Cases in Comparative Politics
January 31st, 2010 | 
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Cases in Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, India, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies the conceptual framework developed in the text across countries wi… More >>
The Stimulus Plan – Is it Working?
By Marshall Crum
Many billions of dollars have been spent as part of the multi-billion dollar stimulus plan enacted by Congress last year. There have been countless news articles about projects the money was spent on, but my observation was that a lot of those were projects that were started before the economic meltdown occurred and getting information about new projects that may offer new jobs is difficult to impossible. Aside from a few road signs that “This project funded by…” there have been few indicators that the stimulus plan is actually working. General Motors and Chrysler still declared Read the rest of this entry »
Media’s Potential Role in Fostering Middle East Peace
By David Alpern
With global frustration rising over the stalled peace talks in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Los Angeles Times reported in January on how the region could easily descend back into an intifada (uprising) just one year after last year’s devastating Gaza war. But is the conflict eternally destined to simmer, or are there ways that the fourth and fifth estates could begin to be harnessed for the purpose of changing local attitudes and expectations? Read the rest of this entry »
Effect of Web 2.0 on Journalism
By Adam Ada
‘Haiti struck by a massive earthquake’ – the horrible news that broke down on me first thing in the morning. My computer screen was swarming with live updates, pictures, videos, fund-raising campaigns LIVE from Haiti. The Haiti Earthquake had launched a wave of sympathy, information and aid through social media such as Facebook, Skype, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter (and real time that too) No press, no radio, no TV – just pure technology and social media Read the rest of this entry »
Should a president (Republican or Democrat) be allowed to do a address to school children?
Should a president (Republican or Democrat) be allowed to do a nationwide address to school children without parental consent?
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What type of Republican newspapers are on the web that are like the Huffington Post?
I always read the Huffington Post, but it’s really liberal sometimes – what type of Republican newspapers that are online and are updated as frequently as HuffPost?
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On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. In contrast to optical cameras, radar does not 'see' surfaces. Instead, it is much more aware of the edges and corners which bounce back the microwave signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather than reflect the radar beam, causing these features to appear on the radar image as dark areas. The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the outlines of the space station can be clearly identified. The central element on the station, to which all the modules are docked, has a grid structure that presents a multiplicity of reflecting surfaces to the radar beam, making it readily identifiable. This image has a resolution of about one meter (about 39 inches). In other words, objects can be depicted as discrete units--that is, shown separately--provided that they are at least one meter apart. If they are closer together than that, they tend to merge into a single block on a radar image. Since this image as taken, the station has expanded and is more than 90 percent complete, including a full complement of solar arrays. Image Credit: DLR
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