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For famed science educator, comedian, and author Bill Nye (the science guy) watching a NASCAR race with his family is bittersweet. The super-fast cars zipping around the track is "exciting," Nye explains in his latest book, "Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World." But the technology is "depressing," Nye writes because

Last weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times gave nearly an entire page in their "Controversy" Section to a man who feels America is under attack by a radical, religion that is inseparable from Nazi Fascism. He feels it is a hateful religion that is out to destroy America and everything it stands for and it must be stopped at all costs. No he did not mean Islamism, amazingly enough, but Christianity. There are times when people find their lives empty and begin to look for a "new" way of life. Sometimes they find that life in a cult and become brainwashed...

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WASHINGTON - Jim Manley, a long-time top staffer in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's press office, is leaving to head the newly created communications ``war room'' of the recently elected Senate Democratic leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).      Manley, who spent the past 11 years as press secretary to Kennedy and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will now take on the title of staff director of the Senate Democratic Communications Center.      He will oversee a 15-member staff developing a message and communications strategy for Reid and the Senate Democratic caucus.      Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] was often criticized for...

Dennis Kucinich is going to be on our campus for a question/answer session at 7:30 this morning. Of course I'm going to put him on the spot. I think I've got some good brain-busters for him, but I was wondering for some of your opinions too. Kucinich has one of the most quasi-socialist domestic agendas I've ever seen, so I thought maybe something pertaining to that would be nice too. Thanks!