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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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Silverberg Slows Down: "Prolific SF author Robert Silverberg told SCI FI Wire that he will slow down now that he has reached the age of 70, with 98 novels, 44 collections, inclusion in 109 anthologies, five Nebulas, four Hugos and the Grand Master Award for a career that began in 1954."
(Via Sci Fi Wire.)
2:18:04 PM 
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The stench of...: "The stench of death is everywhere around Social Security privatization. Today the Washington Post publishes an analysis of its poll showing support for Bush on Social Security is falling yet again. Meanwhile, in the New York Times, David Brooks writes..."
(Via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall.)
A good post; maybe we're not as selfish as the Republicans thought we were?
11:17:05 AM
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Guard, Reserve Service Takes High Financial Toll: "Forty percent of American troops in Iraq are from National Guard and Reserve units. The repeated and lengthy tours of duty those units are facing in Iraq have left some families struggling to pay the bills, with little support from the military."
(Via NPR's Morning Edition.)
"Support the troops." How many families of National Guard reservists are living in cars or on the street?
10:31:58 AM
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How long will global warming last?: "Guest commentary from David Archer (U. Chicago)
The notion is pervasive in the popular and scientific literature that the lifetime of anthropogenic CO2 released to the atmosphere is some fuzzy number measured most conveniently in decades or centuries. The reality is that the CO2 from a gallon out ..."
(Via RealClimate.)
10:29:36 AM
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