Auburn’s Cam Newton adds to his collection of honors winning the AP Player of the Year award in a landslide. The Tigers quarterback received 51 votes from the 60-member AP football poll panel. (Dec. 22)
Continue reading …Chrome for a Cause results tabulated: good will all around (but mostly for vaccinations)
December 22, 2010 No Comment
Did you join in Chrome for a Cause? The $1 million tab-heavy campaign has come and gone (with a 250 tab per day maximum, much to our click-frenzied dismay ), and Google’s tallied up the final scores. Of the nearly 60.6 million tabs “donated”, 16.2m went for vaccinations, 14.8m tabs for trees, 14.1m for water… 8.6m for books and 6.8m for shelter. Bit of an interesting disparity, there. Were those two not as well presented in the contribution menu? Did the return (0.4 square feet per day at most) not seem as great as the number of trees you could plant? Google eBooks ? It’s all still a good chunk of change for each of the five partnering charities. Full breakdown at the Chrome blog — and don’t deactivate that extension if you want to maximize your Reddit addiction for the next charitable go-around. Chrome for a Cause results tabulated: good will all around (but mostly for vaccinations) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Jon Stewart deserves big props for stepping up and making this a national issue since the media gave it a pass at first. NY Daily News . The deal to pass a 9/11 health bill is done, the Daily News has learned. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand met with other senators’ staff and staff from Rep. Carolyn maloney’s offce until well after midnight, cutting a new deal and trimming the package to care for 9/11 responders to $4.3 billion, sources close to the deal said. They reached final agreement at about 11:30 this morning after the New York Democrats met for an hour with the prime GOP opponents, Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. Majority Leader Harry Reid is said to have joined the talks at the end, and agreed to try for quick passage. The measure could be passed even before the START treaty is ratified. More to follow…(h/t Greg Sargent t)
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Senate negotiators on Wednesday announced they have reached a compromise to aid emergency workers who were sickened after they responded to the terrorist attack on ‘s World Trade Center. The final bill, worth about $4.3 billion, is significantly less than the $6.2-billion version that had been blocked by . Originally, the bill was pegged at $7.4 billion. The dispute over the bill had become a political embarrassment for Republicans as critics, including comedian , lambasted the GOP. Opponents were portrayed as small-hearted Scrooges seeking to go back…
Continue reading …Planet 100: 5 Skyscrapers Pushing Green to Towering New Heights (Video)
December 22, 2010 No Comment
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Fathers Martin O’Hagan, Eugene O’Hagan and David Delargy talk about their festive album and working with The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan (Dec. 22)
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A Democratic president brought the infamous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy into the U.S. military, and now President Obama has undone that particular piece of work by Bill Clinton. On Wednesday, Obama signed the bill ending DADT, saluting GLBT servicemembers from the past and present and asking those who may consider enlisting to factor this latest development into their choice, as now they, too, can take part in his overseas adventures.
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The AP takes a look back at some of the most influential newsmakers of 2010. (Dec. 22)
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