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04.22: George Estreich

2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar

When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: Does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In The Shape of the Eye (Tarcher), George Estreich's powerful memoir, a poet and stay-at-home dad tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance — from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down's diagnostic error of "Mongolian idiocy." Against this backdrop, Laura takes her place in the Estreich family as a unique child, quirky and real, loved for everything ordinary and extraordinary about her.

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George Shultz Presses Congress to Act on Climate Change

2013-03-09 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: George P. Shultz, a former Republican cabinet secretary, seems an unlikely figure to fight for climate change, which is largely the political turf of Democrats. But climate change was exactly why Mr. Shultz, who is best remembered as Ronald Reagan`s secretary of state, came to Washington on Friday, breaking a 20-year absence from Capitol Hill to push lawmakers to support the development of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, and alternative energy. "If we can capitalize on these opportunities,...

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George Shultz pushes for carbon tax

2013-03-08 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

San Francisco Chronicle: Republican eminence grise George Shultz addressed a packed room on Capitol Hill Friday to press for a carbon tax. A Californian now at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Shultz taught economics at the University of Chicago and is one of just two people ever to hold four Cabinet posts. Bucking his party on climate change, Shultz said all forms of energy should compete "on a level playing field" by incorporating the cost of their carbon pollution. Once carbon pollution...

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