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Bill Would End U.S. Ban On Visas For Those With HIV
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:21:00 -0400
This week, the Senate approved a $48 billion extension of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Included in the bill was a provision that would lift a ban, in place since 1987, on visas for people with HIV.
The Evolving Role Of The Vice President
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0400
Scott Simon talks with vice presidential scholar Joel Goldstein about why and how the role of the vice president has changed.
Political Bloggers On Left, Right Descend On Austin
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0400
Political bloggers on both ends of the political spectrum are converging on Austin, Texas, for their respective annual conferences. Both liberal and conservative activists are trying to dominate this increasingly central forum of political discourse.

The Talk of the Town

Shape-shifter
Paul Goldberger Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Architects don’t usually hold elaborate press conferences to announce their new designs. But David Fisher is not a typical architect, and not only because he goes by the honorific “Dr.” Fisher, who was born in Tel Aviv fifty-nine years ago, is based in Florence, and believes that he has . . .
Isn’t It Romantic?
Rebecca Mead Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The plot of “The Romantics,” a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer, unfolds during the weekend wedding of Lila Hayes, a blond, beautiful, witty, and wealthy Yale graduate, and her former classmate Tom McDevon, a handsome, charming, social-climbing cipher. The book’s heroine--the clever, ill-at-ease, Brooklyn-dwelling Laura . . .
H-bloo On A-rod
Ben McGrath Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Shortly before his regular teatime, one day last week, the Yale literature professor Harold Bloom found an occasion to consider the plight of his beloved Yankees, as they approached the All Star break in third place, and of their star third baseman, Alex Rodriguez. “The poor fellow, you know he’s . . .

 

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A Survey Of Technology In Cities - Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.

Africa in a High-Technology Millennium - British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age.
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404 Center for Technology Studies - Resources from the Pacific Research Institute supporting ways to promote opportunity, innovation, and economic growth by limiting government intervention in the electronic frontier.
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Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C., providing news and information on technology related issues and their effect on society.
Meta Description: [ A nonprofit educational and research organization based in Washington, D.C. that studies the social effects of technology. ]

Fathom - Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching.

Government Technology - News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in state and local government.
Meta Description: [ Government Technology online magazine provides information technology case studies for the public sector, egovernment, and state IT solutions. ]

Potomac Institute - A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.

500 Red Rock Eater News Service - Mailing list and links to articles from UCLA professor Phil Agre about social and political aspects of computing and networking.

Scientists For Global Responsibility - Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption.
Meta Description: [ Scientists for Global Responsibility promotes the ethical practice and use of science and technology. SGR's main areas of concern are Arms and Arms Control, Biotechnology, Climate Change and Energy, Democratic Science, Ethical Careers, Open Science, Population Consumption and Values, Science Fund... ]

500 SCOPE Science Controversies - Establishing online, intellectual communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and also connect to the interests of the general public.
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Technology Watch Centre - The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Impact Of Technology - How the second industrial revolution ( miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating and impoverishing our community.
Meta Description: [ A description of how technology has changed from a powerful servant into a terrifying tyrant that is paralysing and impoverishing the community. ]

The Loka Institute - Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
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A Survey Of Technology In Cities - Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.