Monthly Archives: April 2008

Congresswoman wants Carter’s passport revoked

By Michael Becker | Published: April 21, 2008
A Republican con­gress­woman has called for the Secretary of State to revoke for­mer pres­i­dent Jimmy Carter’s pass­port after he met with lead­ers of Hamas in the Middle East. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) said in a writ­ten state­ment April 16 that Carter’s actions con­tra­dicted inter­na­tional agree­ments to iso­late Hamas and defied U.S. policy. “His actions reward [...]
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Thunderstruck

By Michael Becker | Published: April 19, 2008
Just as a note, for pos­ter­ity maybe, last night was the first thun­der I heard this year. The National Weather Service says Bozeman (and most of south­west­ern, south cen­tral, and cen­tral Montana) are in the path of a mon­ster Pacific storm. We’re to expect inches upon inches of snow, feet of it in the moun­tains. [...]
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Mainstream Green

By Michael Becker | Published: April 17, 2008
Susan and I were talk­ing the other night about the num­ber of “green liv­ing” com­mer­cials that have flooded the chan­nels we watch reg­u­larly — HGTV, Discovery, and Food Network. In one hour of view­ing, we may see ads for one network’s Green Home Giveaway, Wal-Mart ads for CFL bulbs, GMC hawk­ing hybrid Yukons, and Brita [...]
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You’d think they’d know better

By Michael Becker | Published: April 8, 2008
First things first, some back­ground. I’m a writ­ing tutor. I work with grad­u­ate stu­dents at Montana State University in Bozeman. Usually, this means I read a lot of the­ses and dis­ser­ta­tions from depart­ments like Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Counseling, and Architecture. Usually this means I don’t read a lot of the­ses and dis­ser­ta­tions from [...]
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