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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(April 20) -- It blasted a cloud of volcanic ash high into the atmosphere. It effectively shut down European aviation for nearly a week, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. It even forced the United States and NATO to reroute flights heading to and from Afghanistan. But scientists hope the eruption last week of Iceland's Mount Eyjafjallajokull may have also done the world a service: namely, spotlighting both the importance of monitoring active volcanoes -- particularly ones that could affect key aviation corridors -- and the ongoing need to fund such efforts. J. Quick Scientists ...
(Nov. 18) -- The world now has its first look at the plans for George W. Bush's soon-to-be-built presidential library. Designed by renowned American architect Robert A.M. Stern, who is the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the library will reside on the Dallas campus of Southern Methodist University. At SMU on Wednesday, former first lady Laura Bush, Stern and the project's landscape architect, Matthew Urbanski, debuted the plans for what will be known as the George W. Bush Presidential Center. ...
Speaking Thursday at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush announced the creation of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, an archive, museum, and policy center to be built on the SMU campus. In a joint address broadcast on the new center's Web site, the Bushes outlined the institute's policy goals and revealed several of the scholars who have signed on. A museum and archive will contain "hundreds of millions" of images, documents, and e-mails from the Bush presidency, and icons like the bullhorn the former president used to ...
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