The University of Colorado professor who likened 9/11 victims to a Nazi leader was fired in retaliation for his controversial remarks, a Denver jury ruled on April 2. Jurors in the wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by Ward L. Churchill agreed with the embattled professor's contention that he was the victim of a "howling mob," not the perpetrator of academic misconduct. It's up to Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves to decide whether to return Churchill, 61, to his $96,392-per-year job as a professor of ethnic studies at the Boulder campus. The judge also will determine whether the university must pay his legal fees.
Churchill, a tenured professor known for his blunt manner, was fired in 2007--two years after the firestorm that erupted over an essay he penned soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The paper, "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," attributed the attacks to U.S. foreign policy and called victims in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
The contents of the essay didn't become widely known until 2005, when a campus newspaper at Hamilton College in upstate New York, where Churchill had been scheduled to speak, dug up the essay and printed a story about it. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-churchill-verdict3-2009apr03,0,179491.story


Houghton Mifflin Accused of Cheating Artists
ANCHORAGE (CN) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing made "billions of dollars" unjustly by paying photographers and artists for the right to print limited numbers of their works, then reprinting the images in the "millions," Alaska Stock claims in Federal Court. The agency claims "Houghton's business model [is] built upon a foundation of pervasive, willful copyright infringement."

No Fair, Out of State Drivers Tell Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CN) - Rhode Island discriminates by charging out-of-state drivers with EZ Pass transponders more to cross the Claiborne Pell Bridge than it charges Rhode Island residents, a class action claims in Federal Court. The bridge aka the Newport Bridge links Newport and Jamestown.

Eponyms are words created from real, fictional or mythical people, such as dahlia for Anders Dahl, sousaphone for John Philip Sousa, simony for Simon Magus, Alzheimers for Alios Alzheimer. There are thousands of epoymns in English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/eponyms.htm

World Wildlife Fund’s pictures of Earth Hour on March 28, 2009
http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/earth_hour/

One World - Nations Online pictures every country on the planet.
For each country there is a profile with facts and figures, about the country's geography, its flag, statistics, maps, images, and links to sources that will provide you with more information about a nation, listed on this site are: official government web sites, newspapers, tourism and visa information, travel advice and a good deal more.
Example: Thuringia
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/Germany/thueringen.htm

Ten years after the introduction of the euro, the onset of deep recession in the Eurozone has triggered concern that the single currency might impose intolerable strains upon some members. With some countries hit hard by the impact of the credit crunch, there are mounting concerns about a possible debt default by one or more member states, which in turn might threaten the euro and even the existence of the Eurozone.
http://www.oef.com/free/pdfs/eurozone_under_threat(mar09).pdf

YouTube Blog: YouTube EDU, a hub for videos from over 100 of our leading university and college partners. Think campus tours, news about cutting-edge research, and lectures by professors and world-renowned thought leaders. There are also 200 full (and free) courses, in a range of subjects, from universities, including IIT/IISc, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale. There are over 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU and growing.

National Library Week April 12-18, 2009
National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate. National Library Week 2009 will be celebrated with the theme, "Worlds connect @ your library."
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/hqops/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.cfm

EPA's Earth Day Site
"On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe. Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a world-wide campaign to protect our global environment. Learn about the history of Earth Day. EPA's Earth Day Web site offers you many tips and fun ways to protect the environment and your health every day."

“Monitor” cake (Mrs. Orr’s chocolate cake)—its story and the recipe—and a second recipe based on the first: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0325/p18s01-lifo.html