Friday, October 22, 2010

Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff President of Germany



Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪstjan ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈvaltɐ vʊlf]; born 19 June 1959) is the President of Germany and a politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was elected President on 30 June 2010 and publicly swore the oath of office on 2 July. A lawyer by profession, he served as Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010.

Born 19 June 1959 (1959-06-19) (age 51)
Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
Political party Christian Democratic Union
Spouse(s) Bettina Körner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wulff

Cooper Union College New York City


The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place (Third Avenue and 6th–9th Streets). Founded in 1859, the school established a radical new model of American higher education: its mission reflects founder Peter Cooper's fundamental belief that education of the highest quality should be "free as air and water" and therefore available to all who qualify–independent of race, religion, sex, or social status. For 150 years, the College has admitted students based on merit alone and provided each with a full-tuition scholarship.

Cooper Union may be a small college--its campus spans just a few city blocks in New York's East Village and serves only 920 undergraduates--but its list of accolades is not. This highly selective arts college is No. 7 on Newsweek's list of most desirable schools, the fifth most desirable urban college and tops the list of most desirable small schools.

This coveted institution of higher learning for students pursuing architecture, art or engineering not only offers a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio, but grants every student a full-tuition scholarship, as it has done since its founding in 1859.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union
http://cooper.edu/

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Map of Morocco


http://www.morocco-travel.com/morocco/MapOfMorocco/index.html

Sunday, October 17, 2010

The New Jersey and Manhattan under Hudson River is Urgent


Typical need for government intervention.
Chris Christie's decision to kill the costly project, started a year ago, sets off a scramble to change his mind.
Every two minutes during rush hour, a commuter train bound for Manhattan squeezes through a 100-year-old tunnel under the Hudson River. The trains are almost always packed as they head into Penn Station, the busiest hub in America.
Chris Christie terminated the ARC tunnel project, designed to double commuter rail capacity between the Big Apple and the Garden State, citing excessive costs
Paul Krugman rightly gives Chris Christie hell for dropping out of the Hudson River rail tunnel project, the largest infrastructure project in the country. He explains that this is probably the worst possible time to cancel