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Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

Robert Bryce: Renewable Energy Can't Run the Cloud

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Data centers now consume about 1.3% of all global electricity.


Winston and Crandall: The Law Firm Business Model Is Dying

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Rules that were adopted to protect the legal profession from outside competition are actually stifling it.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Harvard's Theda Skocpol on the true political significance of ObamaCare.


George Melloan: Seeing Is Not Believing at Today's Fed

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Glasnost has destroyed the central bank's mystique. Traders and investors can now peek inside the kitchen and notice the guesswork.


Robert Rubin: A Budget Grand Bargain Will Follow the Election

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Early 2013 will offer the best political environment for critical fiscal reform.


Shining light on hearings

MIAMI — A California judge's decision to open a county's child-welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or harms the young victims appearing in family court.

When a child is abused or neglected, there's a family-court hearing to ...

Shining light on hearings

MIAMI — A California judge's decision to open a county's child-welfare hearings earlier this year has energized a debate among advocates in other states about whether greater transparency helps or harms the young victims appearing in family court.

When a child is abused or neglected, there's a family-court hearing to ...

Syria's Srebrenica

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
The U.N. again plays accomplice to a massacre.


What's Right With Kansas

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Governor Brownback calls the bluff of GOP tax-cut opponents.


American Scene: Witness claims naked attacker was chewing man's face

MIAMI — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off ...

American Scene: Witness claims naked attacker was chewing man's face

MIAMI — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off ...

Tropical Storm Beryl soaks Memorial Day events

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation - and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl.

While it left little damage after sweeping ashore with 70 mph winds just after midnight at ...

Romney: 'The world is not a safe place'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
Mitt Romney addresses veterans on Memorial Day, saying "the world is not safe" and offers his military plan for America.
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McCain to heckler: 'Jerk!'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
A San Diego crowd cheers after Sen. McCain called a man a jerk for heckling his Memorial Day speech.
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Obama: Vietnam vets' treatment a 'national shame'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 16:48
President Obama makes Memorial Day remarks at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the first president to do so since 1993.
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