news organizations.
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Global Law Firm Requires a Global Vision
Wall Street Journal
The firm has had meteoric growth since it was formed in 2005 from the merger of DLA, Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary, and it now boasts the biggest roster of lawyers in the world—more than 4200, in 77 offices. Last year, the sprawling firm got an added ...
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Wealthy Namibian Tycoon Harold Pupkewitz Is Dead
Forbes (blog)
Kloppers, 50, is the head of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. Born in South Africa, Kloppers studied chemical engineering at the University of Pretoria, earned his MBA at INSEAD and completed his Doctorate at MIT.
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Forbes (blog)
London 2012 Olympics: profiles of previously banned Dwain Chambers, David ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Now 35, he is a member and part-owner of the American Garmin-Barracuda team, which shares his staunch anti-drugphilosophy, and he is an ambassador for the World Anti-Doping Agency. Last year published a biography detailing the pressures he was put ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The Biggest Cover-up in American History
Right Side News
Emer de Vattel, a Swiss scholar, published a now world famous work titled Law of Nations in French in 1758. The Vattel work built upon the earlierphilosophy of Natural Law, especially that of de Wolf. But what made Vattel's work so famous was his ...
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Plaudits
Calgary Herald
I am disappointed at the inflammatory headline over the article concerning the report by the World Society for the Protection of Animals. This organization is not animal rights; its philosophy is animal welfare, and because it dares to expose the ...
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What did god sound like to David Koresh and Charles Manson?
CNN (blog)
“For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. “For even though they knew God,...
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Spanish stars at risk of burning out
ESPN
It came two years ago before the World Cup final. And it's perhaps a timely reminder of just how long Spain's Barcelona-based players have been chasing history on all fronts... not to mention how far-reaching the effects of fatigue and pressure - both ...
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ESPN
World Labour Day on May 1
Business Recorder
KARACHI: The International Labour Day will be observed in the country on May 1 in solidarity with the people the world over who toil for earning their livelihood as labourers, workers and employees in various spheres of life.
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Herbie Hancock launches International Jazz Day in Paris, New Orleans, and NY
Examiner.com
At 72, he still tours the world with his quartet, and continues to turn out high-concept albums with apparent ease. Witness his 2010 GRAMMY®-winning,world-music mash-up The Imagine Project and before that, River: The Joni Letters, which won the top ...
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Al Qaeda's core scrambled, but affiliates pose threat
Hindustan Times
His affiliates, however, still remain a threat to the world. organisation that brought us (United States) 9/11 is essentially gone, but the movement... the ideology of the global jihad, bin Laden's philosophy — that survives in a variety of places ...
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Hindustan Times
Being A Mom Makes Beyonce Feel More Beautiful Than She's Ever Felt
Starpulse.com (blog)
BeyoBeyoncence is named PEOPLE's World's Most Beautiful Woman 2012 in the magazine's special double issue, now celebrating its 23rd year. This marks the ninth time the pop superstar singer and actress has made the coveted list.
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Starpulse.com (blog)
Injury turns dropout into maths genius!
gulfnews.com
He is the only person in the world known to possess the skill, which, experts say, was caused by his head injury. They believe the damage to Padgett's brain has left him with a 'remarkable gift' for figures. To understand how Padgett's brain works, ...
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Getting out of the box
Brisbane Times
A Melbourne primary school, with a strong focus on technology, is recognised by Microsoft as one of the world's most innovative schools. XBOX is the new hopscotch at Silverton Primary School. Set into the outside wall of the toilet block, ...
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Project Psycube Interview: Trevor Tocco and Violator Hellspawn
Examiner.com
The Project focuses on spiritual symbols and esoteric mechanisms within films, television, and comics, as well as their real world event correspondences. Gentleman, thank you for joining me on such short notice I know you are both very busy men.
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The wonderful world of women bloggers
Newcastle Herald (blog)
''I wanted to be a voice for that philosophy.'' The mother-of-two spends about five hours a day, often more, on both blogs. It took 18 months for her to build the ''brand'' and Makepeace is now making a part-time income from advertising (her travel ...
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SWAMPYVILLE'S - POLITICAL SLIDING SCALE - PART TWO!
Lawrence Journal World (blog)
Social liberal policies have been widely adopted in much of the capitalist world, particularly following World War II. Many are secularists and have complete belief in Darwinism. (Modern American liberalism) is a form of liberalism.
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Indian eco growth to continue despite policy paralysis: Lakshmi Mittal
Daily News & Analysis
Mittal had in Bhatinda yesterday stated that his philosophy was not to complain about policies but to adapt to them. "We have businesses all over theworld. I tell my guys don't complain about the policies, try to adopt... We don't complain.
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The Advertising Creatives Behind the Most-Inspired Work
AdAge.com
To help you put faces and names to the ideas changing the brand-marketingworld and to uncover the talent who have been flying below your radar, we once again bring you our annual list of creatives to know. There's much to learn from the folks featured ...
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Book Review: The Greyhound God by Keith Lee Morris
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
We learn that he doesn't believe in God, that he had interesting debates withphilosophy professors when he was in school. We also learn that he didn't finish school, and instead became pretty much a vagabond, meeting Jenny along the way.
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Paths blend health, fitness
San Angelo Standard Times
Tai chi practitioners throughout the world on Friday evening and Saturday celebrated World Tai Chi and Chi Kung Day with free outdoor workshops and demonstrations. San Angelo's Saturday celebration of Chi Kung, the indigenous wellness system in China, ...
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Consultant offers software for sustainability reports: Michael Zeller sees ...
San Jose Mercury News
This gets at the philosophy of our company - helping companies to understand that waste and inefficiency have huge impacts not just on their bottom lines but on surrounding communities and ecosystems.
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Crucifying Oil and Gas on a Cross Made of You and Me
Town Hall
The revelation of the EPA's “philosophy” used in their regulation of oil and gas companies—“crucify” and “make examples” of, just as the Romans crucified random citizens in areas they conquered to ensure obedience—provides proof of what many have ...
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Can't get a philosophy job? Why not go out and try to change the ...
By annejjacobson
Still, when we think of what we might do other than teach philosophy, it might be worth shaking things up for a bit and looking at something entirely different, as Monty Python might say. Elizabeth does say one should start with some area one ...
Feminist Philosophers
NOVUM: A New Look At Yourself, Society, and the World
By Jo W.
world famous philosopher, Professor Dreyfus earned three degrees inphilosophy from Harvard University. His main interests include phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the ...
Caliber Magazine
{ nikuko } alan sondheim { jennifer }: What's Left: The Crisis of ...
By alan
What's Left: The Crisis of Philosophy and Thought in the World (I've been thinking along these lines for quite a while now, skittering from one article or book of physics/cosmology to another. Now a similar debate is occurring, from Scientific ...
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Tempest in a Teapot. Philosophy-v-Physics. « Lamentations on ...
By gaussling
A minor snit has broken out between outspoken physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University and, well, the philosophers of the world. Krauss has become a darling of the cable TV world of NatGeo and the Science Channel. It seems ...
Lamentations on Chemistry
Great Books, Good Works » General Studies | Blog Archive | Boston ...
By Robert Oresick
Participating students told the researchers that service “highlightedphilosophy's relevance to the 'real world.'” Cordner says that feedback from her students supports Seider's study. “I definitely notice a higher level of engagement and rigor ...
General Studies
Live: The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World Gets Honored At The ...
Still Better Than The Beatles: A Tribute To The Shaggs / A Benefit for the Fremont , N.H. Historical Society &...
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The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World" Gets All Classicalized | Line ...
Those cheeky virtuosi in Alarm Will Sound have draped their classy classical formalism over the Shaggs' ramshackle klutz-pop chestnut “Philosophy of the...
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The World is Flat… To Some Philosophers « Larval Subjects .
Levi, you write: “Invariably I find some variant of the hylomorphic assumption in every argument against materialism. It's always the same old saw: matter is ...
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GREEN: Classic philosophy provides better understanding about ...
It was less than a year ago that philosopher Allan Bloom entered my life, yet I can' t ... No individual has so challenged my world view, assaulted my value ...
www.dailynebraskan.com/.../green-classic-philosophy-provide...
Read This, Not That · Physics and Philosophy in a World Without ...
Physics and Philosophy in a World Without Meaning In this engrossing interview for The Atlantic, Ross Anderson talks with theoretical physicist Lawrence ...
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Blizzard's Core Battleground Philosophy - Forums - World of Warcraft
In the past, there was an experiment conducted by Blizzard in implementing a death-match based "Battleground." Upon completion of testing, Blizzard chose to ...
us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4768477163
Video: Okon explains his philosophy: The World Game on SBS
Paul Okon is Australia's new U-20 national team coach and explains where he thinks development is currently at and what his role will encompass., Visit SBS...
theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/.../Okon-explains-his-philoso...
Philosophy and the World | Q&A | ABC TV
Audience: ALP 35%, Coalition 46.5%, Greens 13%. Discuss the Questions. Here are the ...
www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3473507.htm
World, Politics & Philosophy | purposeofgodannex.com
'Morally, a thinker who makes use of his qualified competence intended for anything Peña Nieto a disinterested find truth can be guilty of a sort of treachery'.
purposeofgodannex.com/?p=47
Read The Phantom World / The philosophy of spirits‚ apparitions‚ &c ...
Read The Phantom World / The philosophy of spirits‚ apparitions‚ &c‚ &c. online by Augustin Calmet at ReadCentral.com, the free online library full of thousands ...
www.readcentral.com/.../Read-The-Phantom-World-or-The-p...
philosophy of science | The World According to Quantum Mechanics
Do these philosophy-of-science types really still believe in an “eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world”? Relativistic quantum fields are ...
perfect-sense.in/wp/tag/philosophy-of-science/
What's Left: The Crisis of Philosophy and Thought in the World ...
What's Left: The Crisis of Philosophy and Thought in the World (I've been thinking along these lines for quite a while now, skittering from one article or book of ...
www.furtherfield.org/.../whats-left-crisis-philosophy-and-thou...

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