The second week at Montpelier concluded Friday with this question… What do you SEE when you say AMERICA? As the American public celebrates independence through fireworks, BBQ and pool parties, the 80 teachers who studied constitutional citizenship at Madison’s Montpelier know we must keep the future as well as
[/content/images/wordpress/2010/05/51A1HJ0GVYL.jpg]Watching William Gibson’s “ No Maps for These Territories [http://www.amazon.com/William-Gibson-Maps-These-Territories/dp/B0000D0YT5],” I found one brief moment in the film that resonated with a million other moments in time. The famous science fiction author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The nightly news in Austin has been dominated by updates from Fort Hood. Perhaps it’s moments like this that justify that last story on the national news. The one about a long lost teddy bear or crazy cute animals at the local zoo. Tonight, however, that last story was
How is the first picture of Earth from space the most powerful political picture ever published? Marking the 40th anniversary of the famous picture, a British newspaper, The Independent, remarked that the three astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission “went to the moon, but ended up discovering the Earth.” The
The scholars of the 2009 National Academy The “dance party” finally pulled the plug at nearly 1:00 the next morning. Others had already said their goodbyes in order to pack the last of their things or to sleep before an early morning departure. The National Academy had reach its