When others dismissed Detroit as a falling knife unworthy of investment, David Egner saw something else. CNN.com – Top Stories
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Reviving the Woolly Mammoth: Will De-Extinction Become Reality?
By admin on Friday, March 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat's entire population vanished in 2000. The clone survived just seven minutes after birth, but it gave scientists hope that "de-extinction," once a pipedream, could become a reality. Science News Headlines [...]
Read More...Could Reviving Earmarks Get Congress Moving Again?
By admin on Sunday, January 6th, 2013 | Comments Off
The so-called “Bridge to Nowhere” came to symbolize all that’s wrong with earmarks in Congress. But during the past few weeks, as Speaker John Boehner struggled to rally support for his alternate tax plan, some say earmarks could have helped him convince fellow Republicans to push legislation through the House. Politics
Read More...Fleadom or death: Reviving the glorious flea circus
By admin on Sunday, December 30th, 2012 | Comments Off
The parasite-based sideshows were almost done for by the domestic vacuum cleaner – but they are bouncing back, finds Graham Lawton (full text available to subscribers) New Scientist – Online news
Read More...Video: Reviving the GOP brand without talk radio and the blogosphere
By admin on Monday, December 10th, 2012 | Comments Off
Top Talkers: The Morning Joe panel – including Mike Barnicle, Random House’s Jon Meacham, and Willie Geist – discusses the latest in the fiscal cliff negotiations and a recent Bill Kristol Weekly Standard column on why the conservative movement is in “deep disarray.” (Morning Joe) NBCNews.com: Decision 2012
Read More...Reviving Extinct Species May Not Be Science Fiction
By admin on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 | Comments Off
Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, is working on a new project to bring back extinct animals. From the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth, Brand explains why and how the project, “Revive and Restore,” plans to bring back some extinct species. Environment
Read More...Video: Reviving the Motor City
By admin on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 | 2 Comments
You’ve doubtlessly read stories about Detroit’s decline; it’s abandonment. There is even a tendency to forget that Detroit is still a major American city – where hundreds of thousands of people live. But now partly because of the success of the auto bailout, along with the recent Clint Eastwood ad, there’s a tendency to see [...]
Read More...Frum: A good start to reviving the middle class
David Frum says for a true revival, the middle class needs lower health care and college costs, and the U.S. needs to stop relying so much on the payroll tax. CNN.com – Politics
Read More...Reviving The ‘Motown Of Cleveland’
The Boddie Record Company, founded by Louise Boddie and her husband was one of the first African-American owned record companies in Cleveland, Ohio. It had been relatively obscure until record collector Dante Carfagna and the Numero Group assembled a box set of the Boddie recordings. Guest host Tony Cox speaks with Carfagna and Louise Boddie. [...]
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