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Spring is here and scientists are watching the New York area for signs of climate change. Global warming is the thought to be the culprit for early lilac blooms and the disappearance of islands in Jamaica Bay, but the effects could soon be much more drastic than that. Also: Richard Wolffe with the Washington roundup, poverty hits a new low in NYC, and the New Yorker's George Packer on a counterinsurgency plan that's worked in Iraq.
The McCain Mutiny?
Richard Wolffe, senior White House correspondent for Newsweek
- explains the twister game that is today's immigration/guest workers debate
Welfare Rolls Drop
Mark Levitan, senior policy analyst at the Community Service Society of New York,
and
Sewell Chan, reporter for The New York Times,
- on the declining welfare rolls in New York City
» The Community Service Society of New York
» "Welfare Rolls Falling Again, Amid Worries About Poverty" by Sewell Chan in The New York Times
New York Climate Watchers
David W. Wolfe, professor of Plant Ecology at the Department of Horticulture, Cornell University
and
Doug Burns, Hydrologist at the US Geological Survey based in Troy, NY
- share signs of climate change in the New York area
» Climate and Farming, a resource page including data from David Wolfe
» The USGS's New York webpage
Tales From Tal Afar
George Packer, writer for the New Yorker and author,
The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005)
- on what American soldiers have learned about battling the insurgency in Iraq
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