WW II First Marine Medal of Honor Recipient - 1st Lt. George H. Cannon, USMC (1915-1941) »
09:54 am | BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D. George Ham Cannon was born November 5, 1915, in Webster Groves, Missouri. His family moved to Detroit, and Cannon graduated from Southeastern High School in Detroit. He spent some time at the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, before enrolling at the University of Michigan. While he was at university,…
December 17 2011 / No Comment / Read More »Urban Rail and Terrorism »
01:43 pm | BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - The recent article "For Transit Agencies, Terrorists Are Moving Targets" in the magazine of the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority raises many critical issues relating to the security of urban rail systems. Security experts and transit officials alike all but guarantee that some intentional tragedy will, sooner or later, befall…
January 16 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More »UH Mānoa Researchers Find Unprecedented, Man-made Trends in Oceans Acidity »
03:19 pm | Nearly one-third of CO2 emissions due to human activities enters the world’s oceans. By reacting with seawater, CO2 increases the water’s acidity, which may significantly reduce the calcification rate of such marine organisms as corals and mollusks, resulting in the potential loss of ecosystems. The extent to which human activities have raised the surface level…
January 23 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Iconic North Island: Rotorua, Bay of Islands & Northland »
08:28 pm | Last of a four-part series on New Zealand’s North Island Text and pictures © Allan Seiden, 2012 As with Hawaii, New Zealand is a living landscape. On North Island, evidence of volcanic, seismic, and thermal…
January 12 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »Grassroot Perspective: So, So Socialist, Tangoing with TSA, and More »
05:40 am | Scanning the week’s national news, views and clues with you and yours in mind By Malia Hill “Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant” – Clint Eastwood Each week, we’ll be monitoring the web to find the most interesting, challenging, or…
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