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  1. Michelle Obama's Fashion Home Run (CBS News)
      "The would-be first lady's fashion flair is already grabbing attention -- she's being closely watched as a possible budding fashion icon -- and most observers the outfit she selected for the big event clicked." 08-08

  2. Fashion Design Schools (Fashion-School-Finder.com)
      Provides colleges and schools by designer, location, or profession. Awesome Library does not endorse these listings, but provides them as examples. 9-04

  3. Fashion Icon Liz Claiborne Dies (ABC News)
      "Fashion designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78." 06-07

  4. Mind Mapping (Cave)
      Mind maps help organize information in an associative fashion to enhance memory and understanding. 3-01

  5. Formative Leadership (MiddleWeb.com - Ash and Persall)
      "In the information economy, most successful organizations must be knowledge-based, value-added enterprises. Such an environment requires schools to be true learning organizations where students are engaged in challenging and interesting academic work and where teachers and administrators are collaboratively involved in learning about the most effective instructional strategies and technologies."

      "Leadership is not role-specific, reserved only for administrators. Rather the job of the school leader is to fashion learning opportunities for the faculty and staff in order that they might develop into productive leaders. This theory of leadership supports our view of the teacher as leader and the principal as the leader of leaders. It is grounded in the belief that educators should enhance not only student learning but also the learning of the adults within the school." 7-02

  6. -10-21-04 Russia's Putin Endorses Bush (RussiaJournal.com)
      "Now Bush has been given an endorsement – something he probably did not ask for, and hardly needs – from Vladimir Putin. The first result of that endorsement is that the Russian TV and press controlled by the Kremlin will also endorse Bush, in their fashion." 10-04

  7. Analysis of Exit Polls (Solarbus.org - Beckwith)
      Shows how the results from the 2004 election differed from the 2000 results and provides alternative explanations for why the exit poll results favored Bush in a statistically impossible fashion. 2-05

  8. Bio-Fuels From Genetics (VenterInstitute.org)
      "According to the U.S. Department of Energy approximately 80 percent of all human-caused carbon dioxide emissions currently come from fossil fuel combustion. The DOE also estimates that world carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 6.1 billion metric tons carbon equivalent in 1999 to 7.9 billion metric tons per year in 2010 and to 9.9 billion metric tons in 2020. This continued consumption of fossil fuels is ample evidence that there is a growing need to eliminate carbon dioxide output into the environment and if possible capture back some of the carbon dioxide associated with global warming. The Biological Energy group is developing and using biological pathways and microbial metabolism to produce new fuels with higher energy output in an environmentally sound fashion. The team uses microbes, microbial genomics, microbial pathways, and plants as potential solutions to carbon sequestration and clean energy production. Current projects include: development of better understanding and reengineering of the photosynthetic pathway to divert the sun’s energy into more hydrogen production as well as reengineering cellulase pathways in certain bacterial to produce ethanol." 11-05

  9. Sequestering CO2 (National Resources Defense Council)
      "Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of man-made CO2, accounting for one quarter to one third of the world's total."

      "We now stand at a watershed moment. An entire generation of obsolete coal-fired power plants built in the 1950s and 1960s needs to be replaced, and U.S. utility companies have announced their intention of building more than 100 new coal plants over the next 10 to 15 years. Unless something happens soon to tilt the balance toward more environmentally benign alternatives, nearly all of those power plants will use the old-fashioned, intrinsically dirty technology known as pulverized coal."

      "Coal fuels 90 percent of China's electricity demand. That demand is increasing so rapidly that China expects to expand its generating capacity over the next 30 years by 300,000 MW, or almost half of America's current consumption. As matters now stand, nearly all of China's projected new capacity will use standard pulverized coal technology." 12-05

  10. Energy Efficiency Leadership by California (NRDC.org) star
      "Since 2001, California has bounced back, fashioning a new framework of utility regulations that places greater emphasis on efficiency than ever before. Through 2008, utility companies plan to spend $2 billion -- a record for any state -- to help Californians save energy. The investment will yield a net gain of $3 billion in economic benefits for the state by reducing utility bills. 'This efficiency campaign will avoid the need to build three large power plants,' says Brian Prusnek, a senior staff member at the California Public Utilities Commission. 'In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, that's the equivalent of taking 650,000 cars off the road. How many other investments yield a 50 percent financial return and reduce pollution?' " 03-06

  11. -11-29-06 Study: This Is Your Brain on Violent Videogames (MSNBC News)
      "The important thing is that parents should be aware that there are at least short-term effects on brain functioning that we show. The fact that we’re showing this in experimental fashion should raise concern that exposure to this could result in some longer-term changes." 11-06

  12. Hypermiling (MotherJones.com)
      "on a midsummer saturday in a sprawling wisconsin parking lot, about a dozen people are milling about a candy-apple red Honda Insight. They're watching Wayne Gerdes prepare for his run in Hybridfest's mpg Challenge, a 20-mile race through the streets of Madison. Wayne is the odds-on favorite to win the challenge, in which drivers compete to push the automotive limits not of speed and power—a desire those gathered here consider old-fashioned and wasteful—but for the unsexy title of Most Fuel-Efficient Driver in the World." 06-08

  13. Making Big Decisions? Don't Sleep on It (MSNBC News)
      "When it comes to making life-changing decisions, neither snap judgments nor 'sleeping on it' trump good old-fashioned conscious thought, new research suggests." 09-08

  14. Blue Whales (A-Z Animals)
      "Blue Whales are the largest recorded mammal on earth some reaching nearly 120ft!The blue whale is found in pretty much all oceans but the whales tend to prefer the warmer waters."

      "The blue whale has been nearly hunted to extinction by man when eastern Asian whaling came into fashion a few of hundred years ago. There are less than 12,000 blue whales left worldwide." 01-09

  15. Why Chimps Attack (Time.com)
      "No matter how many years it has lived peacefully as a pet, a chimpanzee is not a domesticated animal and can snap without warning. "They are wild animals, and all wild animals are potentially dangerous," says Colleen McCann, a primatologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and New York's Bronx Zoo. 'They are not pets. This is tragic, but it's not surprising.' "

      "But adult chimpanzees might be better described as superhuman — a 200-lb. chimpanzee is five to seven times stronger than a person of the same size, especially in the upper body."

      "Nor are wild chimpanzees the docile, childlike creatures portrayed on TV. Highly territorial, chimpanzees will attack and kill other chimps. Though mostly vegetarian, they will also hunt and kill other animals for food; young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat." 02-09

  16. -09-12-09 Bizarre Ending to Semifinal (ESPN)
      "Serena Williams' U.S. Open title defense ended in bizarre, ugly fashion Saturday night, when she was penalized a point on match point after yelling and shaking her racket in the direction of an official who called a foot fault."

      "Williams lost to unseeded, unranked Kim Clijsters 6-4, 7-5 in a taut semifinal that featured plenty of powerful groundstrokes by both women. No one will remember a single shot that was struck, though, because of the unusual, dramatic way it finished." 09-09

  17. No Child Left Behind - Scientifically Based Research (NoChildLeft.com - McKenzie)
      "It is now fashionable for federal bureaucrats to cloak their interference in what amounts to pseudoscience."

      "The identification of so-called effective programs was accomplished by setting up false selection rules, unreasonable criteria and narrow goals. It was the equivalent of blind judging. The rules effectively eliminated many deserving programs from review (and approval) before anyone even considered them. The rules were tilted toward a narrow definition of reading and a narrow definition of research. The effect was to focus in on programs with great results on limited goals. We suddenly face the specter of strong armed imposition of phonics programs, especially upon urban students in poorly performing schools even though there is little evidence that they become better students in the long run." 12-03

  18. -05-26-05 Lawsuits Against Counties Abusing Detainees (ABC News)
      "Linda Rose says she spent three hours crouched in the corner of a concrete cell at the Saginaw County Jail, shivering and sobbing, after deputies stripped her of her clothes and left her naked in front of a surveillance camera."

      "In a class-action lawsuit against the San Francisco County Jail, hundreds of people say they were left naked in isolation for extended periods. In Iowa, a woman was awarded $2,500 after a federal jury found her privacy had been violated in 1996 when jail guards strapped her naked in spread-eagle fashion to a restraining board."

      "In Saginaw, inmates placed in an isolation cell because of threatening or disruptive behavior automatically were forced to strip, regardless of whether guards believed the person might attempt suicide. Such a blanket policy of naked detention for troublemakers is highly unusual, said Richard Tewksbury, a corrections expert at the University of Louisville." 5-05

  19. Vocational Training (WorldWideLearn.com)
      "Hospitality, travel & tourism, interior decorating, fashion design, paralegal, firefighting, construction, medical transcription. Online and distance learning vocational training courses and certificate programs let you train for a new career or job on your own time." 10-06

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