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By not in system - AOL NewsDuring a violent thunder and lightning storm yesterday, one New Yorker brought a camera and tripod out onto her terrace to capture amazing footage of lightning striking the Empire State Building, NBC reports. ...
Beverage Company Creates Beef Salad Water
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsIt's a brand-new year and many of us have resolved to eat more salad. And keeping that vow may easier than ever, since now there's a way to drink your greens, not just chew them. New Yorker Till Krautkraemer is the founder of MeatWater, a beverage company that creates hearty -- and obviously meaty -- meal supplement drinks in highly unusual flavors like cheeseburger, barbecued chicken wings and Italian sausage. To ring in the new year and toast to a healthier lifestyle, Krautkraemer has just released four new offbeat offerings that are vegan-friendly and devoid of animal ...
Why Do GOP Candidates Continue to Deny Climate Change?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- What will happen to climate change legislation if the GOP wins control of the Senate in November? In the cover story of this week's New Republic magazine, Bill McKibben (author of the 2005 book "The End of Nature") examines common GOP climate change denial. Of course, it's largely Democrats -- including a disinterested Obama administration -- who are to blame for failing to pass a climate bill in the past two years, when they controlled both the White House and Congress. But at least Democrats acknowledge the fact -- supported by all but a few selectively vocal dissenters in ...
The Failed Climate Bill Gets Its Close-Up
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Remember the climate bill? It's true that global warming hasn't exactly been all over the headlines recently (though the global anti-climate change party did attract some buzz over the weekend). But if you haven't yet read Ryan Lizza's fascinating and depressing investigation of the Senate's failed effort to pass clean energy legislation in last week's issue of The New Yorker, you should really do so now. Even if you're not particularly concerned about climate change, Lizza's piece is invaluable at showing, in vivid detail, just how corrupt, dysfunctional and partisan our ...
In Syria, Web Provides Small Window of Media Freedom
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is not tolerated. To a slight degree, the Internet has changed that. New York Times reporter Robert Worth notes the viral spread of a video of a Syrian teacher beating her students, which ultimately led the Education Ministry to issue a statement indicating she'd been ...
Bandit Sign Haiku: The Latest Art Installation in Atlanta?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Many American commuter roads are dotted with aesthetically ugly and morally dubious small advertisements for loaning agencies, weight-loss plans and other invitations to the gullible and desperate. "Bandit signs," they're called. Now, Atlanta-based artist John Morse has posted 500-some counter-signs throughout his home city, reports the New Yorker: [His] signs came with a unique twist: they were written in the form of a haiku, the traditional Japanese poem that consists of 17 syllables when written in English. Instead of images of nature and the changing seasons, Morse's poems ...
The Reid-McConnell Senate: Is It Really Such a Mess?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe Senate is in one of those phases that make normal people wonder what on earth is going on in Washington, and possibly even what possessed the Founding Fathers who created the upper chamber. Writers are lamenting its decline, senators are laying plans for change, and some House members make no effort to hide their scorn. The leader of the abandon-hope forces is New Yorker writer George Packer. In a piece headlined "The Empty Chamber," he says the Senate has managed only two lasting achievements in 18 months and now is "slipping back into stagnant waters." Washington Post columnist David ...
Another Hiroshima Anniversary: John Hersey's Epic New Yorker Article
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk." So begins the 31,000-word article by John Hersey that appeared in the Aug. 31, 1946, issue of the New Yorker. "Hiroshima" was the first and last single story to fill a full issue of the magazine. The editors explained: "The New Yorker ...
Just Who Is Julian Assange, the Man Behind WikiLeaks?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 26) -- Seemingly out of nowhere, Julian Paul Assange, a silver-haired Australian, has emerged as the world's most important newsman. He's done so, of course, by hosting a website, WikiLeaks.org, that publishes classified military reports and other secret information. "Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantanamo Bay, and the 'Climategate' e-mails from the University of East Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin's private Yahoo ...
Rod Blagojevich Doesn't Rule Out Political Comeback
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTraipsing around New York to promote his upcoming memoir, "The Governor," former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he is "not writing myself off" for a return to public service, if the public -- like the woman who called him a "rotten politician" at the airport last week -- will ever get with the program. In a barside interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick, Blagojevich compared his situation to those of other disgraced politicians like Winston Churchill and his personal model, Richard Nixon. ...
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