The World This Week: Olympic Con Games

by | Apr 3, 2008 | News

Back among the bright and shining lies of the Bill Clinton administration looms the moment when a huge contingent of American corporate and political leaders traveled to Beijing to stand in Tiananmen Square. They did not go there to pay homage to the hundreds of...

Imperium Watch: The Demise of Species

by | Apr 3, 2008 | News

The earth is rapidly losing species of plants and animals, and climate change promises to accelerate that loss. But the Bush administration in seven years has only added 59 species to the endangered list, and many of those were only added under court orders.It goes...

What do you think?

by | Apr 3, 2008 | News

Nuke Release InevitableThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy held a joint meeting in Bethesda, Md. February 19-21, planning "the technical issues and research topics for potential extended operation of the nation's nuclear power...

Garbage Time

by | Apr 3, 2008 | News

In an initiative unprecedented in Massachusetts, Northampton's Mayor Clare Higgins supports expanding the city's regional landfill into a recharge area for the Maloney well, which is in a Zone II water supply protection area over the Barnes Aquifer. The...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Apr 3, 2008 | Music

MonadeMonstre Cosmic(Too Pure)Ever wonder what happened to Stereolab? In the '90s, the band pioneered a synthy retro-futuristic pop, with the winning French lilt of singer Laetitia Sadier, who sounds a bit like a cross between Serge Gainsbourg and Aimee Mann. It...