by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 4, 2012 | News
Even as he was claiming that climate change had not been proven, President George Bush convened a quiet conference to discuss geoengineering, the manipulation of the climate to retard global warming. Then and later, many measures—including some that seemed to be...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 10, 2012 | News
Last week, the state put into effect a final version of new regulations governing how homeless families qualify for emergency shelter. And while the new regulations are an improvement over earlier proposed rules, they still contain gaps that leave some families are...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 10, 2012 | News
The competition was fierce: would the winner be LEGO’s “Friends Butterfly Beauty Shop” featuring little plastic dolls who, the marketing copy notes, enjoy shopping, gossiping and “get[ting] primped and pretty”? Or maybe the 7-11 Slurpee...
by Our Readers | Dec 10, 2012 | News
Israel: Two Voices The Hadassah trio who penned a letter to the Advocate (Nov. 29) seeking support for Israel sound well-meaning, but they narrowly express concern for only Jewish victims in the decades-long Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Behind what the authors call...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 10, 2012 | News
At press time, the news from the world conference on climate change at Doha, Qatar was mixed: encouraging (there’s still time to keep the temperature from rising more than 2 degrees by 2020); discouraging (as yet no program has been proposed that will accomplish...
