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Nadia Bilbassy, senior correspondent for Al-Arabiya in Washington,
- on Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes' trip to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey

» Al-Arabiya

Haeyoung Yoon, staff attorney with the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center
- on their defense of Egyptian Ehab Elmaghraby and Pakistani immigrant Javaid Iqbal
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Rachel Meeropol, attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights
- on their class action suit accusing the Bush administration ...

Stephen Petranek, editor in chief of Discover Magazine,
-on hurricanes, the ice caps, and global warming

» Discover Magazine

Paul Sonn, deputy director of the Poverty Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law,
and
Ira Stoll, managing editor of the New York Sun,

- on the legislation (passed over Mayor Bloomberg's veto) requiring grocery stores to provide health insurance ...

Researchers in Finland theorize that the unprecedented number of evergreens north of the 45th (approx. the Vermont/Canada border) parallel absorb heat especially during short days and slowly emit the warmth in comparison to ice or snow fields. They predict that prevailing summer westerly winds could drive forest fires the breadth ...

Usually we just share hate mail, it's so much more fun to look at. But this letter, photo included, is just too much. Thanks, JD.

VOA via Wapo supplies everything you ever wanted to know about pronouncing foreign leaders' names, including the invisible 's' in the name of Iran's new president.