"Why is" 3rd April 2008

Mark Caserta: Why is abortion a non-issue in this election?
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
I don't buy the "anti-litmus test" philosophy when choosing a candidate. If we choose not to require certain criteria, then we resolve to vote solely on ...
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Why is help for air travelers grounded in the US Senate?
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
But why is it taking so long to bring relief to air travelers in the form of a passenger bill of rights? As the Washington Post explains in this editorial, ...
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Why Is Torture Lawyer John Yoo Still Teaching at Berkeley?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Why is he still allowed to teach at Berkeley? Why hasn't or doesn't the Berkeley faculty senate or law-school senate demand his dismissal? ...
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Why is Al Gore dis-inviting press and analysts at RSA?
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Al Gore is giving the closing keynote at the RSA Conference, and members of the press and analysts are explicitly not allowed to attend. ...
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Why is Zuma not meeting Zille?
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe has agreed to meet the Democratic Alliance to discuss the future of the Scorpions, DA leader Helen Zille said on ...
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So, why is Clinton losing it?
Times and Transcript - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
If she has so much of it, why is she losing? Why has that skinny, wordy, speechifying lightweight and political greenhorn, whom she dismissed in Texas as ...
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Liquidity Is No Defense When Banks Turn Cannibal
Bloomberg - USA
Why is UBS AG planning to tap its shareholders for a cash infusion of 15 billion Swiss francs ($14.8 billion), in addition to the 13 billion francs it ...
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'There is no military solution': Go tell that to NATO
The Island (subscription) - Columbo,Sri Lanka
If there is no military solution why is NATO fighting in Afganistan even after Al Queda extended an invitation to talk peace? ...
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Why is Britain failing the elderly?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Why is Britain failing the elderly? Why do you think other EU countries are able to provide for pensioners, while Britain lags behind? ...
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Africa: Why is the Continent Too Rich Yet Too Poor?
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Two weeks ago there began the Sports Relief activities in Britain in which many sports people, celebrities and others are involved in raising money for the ...
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Why is a Government-Funded Reproductive Health Database Blocking ...
By Rachel
Today through medical librarian channels, I got word that entering “abortion” as a search term in the POPLINE database now returns zero results because of a move by the database personnel to block that search. For background, POPLINE is ...
Women's Health News - http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com

OOXML: Why Is It Bad, and What Can We Do?
By reuven
Why is OOXML a bad standard? What does it mean for open-source developers? And what, if anything, can menbers of the open-source community do, now that OOXML has been adopted as a standard by the ISO? read more.
OStatic blogs - http://ostatic.com/blog

Why is it hurting the physics community for the leading experts in ...
By Eue Jin Jeong(Eue Jin Jeong)
I can see so many graduate students and the post docs want to write thesis and research papers regarding dipole gravity in application to the various cosmological problems. But they are afraid it may not pass the referee when they ...
Dipole Gravity, Gravitomagnetism - http://dipoleantigravity.blogspot.com/

Don Norman's jnd.org / Why is 37signals so arrogant?
Why is 37signals so arrogant? Andrew Park of Wired Magazine wrote a nice piece about the design philosophy of Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of ...