Moving to shape a national policy on global warming, governors from California and four other Western states yesterday signed a landmark collective strategy to curtail greenhouse gas emissions from Santa Fe to Seattle.
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1. The overall decrease in armed conflict. With the Iraq war, the Darfur crisis, the Israel/Palestinian conflict, and other armed conflicts in the news (with good reason), it’s sometimes hard to remember that the world is actually much more peaceful now than it was just over a decade ago.
2. Steady donations for disaster relief. […]

Micheal Crook, who is being sued by the EFF for sending out false DMCA claims regrading the above image (he sent us over 10 DMCA claims), is now retracting all of his DMCA claims. This is all part of a pending settlement with Jeff Diehl (10 Zen Monkeys) and EFF, the details of which have […]

Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
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Other states that rushed to buy the touch-screen […]