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InternetNews September 23, 2008 Andy Patrizio	First Palin, Now Bill O'Reilly Gets Hacked As the FBI focuses in on a Tennessee suspect in the hack on Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account, Fox News commentator gets hacked out of spite.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2008 David Lee Smith	Some Tough Questions on the Bailout With the bailout possibly nearing completion, big questions still remain.
Wired September 22, 2008	15 People the Next President Should Listen To A Smart List of 15 people with big ideas about how to fix the things that need fixing.
Wired September 22, 2008 Jeff Howe	Get Ready for Extreme Weather Robert Dalrymple, a coastal engineer at Johns Hopkins University, warns that the nation is woefully unprepared for natural disaster. Here is his three-point plan to prepare for the coming era of mayhem.
HRO Today September 2008 Andy Teng	Recycling the Political Message In this election season, the louder the calls for change, the more things stay the same.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Philip E. Ross	Engineer Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Wireless Power and Self-focusing Lasers MIT engineer Marin Soljacic found a way to recharge portable devices wirelessly
Wired Kristina Shevory	Ellen Miller: Make Washington More Like the Web The ideal of transparency and participation hasn't yet infiltrated another messy democracy -- the US government.
Reason Aug/Sep 2008 Ronald Bailey	Feds in the Fishbowl Under the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers are granted jurisdiction over the "navigable waters" of the United States. If a boat can float on it, it's theirs to regulate.
Reason Aug/Sep 2008 Kerry Howley	Course Correction Arizona calls for a ban on public school courses that are contrary to "western civilization."
Reason Aug/Sep 2008 Jacob Sullum	No Child Left Behind To justify seizing 468 children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, which is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Child Protective Services argued that the church's teachings are inherently abusive.
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