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Google LatLong: See which campuses received an A+

We are happy to announce the winners for the Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition! Congratulations to the talented students who took on such a challenging project. You can see their amazing models in Google Earth by turning on the 3D Buildings layer and navigating over to each campus, or you can see their individual collections in our 3D Warehouse. The winning schools are:

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including one of my daughter’s target schools:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

what a great way to save money on those expensive college tours!

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Amazon.com: Torture and Democracy: Books: Darius Rejali

Darius was a friend of mine at Swarthmore. I learned more from him than from any other single person there, faculty included. This is an extremely important book.

Some excitement in our neighborhood yesterday — it’s been so dry that our neighbor’s lawn caught on fire. We suspect a sparkler dropped by neighborhood kids.

Kelsey saw the fire and told Cheryl and me. We came running across the street — our neighbor is 89 years old and frail. I pounded on the door, and Kelsey alertly found Esther in her back yard. I put out the fire with a hose.

Wow — like living out west with wildfires!

I went for a walk with Parker at Dicken Woods today.

It’s pretty exciting when you make a change to your home that’s visible from space, or, at least from an aerial photograph. We just removed the brick pavers and deck that took up the entirety of our back yard and replaced them with sod. I will be watching Google Earth to see when they update this image!

at the Ann Arbor District Library:

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from the fabulous Ann Arbor District Library

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Helen Reddy to Receive Veteran Feminists of America’s First Lifetime Achievement Award at May 1 Event in Los Angeles

New CD Anthology, Helen Reddy: The Woman I Am - The Definitive Collection, in Stores May 2

Reddy’s New Memoir, The Woman I Am, in Stores May 4

WHO: Helen Reddy, world renowned recording artist

WHAT: Veteran Feminists of America luncheon and awards ceremony, where Reddy will be honored with the organization’s first Lifetime Achievement Award

WHERE: Feminist Majority Auditorium in Los Angeles

433 South Beverly Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

WHEN: Monday, May 1

1:30pm-5:00pm

My parents had a Helen Reddy tape cassette that we listened to all the time back in the 70s. I loved it.

Roar.

I took this at the Detroit Zoo and it is one of the top-rated Google images for “black rhino.”