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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is highlighting private-sector efforts to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to pursue education in science, technology, engineering and math.At the White House Science Fair on Monday, Obama will announce more than $240 million in pledges to boost the st stanley cups udy of those fields, known as STEM. This year s fair is focused on diversity.                                                                                                        White House science fair shines light on women in science          02:22                                                                      Obama will say the new commitments have brought total financial and material support for these programs to $1 billion.                                        The pledges the president is announcing include a $150 million philanthropic effort to encourage pro stanley cup mising early-career scientists to stay on track and a $90 million campaign to expand STEM opportunities to underrepresented youth, such as minorities and girls.More than 100 colleges and universities have committed to training 20,000 engineers, and a coalition of CEOs  botella stanley has promised to expand high-quality STEM education programs to additional 1.5 million students this year.        Obama launched  Educate to Innovate,  his effort to encourage the study of science, technology, engineering and math, in 2009.More than 35 student teams will exhibit their projects at the White House Science Fair.                Kvvz How to watch Saturday s primary contests
HOT AIR....Last night David Appell emailed to draw my attention to a post in which he calculated that the IPCC Conference on Climate Change in Bali will produce 26 million metric tons of CO2.   I ll start thinking global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it s a crisis act like it s a crisis,  he concluded.I was uninterested in this sophistry, but Glenn Reynolds  natch  decided to pick up on it, the third or fourth time he s done so just for this one conference. stanley website    They re certainly not acting like global warming is a crisis,  he agreed  151; though with a caveat that Apell s arithmetic was off by three orders of magnitude.  It s .026 million metric tons, not 26 million.But who cares   This is just an example of the current craze in global warming denialism: don t literally deny that warming is happening  the actual facts make that too hard , merely mock every possible ef stanley mugg fort to fight it.  I gourde stanley nternational agreements   Obviously ridiculous.  Federal regulation   Just an excuse for more anti-business spleen from the Birkenstock crowd.  Carbon taxes   You d like that, wouldn t you   Government spending on amelioration   Forget it.  We should spend the money on, um, clean drinking water for Chad instead.  Yeah.  Private efforts to inspire conservation   Just a bunch of hectoring, self-righteous Hollywood elites.  Al Gore   He doesn t live in a cave, so he s a hypocrite.                                        So that s that.  Sure, global warming is real, but we shouldn

Idao Gabrielle Giffords intern Daniel Hernandez defeated in bid to be student body president
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is highlighting private-sector efforts to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to pursue education in science, technology, engineering and math.At the White House Science Fair on Monday, Obama will announce more than $240 million in pledges to boost the st stanley cups udy of those fields, known as STEM. This year s fair is focused on diversity.                                                                                                        White House science fair shines light on women in science          02:22                                                                      Obama will say the new commitments have brought total financial and material support for these programs to $1 billion.                                        The pledges the president is announcing include a $150 million philanthropic effort to encourage pro stanley cup mising early-career scientists to stay on track and a $90 million campaign to expand STEM opportunities to underrepresented youth, such as minorities and girls.More than 100 colleges and universities have committed to training 20,000 engineers, and a coalition of CEOs  botella stanley has promised to expand high-quality STEM education programs to additional 1.5 million students this year.        Obama launched  Educate to Innovate,  his effort to encourage the study of science, technology, engineering and math, in 2009.More than 35 student teams will exhibit their projects at the White House Science Fair.                Kvvz How to watch Saturday s primary contests
HOT AIR....Last night David Appell emailed to draw my attention to a post in which he calculated that the IPCC Conference on Climate Change in Bali will produce 26 million metric tons of CO2.   I ll start thinking global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it s a crisis act like it s a crisis,  he concluded.I was uninterested in this sophistry, but Glenn Reynolds  natch  decided to pick up on it, the third or fourth time he s done so just for this one conference. stanley website    They re certainly not acting like global warming is a crisis,  he agreed  151; though with a caveat that Apell s arithmetic was off by three orders of magnitude.  It s .026 million metric tons, not 26 million.But who cares   This is just an example of the current craze in global warming denialism: don t literally deny that warming is happening  the actual facts make that too hard , merely mock every possible ef stanley mugg fort to fight it.  I gourde stanley nternational agreements   Obviously ridiculous.  Federal regulation   Just an excuse for more anti-business spleen from the Birkenstock crowd.  Carbon taxes   You d like that, wouldn t you   Government spending on amelioration   Forget it.  We should spend the money on, um, clean drinking water for Chad instead.  Yeah.  Private efforts to inspire conservation   Just a bunch of hectoring, self-righteous Hollywood elites.  Al Gore   He doesn t live in a cave, so he s a hypocrite.                                        So that s that.  Sure, global warming is real, but we shouldn