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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
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from Popular Science
from The Spokesman-Review
Northeast faces slow recovery
Obama tours devastated areas, promises ‘we are here for you’
New Yorkers adjust to conditions
City covered in soaked possessions; many powerless
Storm washes away much of ‘Jersey Shore’ town
Wells and Co. has been revitalizing cityscape for decades
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
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Clinton lays out plan to aid Syrian opposition fighters
Washington – The Obama administration and allies have begun a new effort to reshape the Syrian opposition to give a bigger role to frontline fighters, a smaller one to Syrian exiles, and to exclude entirely the Islamist radicals who have flocked to the war against the government of President Bashar Assad, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters in Croatia, Clinton said the U.S. and allies hope to take a major step in forming a future leadership of Syria at an Arab League-sponsored meeting in Qatar next week that will include a range of Syrian representatives, as well as U.S., European and Arab officials.
The new opposition leadership must include “a representation of those who are on the front lines, fighting and dying today to obtain their freedom,” she said in an appearance with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic.
“This cannot be an opposition represented by people who have many good attributes but have, in many instances, not been inside Syria for 20, 30 or 40 years,” she said in a reference to the Paris-based Syrian National Council.
Chinese think tank suggests ending one-child policy
Beijing – A government think tank is urging Chinese leaders to start phasing out China’s one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.
Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others warn that the gradual approach, if implemented, would still be insufficient to help correct the problems that China’s strict birth limits have created.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the foundation recommends a two-child policy in some provinces from this year and a nationwide two-child policy by 2015. It proposes all birth limits be dropped by 2020, Xinhua reported.
But it remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take up the recommendations. China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission had no immediate comment on the report Wednesday.
Shell ends drilling in Arctic near Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Shell Oil’s flotilla of Arctic Ocean vessels is heading for warmer waters.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced that it concluded exploratory drilling on Wednesday, its mandatory cutoff date before winter. It completed preliminary drilling at one well at the Burger-A Prospect 70 miles offshore in the Chukchi Sea and one at the Sivulliq Prospect 18 miles offshore in the Beaufort Sea.
“We’re looking forward to revisiting these wells as soon as we can next year,” Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said by phone from Prudhoe Bay.
The end of drilling by Shell’s two drill ships and about 20 support vessels wraps up a tumultuous season that saw the company penetrate the ocean floor for the first time in more than two decades, finally making progress on an Arctic offshore investment of more than $4.5 billion, including $2.1 billion for Chukchi leases in 2008.
Randy Mann
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from The Wenatchee World
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| SURVEY CREW: Local resident W.R. Prowell (fifth from left) was part of a survey group that would plan the route for the Great Northern Railroad Co. across the Cascades. While working, the group was housed at the Bates’ Hotel (which later became the Cougar Inn) and the Blankenship log home in the Lake Wenatchee area. This photo was taken in Wenatchee several years later during festivities held Aug. 30, 1924, to celebrate the Wenatchee Southern Railway building permit. |
Massive wildfires: Rare events or harbingers?
Cora Lucinda (Hicks) Nordby Obituary
Endeavour display already encouraging the next generation of space explorers
Business Past: Alloy plant takes shape
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