Strike Can't Dull Camp Broadway Spirits (The New York Sun)
Picket lines have stopped professional performances on Broadway, but for Camp Broadway, the show must go on. This week, more than 500 students from around the country are in New York participating in Camp Broadway theater programs and preparing to perform in the opening act of tomorrow's 81st annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "It's so exciting to perform in the parade. All my friends will ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Journalism with a passion (Guardian Unlimited)
Proper stories and serious journalism rewarded on a night that celebrated the future of print, online and broadcast media. Andrew Mickel , columnist of the year 2006, reports from the student media awards us.rd.yahoo.com
Ghana: NDC Opens Prayer Camp At Osu (AllAfrica.com)
Public Agenda has gathered that opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has established a prayer camp at the Osu KukuHill campaign office of ProfessorJohn Evans Atta Mills, where some prayer warriors converge to pray for the party's victory. us.rd.yahoo.com
Spitzer Offers Broad Plan to Help Upstate Economy
The governor’s $1 billion plan includes $350 million to promote business development by preparing development-ready sites and industrial parks, and related programs. nytimes.com
Charcoal in Burned Forests No Way to Store Carbon [News]
The boreal forests in the north of Canada, Russia and other countries that ring the Arctic burn every summer after lightning strikes their towering trees, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the air as they turn to ash and charcoal in the flames. Some scientists have argued, however, that this climate-changing natural disaster might not be all bad from a global warming perspective: Charcoal is a stable way to store carbon in the ground, where the carbon-rich charcoal can safely stay for hundreds if not thousands of years. Or at least that's the theory of so-called biochar. A new study published today in Science shows that such charcoal may not keep as much carbon in the soil as previously believed. [More] rss.sciam.com