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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You listen to Republicans, and you’d think that the only thing we need to do to address our current fuel and energy crisis is drill, drill, drill and drill some more – even if the Department of Energy, the Bush administration’s Department of Energy, that is, has done…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] I expected more out of John McCain. A lot more. I remember thinking a few years ago, circa 2000, that the Arizona senator might make a pretty good president. I bought into the whole Straight Talk deal that he was selling, supported his efforts to clean up campaigns through McCain-Feingold,…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What are the major environmental issues that our next president, be it Obama or McCain, will have to confront? – Melinda Barnes, via e-mail Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Radical centrist.” The words don’t seem to go together, but then you listen to Mark Warner describe the concept that he’s trying to sell, and it makes a lot of sense. “We’re going to have a window in January of ’09, whether it’s McCain or Obama, and if we can’t…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How is it that hydrogen can replace oil to run our cars? There seems to be a lot of controversy over whether hydrogen can really be generated and stored in such a way to be practical? – Stephane Kuziora, Thunder Bay, Ontario The jury…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Interesting editorial in today’s News Virginian about the supposed dangers of CFL bulbs. It would have been more interesting had the paper done even cursory research into the case of the Maine woman whose horror story illustrated the supposed dangers associated with the small amount of mercury contained…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg talk about his team’s preparations for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Show Length: 9:55. You’re Seth Greenberg, and you want to be happy about how far your team has come this year. I mean, you were picked to…
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Column by Jim Bishop The clean-cut group, The Brothers Four, hit the music scene in a big way in 1960, and then quietly disappeared with the advent of folk-rock and the British invasion. Members Bob Flick, John Paine, Mike Kirkland and Dick Foley formed in 1957 as fraternity members at the University of Washington in…
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham For a brief moment or two after the 2006 midterm elections, it had seemed that the Republican Party was perhaps going off its ideological moorings. The talk was reaching the level of near-clamor regarding how the GOP was going to have to consider retreating from the right-wing conservative…
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