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The Supreme Court: Protecting Pornography

Protecting PornographyThe Supreme CourtFighting for FreedomsUsing Illegal CommunicationProtecting PornographyPreventing Children from Accessing Pornography on the InternetAllowing Cross…

July 2008 Current Events

Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World | Nation | Business/…

James Earl Carter, Jr.

Born: 10/1/1924Birthplace: Plains, Ga. James Earl Carter, Jr., was born in the tiny village of Plains, Ga., Oct. 1, 1924, and grew up on the family farm at nearby Archery. Both parents were fifth-…

Spotlight: The Search for Life in the Solar System

So How's the Europan Seafood? Even if life does exist on Europa, it is still too early to take up extraterrestrial ice fishing. Most likely, only very primitive forms of life would exist (microbes…

Back to School at the Movies

Lights! Camera! Learning!History lesson: Real heroes on film by Beth Rowen PattonGeorge C. Scott as Old Blood and Guts This unforgettable biopic explores the hot-headed military genius…

Pipelines to Caspian Sea Oil

Projects in the PipelineCurrent pipeline projects and their staggering costs by David Johnson The consortium of Western oil companies exploring the Caspian Sea has already spent more than…

Biographies of the Presidents

  Read bios on all of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama. George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe…

Daley, Richard Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Daley, Richard Joseph, 1902–76, U.S. political leader, b. Chicago. Admitted to the bar in 1933, he entered politics and served as a Democrat in the state assembly (1936–38) and the…