Amicus is a new online supplement to Harvard's Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and focuses on internet-based civil rights and civil liberties scholarship. It has an unfussy, attractive design that makes it easy to see what's new on the site. The site is divided up into "Recent Developments", "Policy Pieces", and "CR-CL Conversations". There is an online archive available to keep track...

You heard it right: Bill would let them say Ne-VAH-da http://www.rgj.com/article/20100822/NEWS/8220380/1321 FAQ of Nevada Facts http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1141&Itemid=410 Howard Hughes: Welcome Home Howard, or Whatever Became of the Daring Aviator http://digital.library.unlv.edu/hughes/ ARKan-SAW or...

Portland Number One Sustainable City-Again http://news.opb.org/article/3120-portland-number-one-sustainable-city-again/ City of Chicago Climate Action [pdf] http://www.chicagoclimateaction.org/ SustainLane's 2008 US City Rankings http://www.sustainlane.com/us-city-rankings/ United States Environmental Protection Agency: Personal Emissions...

Summer Heat Wave Before AC: History of Air-Conditioning http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2003081,00.html Gorrie's Fridge http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~ihas/gorrie/fridge.htm John Gorrie Museum State Park http://www.floridastateparks.org/johngorriemuseum/default.cfm HowStuffWorks: How Air Conditioners Work http://home.howstuffworks.com/ac.htm The Writings of Benjamin...

Mexico vote takes pulse for presidential race http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2011/07/04/mexico_vote_takes_pulse_for_presidential_race/ Mexico arrests Zetas leader 'connected to attack' against ICE agents http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/04/mexico.arrest/ United Nations Human Rights: Mexico...

On Gulf Coast, a ceramics museum that's unafraid of hurricanes http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/07/nation/la-na-gehry-biloxi-20101107 Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art http://www.georgeohr.org/ Identifying George Ohr Pottery http://oldpottery.com/george_ohr_identification.htm History of Biloxi http://www.biloxi.ms.us/history/index.asp Beauvoir http://www.beauvoir.org/ For the past...

War of 1812 Bicentennial: Why does no one remember the war that made Andrew Jackson famous? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2012/05/war_of_1812_bicentennial_why_does_no_one_remember_the_war_that_made_andrew_jackson_famous_.html New Washington museum exhibit explains War of 1812 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48042369/ns/travel-destination_travel/#.T_LhdI7N5FI Tall ships provide a...

Rio Environment Meeting Focuses on 'Energy for All' http://www.npr.org/2012/06/19/155294726/rio-environment-meeting-focuses-on-energy-for-all Rio+20 Summit Overshadowed by Global Economy http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/world/americas/rio20-summit-overshadowed-by-global-economy.html Major cities tackle climate change while Rio summit's outcome remains...

Housing Rebound Unlikely Before 2009 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4nfoY47rBfo&refer=home FEMA spends almost $3B on emergency housing http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-08-25-katrina_N.htm Advocates assail suburbs for fighting housing rules http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080826/NEWS01/808260371/1006/news01g ACORN Housing...

Fixing the Mail: Neither Snow nor Rain nor Red Ink http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2009/db2009087_477965.htm US Postal Service faces protest over cutbacks http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/aug/10/us-postal-service-cutbacks-opposed Federal Eye: Do New Postage Stamps Help or...