TV coverage in Beijing not shaping events CBS says
CBS News chief Dan Rather and President David Burke said television did not alter the Beijing protests. Rather argued the message was political change not camera manipulation, noting Western programs influence Chinese views of America as an idea and urging the public to focus on the broader shifts in communism and society.
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Beijing
CBS News
Dan Rather
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David Burke
Network News
China
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United States
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Rather
Tom Bettag
CBS Evening News
Bettag
America
Asia
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Soviet Union
Central America
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ravens shielded to stop power line outages in Idaho Oregon
Ravens roost on Pacific Power towers caused droppings to short circuit high voltage lines. Crews install fiberglass dung deflectors between ravens and insulators to protect a 500000 volt line, with 55 towers in Oregon and Idaho already shielded and 24 more underway this week.
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Eastwest
Wyoming
Intermountain
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Pacific Power
Mike Mulrooney
Bend, Ore
Idaho
Monte Garrett
Heat Pumps: A Dual Fuel Solution For Northern Illinois
An analysis argues gas furnaces are wasteful in northern Illinois winters and that electric heat pumps excel when temperatures rise above freezing. A dual fuel system combining furnace for extreme cold and heat pump for milder days offers efficient heating.
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Northern
Illinois
Pajamas for the president from Cedar Springs students
Cedar Springs Middle School seventh graders mailed 100 letters to President Bush and sent a pair of red flannel long underwear and a red nightgown for the first lady. Teacher Janet Wilson assigned the project asking students to choose three national concerns, explain why they should be addressed, and propose solutions. Previously the class mailed similar letters and flannels to Gorbachev and his wife last year.
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Cedar Springs Middle School
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Janet Wilson
Gorbachev
U of C Receives $2 Million for Science Education Reform
Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $2 million to the University of Chicago as part of a $61 million package for 51 grants to boost collegiate science education. The five year program targets retaining students in science careers and promotes recruitment and training of disadvantaged minorities and others not yet drawn to science, restructuring curricula to attract previously uninterested students.
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