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Years of off-shoring American manufacturing has exacerbated the worst U.S. economic crisis since the Great Depression, undermining the U.S. position in the global economy, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) said today at Netroots Nation, appealing to Congress and the Obama administration to enact a series of measures to implement a national manufacturing strategy. Read more...
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The results are in. Onslow County students using smart phones in math courses not only outperformed their peers in math but also went on to take additional math courses. Read more... -
Students using “smartphones” as part of their academic classroom work
in Onslow County, N.C., significantly outpaced other students -- in
the school district and across the state -- on end-of-course exams in
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Heavily subsidized by the Chinese government in violation of global trading rules, the Chinese paper industry has tripled production over the past decade, killing jobs throughout the United States and driving up the massive U.S. trade deficit with China, according to a report released today by the Economic Policy Institute. Read more...
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Politics Planet on the Table
In tabling the climate bill, the Senate is putting off the inevitable, which will loom ever more perilously the longer we wait. Read more... -
Clients The Jellyfish Are Taking Over!
I really dislike jellyfish. I love snorkeling, want to start scuba diving and generally love the water. The problem is, jellyfish are there too.
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Clients Would You Trust This Man?
Richard Anderson is a smooth-talking cowboy from Galveston, Texas, who earned his spurs in the airline industry working with Frank Lorenzo at Continental Airlines in the 1980s. Lorenzo later fomented a bitter labor dispute and led Eastern Airlines off the cliff, one of the first victims of a reckless airline deregulation policy that has all but crippled air transportation in our nation. Read more... -
Politics History Coming Back to BiteIt was poet and philosopher George Santayana who apparently first observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a message that has more relevance with each passing day of historical ignorance, and President Obama is probably the biggest offender. Read more...
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