Panel Questions Patriot Act Uses- May 8, 2005 Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence pushed the nation's top law enforcement and intelligence officials yesterday to share more information on the use and effectiveness of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21669-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Interactive Blogs Change Class Participation- May 8, 2005 Wikis create freewheeling, collaborative communities for students to edit one another's work and bounce ideas around.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... GOP Spars Over Drug Import Bill- May 8, 2005 Party divisions over whether to allow Americans to import lower-priced medications from such countries as Canada exploded in an unusually public and personal exchange between two New England lawmakers.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Bush's Rhetoric Splits House Chamber Between Throaty Roars and Stony Silence- May 8, 2005 On issue after issue -- Social Security, gay marriage, energy, taxes and lawsuit restrictions -- President Bush's rhetoric split the House chamber between the throaty roars of Republican conservatives and the stony silence and occasionally outright heckling of the Democrats.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59093-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Making Books- May 8, 2005 If Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, ever needs reminding why his work matters, he can just think back to an incident two years ago at the Owl and Turtle Bookshop in Camden, Maine: Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo was signing books, and Gissler, having just taken the job, was curious about the impact of the prize on an author's life. So he posed the question to the novelist, who had published four midlist books before the prize-winning Empire Falls.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55004-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Security Could Curb Birding at Bay Tunnel- May 8, 2005 Security concerns at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel have prompted officials to propose a ban on bird-watching from most of the 20-mile span between the Eastern Shore and Virginia Beach, and distraught birders are waging a phone and fax campaign against it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15599-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Debt Help From G-7 Urged by Protesters- May 8, 2005 Protesters kicked off a weekend of anti-globalization demonstrations with a lone drum and just over 50 people outside the Treasury building yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57478-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Washington Area Bestsellers- May 8, 2005http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15598-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... FDA Is Urged to Ban Some Farm Antibiotics- May 8, 2005 A coalition of public health and environmental advocates petitioned the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to ban the use of seven classes of antibiotics commonly used on farms to speed the growth of livestock.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35335-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Democrats Claim Votes to Halt Plan- May 8, 2005 Senate Democrats have increased pressure on Bush to begin outlining a plan that might offer enough compromises or incentives to win over at least a handful of Democrats.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55567-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... |