News Hamid Karzai is stripped of his outright win in the Afghan elections. The US will not make any troop decisions until they’re sure they have a legitimate partner. Uruguay is implementing a "one laptop per student" in its state primary schools. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Kerry head up bipartisan climate change legislation. …
News Heartbreaking: girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping money. Some coal plants are dumping waste into drinking water sources. How generous of them … According to the Guttmacher Institute, bans do not reduce the number of abortions. Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. Health care The Senate Finance Committee passed its bill, …
Happy October! Only three months of 2009 left! As a fall treat, here’s a picture from the White House photostream of Barack playing with his Asian-American niece, Savita: Eugene Cho blogs about it. News In more sobering news, the death toll in Indonesia passes 700. Iran talks nuclear. Senators Boxer and Kerry introduce the Clean …