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- Issues - Stephen Hawking's Universe (PBS - Hawking)
Provides theoretical papers related to the nature of the universe.
- Austin, Stephen F. (The West Film Project and WETA)
Provides a short biography of the man who "established the first Anglo-American colony in the Tejas province of Mexico and saw it grow into an independent republic," which later became Texas. 6-02
- Wolfram, Stephen (StephenWolfram.com)
Provides a list of articles and interviews related to Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science. Visitors sometimes misspell as Steven. 8-02
- Consume and Discard Lifestyles Not Sustainable (StephenWolfram.com)
" 'We continue to depend on a series of ancient, genetically and socially determined habits and attitudes, many of which seem to have been more suitable for our hunter-gatherer ancestors,' " he [Peter Raven] says. " 'We must adopt new ways of thinking that will serve our descendants well in a world that is crowded beyond imagining, a world in which we shall always be the major ecological force. Unless, of course, we destroy ourselves.' " 8-02
- Biko, Stephen (About.com)
Steve Bantu Biko was the "founder and martyr of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa." 5-03
- Biko, Stephen (Greenwood Arts)
Provides a short biography and a pastel portrait of Biko. 5-03
- Hawking, Stephen (Artzia.com)
"His work has been concerned with cosmology in a variety of aspects, dealing with black holes, singularities, and the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. His popular writing is also notable, especially A Brief History of Time (1988)." 10-04
- Stephen Hawking - Biography (BBC)
Provides a short biography.
- Stephen Hawking - Interview (BBC)
Provides an audio interview with Hawking. 1-05
- Stephen Baldwin Becomes Evangelical Leader (ABC News)
"For most of his career, Stephen Baldwin, the youngest of Hollywood's four famous Baldwin brothers, cultivated a reputation as a bad boy, both on screen and off."
"But Stephen Baldwin, the man born into Hollywood royalty, has been born again. Just how exactly did the guy who played a crook in critically-acclaimed 'The Usual Suspects,' and a stoner in the bomb 'Biodome,' become an evangelical Christian youth minister?" 11-06
- Debate, Stephen Fry: Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World? (YouTube.com)
Provides a debate with two arguing "for" and two arguing "against" with an audience voting on the winners and losers. (4 of 5)
- Red Badge of Courage - Crane, Stephen
- John Snow - Comments on Nominations of John Snow and Stephan Friedman (Townhall.com - Kudlow)
"Apparently, Vice President Dick Cheney quietly led a search team that came up with Snow. In contrast, the White House loudly leaked the name of investment banker Stephen Friedman to replace Larry Lindsey as head of the National Economic Council. Neither the stock market nor the rest of the world (nor me) knows much about these men." 12-02
- Justices - Supreme Court Judge Scalia Socializes With Cheney Before Hearing (CBS News)
"Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions."
"While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out."
"Federal law says 'any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned,' the Times notes."
"Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, told the Times Scalia should have skipped going hunting with Cheney this year."
" 'A judge may have a friendship with a lawyer, and that's fine. But if the lawyer has a case before the judge, they don't socialize until it's over. That shows a proper respect for maintaining the public's confidence in the integrity of the process,' said Gillers, who is an expert on legal ethics." 2-04
- History of Debates (Debates.org)
Provides photos from presidential debates, starting with 1948. Also includes material about the Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas debates of 1858. 10-04
- -09-12-05 Largest Migration in US History (CBS News)
""This is the biggest resettlement in American history. A whole city has been uprooted," says Stephen Kleinberg, a sociology professor at Rice University in Houston."
"If nothing else, the resettlement is already a story in state-to-state generosity. As of Sunday, there were an estimated 374,000 hurricane Katrina refugees in shelters, hotels, homes and other housing in 34 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Red Cross and state relief officials."
"The total number of refugees may surpass 1 million, but a large percentage have been absorbed into their own relative's homes, say experts." 9-05
- -12-08-05 Probe into Iraq News Coverage Widens (USA Today)
"A U.S. investigation into allegations that the American military is buying positive coverage in the Iraqi media has expanded to examine a press club founded and financed by the U.S. Army."
"The administration has expressed concerns about the allegations. Even if reporting is true, 'it's got to be done in a way that reinforces a free media, not undermines it,' national security adviser Stephen Hadley has said."
"It's not uncommon for Iraqi journalists to accept gifts or cash in exchange for favorable stories, said Emad al-Sharr, a reporter for Radio Dijla in Iraq. Cash or gifts such as watches and pens are often handed out following press conferences or on trips with Iraqi officials, he said. 'The problem is you have poor journalists who will accept anything: $100, $50, $20 to publish articles under their names,' al-Hamdani said. 'They don't think it's wrong.' Most monthly salaries in Iraq are under $300." 12-05
- 04-25-06 Whistle Blower or Thief in Diebold Case? (Election Administration Research Center)
"Prosecutors say [Stephen] Heller, a 43-year-old actor and resident of Van Nuys, took more than 500 pages of Diebold-related documents, including memos from the company's attorneys at the Jones Day law firm. The memos suggested that the company might have broken state law by providing Alameda County with voting machines that had not been certified by the state." 04-06
- Last Days on Earth (ABC News)
"The world's top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, considered the foremost living theoretical physicist, describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity." 02-06
- -09-16-06 Oceans Provide Electrical Power (Christian Science Monitor)
"Pacific swells off the Oregon coast can range from at least five feet high in the summer to 11-1/2 feet high in the winter. Over the length of the coastline, these swells could, in principle, provide 13,800 megawatts each year to a state that consumes 5,000 to 6,000 megawatts. Oregon already hosts several old coastal lumber mills that are powered by individual power substations, each of which has an outflow pipe to the sea. The existing mills would allow wave-power companies to ship 2,000 megawatts to Oregon communities without any additional infrastructure."
"Nicol Stephen, a Scottish enterprise minister who visited the project in Portugal, is proposing Scotland utilize the same Pelamis technology and begin harnessing ocean power in the waters off Orkney by 2007. The payoff could be substantial. According to a report by Carbon Trust, a British organization that works with both business and public sectors to reduce carbon emissions, wave and tidal power could in the long run supply as much as 20 percent of the United Kingdom's current electricity needs." 09-06
- -08-31-07 Movie: The 11th Hour (11thhouraction.com)
AL Gore states: "My friend Leonardo DiCaprio has just produced an amazing documentary on this subject. The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with some of the brightest minds on the planet, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Moreover, Leo himself is very eloquent and persuasive in this movie. I recommend it highly." 08-07
- -12-20-07 E.P.A. Stops Clean Air Rules of States (New York Times)
"The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said the proposed California rules were pre-empted by federal authority and made moot by the energy bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. Mr. Johnson said California had failed to make a compelling case that it needed authority to write its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks to help curb global warming."
"The decision immediately provoked a heated debate over its scientific basis and whether political pressure was applied by the automobile industry to help it escape the proposed California regulations. Officials from the states and numerous environmental groups vowed to sue to overturn the edict." 12-07
- -07-28-08 The Drive to Save Plastic Bags (Time.com)
"The ubiquitous thin white bag has moved squarely beyond eyesore into the realm of public nuisance, a symbol of waste and excess and the incremental destruction of nature. But where there's an industry at risk, there's an attorney, and the plastic bag's advocate in chief is Stephen L. Joseph, head of the quixotically titled Save the Plastic Bag campaign." 07-08
- -10-02-08 Editorial: Style Versus Substance in Debates (MSNBC News)
"Somewhere along the line, from the great 1858 Senate debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas until now, style seems to have slowly supplanted issue-specific substance as the primary focus of exchanges between political candidates." 09-08
- -10-11-08 Report to the Alaska Legislative Council: Palin's Abuse of Power (MSNBC News)
Provides Stephen Branchflower's report to the Alaska Legislative Council regarding whether Governor Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her Public Safety Commissioner. Finding Number One is that "Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides 'The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.' "
Finding Number Two is that "I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioiner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statuatory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads." 10-08
- Computer Model: Microbes Probably Survived Asteroid Bombardment (NASA)
"The study focused on a particularly cataclysmic occurrence known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, or LHB. This event occurred approximately 3.9 billion years ago and lasted 20 to 200 million years. In a letter published in the May 21 issue of Nature magazine titled 'Microbial Habitability of the Hadean Earth during the Late Heavy Bombardment,' Oleg Abramov and Stephen J. Mojzsis, astrobiologists at the University of Colorado's Department of Geological Sciences, report on the results of a computer modeling project designed to study the heating of Earth by the bombardment."
"Results from their project show that while the Late Heavy Bombardment might have generated enough heat to sterilize Earth's surface, microbial life in subsurface and underwater environments almost certainly would have survived." 05-09
- Most Distant Object Seen Without Optical Aid (ScienceDaily.com)
"A powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye."
"A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across the visible universe."
" 'No other known object or type of explosion could be seen by the naked eye at such an immense distance,' said Swift science team member Stephen Holland of Goddard." 12-09
- Researchers Disagree on Use of Body Signals in Screening (CNN News)
"The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST. Instead of focusing on whether you have hidden explosives or whether you're carrying a weapon, sensors and cameras located at security checkpoints would measure the natural signals coming from your body -- your heart rate, breathing, eye movement, body temperature and fidgeting."
"Those physiological signs, measured together, will indicate whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm, project manager Robert Burns said."
" 'We're going to look for the elevation, but we're also going to look for the absence of signals, which is just as indicative of being something that has to be resolved,' Burns said."
" 'I haven't seen any research that shows that those measures from the autonomic nervous system ... measuring blood pressure, measuring breathing, measuring heat on the face, are at all related to intent,' said Stephen Fienberg, professor of statistics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University."
"Fienberg, who participated in a government study critical of the use of polygraphs, said he worries that a lot of money is being spent on a program that in the end will show 'the emperor has no clothes.' " 12-09
- Longevity - Aubrey de Grey's View (Methuselah Foundation)
"Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chairman of The Methuselah Foundation (www.Mprize.org), awarded the first ever Methuselah Mouse Rejuvenation Prize to Dr. Stephen Spindler, who lead the first experiment to achieve rejuvenation in middle-aged mice, making them biologically younger while extending their lifespans." 2-5
- Emergency Room Waits Increase (MSNBC News)
"The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday."
"The increase is due to supply and demand, said Dr. Stephen Pitts, the lead author of the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." 12-05
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