When Alex Cocoles encountered a tough question on his Advanced Placement chemistry exam a month ago, the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory senior did not fret — he knew exactly how the chemical reaction in a battery works thanks to the marshmallow fight in Dr. Ramsey Musallam’s class.
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Ronald Reagan may have been an actor before he became a politician, but he was never a sex symbol like Rock Hudson or Montgomery Clift. There’s a reason for that: The dude is asexual. That’s why the allegations in the upcoming tell-all, “Elizabeth Taylor: There Is Nothing Like A Dame,” are especially, um, unsettling.
According to the book’s author, a teenage Taylor went to then 36-year-old Reagan’s house for dinner and seduced him. Ew.
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Who’s in town Pamela Constable, foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, gives a talk titled “Pakistan: A Divided Nation.” [Noon, World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter St., S.F.]LecturesJoshua Goldstein: The author of books on war and international relations gives a talk titled “Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide.” [Noon, Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., S.F.]
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Figuring out what’s inconsistent with NPR’s editorial standards can be awful difficult. The network terminated the contract for Fox News contributor Juan Williams because of a comment about Muslims, but apparently has yet to take a similar action against Nina Totenberg. From Reason’s Michael Moynihan:
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A recent episode of PBS’ award-winning science program NOVA on the issue of Global Warming was deemed insufficiently doomsday, so the left has hit on a curious explanation for why this happened — funding from one the conservative villains du jour, the Koch brothers:
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Hard to believe that it’s been a quarter of a century since “Buenas dias Cuba” started off Radio Marti’s first broadcast to Cuba. The all-news station and its sister TV and Internet outlets have been broadcasting news to a country Freedom House ranks as one of the 10 countries with the most restrictive media environments – and one of the 10 worst for bloggers.
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