Deborah Pryce has voted with a majority of her Republican colleagues 90.4% of the time during the current Congress. This percentage does not include votes in which Pryce did not vote...
>A story this morning on The Today Show describes how American students are getting tutoring online from a company called TutorVista. According to the report, it is much cheaper than face-to-face tutoring a student might receive in their own city and students are parents appear to be very happy with the results. The tutoring takes place over the web and the tutors are located in India.
>If you are looking for political news from Ohio, just keep in mind that most information reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Dayton Daily News have a far right wing perspective. They report negatively on Democrats and liberals and positively on the GOP. (The Columbus Dispatch is also a cheerleader for the Republicans but it is not a far right as the other two papers.)
>Next time you and your family are planning a beach vacation, you might want to remember this story----
Science Blogs:
It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. "The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. Registration is free and only takes a minute or two and is extremely worthwhile. Included at the site are maps of disposal sites (downloadable as pdfs), stories, descriptions of items dumped including nerve and musturd gas, and rather depressing pictures some are below the fold (all from Daily Press).
(Warning Flipper fans: If you visit the Science Blogs page, you'll see some awful pictures of dead dolphins that have been burned by exposure to toxins. The original information was published at The Daily Press.)
The following maps are from the Science Blogs and The Daily Press:
