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- Marco Rubio's lavish rise to the top
- St. Petersburg Times
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 15, 2010 at 12:32AM EDT
- Quote: Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny.
- Tags: Politics, marco rubio, Charlie Crist, Florida, Florida Senate race

- Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group
- Los Angeles Times
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 15, 2010 at 12:30AM EDT
- Quote: The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.

- Ushahidi - Africa's Gift to Silicon Valley - How to Track a Crisis
- The New York Times
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 14, 2010 at 11:56AM EDT
- Quote: A lot of things could go wrong with this model. People could lie, get the address wrong, exaggerate their situation. But as data collects, crisis maps can reveal underlying patterns of reality: How many miles inland did the hurricane kill? Are the rapes broadly dispersed or concentrated near military barracks?
- Tags: Technology, Haiti, Chile, Ushahidi

- Vast F.C.C. Plan Would Bring Net to More in U.S.
- The New York Times
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 13, 2010 at 9:26AM EST
- Quote: The blueprint reflects the government's view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries. It also signals a shift at the F.C.C., which under the administration of President George W. Bush gained more attention for policing indecency on the television airwaves than for promoting Internet access.
- Tags: Media & Journalism, Government, Gov2.0, FCC, broadband

- Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West
- Wired.com
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 8, 2010 at 3:50PM EST
- Quote: Precise GPS measurements from before and after the earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded by seismographs, show that the country’s capital, Santiago, moved 11 inches west. Even Buenos Aires, nearly 800 miles from the epicenter, shifted an inch. The image above uses red arrows to represent the relative direction and magnitude of the ground movement in the vicinity of the quake.
- Tags: Science, earthquake, Chile, Chile earthquake

- US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti
- AP
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 8, 2010 at 11:26AM EST
- Quote: U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international aid is ending even as the city is still mired in misery and vulnerable to unrest.
- Tags: World, U.S., Haiti, Haiti earthquake, earthquake, foreign aid, Military

- Adios, Amigos
- Foreign Policy
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 4, 2010 at 5:44PM EST
- Chris said: As Brazil, Mexico and other rising Latin American countries become powers in their own right, they care less what the US thinks or wants.
- Tags: World, Latin America, hillary clinton, diplomacy, Mexico, brazil

- Focus on rising Chinese political star Bo
- AP
- Chris Amico of NewsHour Online linked this on March 3, 2010 at 10:20AM EST
- Quote: Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai is riding a wave of popularity for the anti-gang crusade in the boisterous Yangtze River city that saw dozens of law enforcement officials arrested for collusion. State media have gushed about Bo's resolve in editorials.
- Tags: World, china, dalian, Chongqing, CCP