Clinton: Licenses Depend on the State

Pressed anew on whether she supports granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday it depends on the state.

In a CNN interview, Clinton, a New York senator, reiterated her support for governors who must contend with large populations of undocumented workers in the absence of federal immigration reform. She then was asked whether she thinks it is a "good idea" for governors to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

"It depends upon what state they're in. It depends upon what they think the risks are," Clinton said. "A governor of New York that has a lot of immigrants, …

Hippies

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Though the dictionary defines a hippie as anyone who rejects the conventional customs of society, in America the hippies were the product of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The word "hippie" is derived from "hipster," which was once a synonym for "beatnik." The beatniks (see entry under 1950s—Print Culture in volume 3) of the 1950s were the spiritual ancestors of the hippies, who bloomed as the flower children of the 1960s and 1970s. Both groups shared intellectual curiosity, disdain for conventional customs and morals, affinity for recreational drugs, and tastes in music, literature, and philosophy that put them outside the …

Publick Occurances

Publick Occurences art zine, Danny Martin, issue 10

Without a doubt, Publick Occurances is an art zine designed by a guy with an uncanny knack for lino printing. Posing as a miniature yearbook filled with black-and-white ink portraits of students, the zine recreates the 1925 graduating class of The Manual Training High School in Peoria, Illinois. The curious subject matter alone is worthy of a reader's attention, but the artistic merit of this little pseudo-memoir should not be overlooked: …

Russia wins 2008 Eurovision Song Contest

Russian singer Dima Bilan has won the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, beating performers from Ukraine and Greece.

Bilan won the title early Sunday with an R&B ballad "Believe" that featured a violinist and an ice dancer in the packed Beogradska Arena hall.

Bilan made a comeback two years after he settled for the second …

Oil nears Fla. beaches as BP tries risky cap move

The BP oil slick drifted close to the Florida Panhandle's white sand beaches for the first time as submersible robots a mile below the Gulf of Mexico made the latest risky attempt to control the seafloor gusher.

Even if it works, the current mission to cut a major pipe and cap it would only reduce the flow, not stop it. If it fails, it could make the largest oil spill in U.S. history even worse. The best hope for sealing the leak, until a permanent fix is possible in August, failed Saturday, when engineers were unable to plug it with heavy mud in a maneuver called a top kill.

Investors ran from BP's stock for a second day Wednesday, reacting to the top kill …

He Fights `Myth' of A Liberal Media

For the last 10 years, Norman Solomon has battled a big,fire-breathing dragon that is invisible to most people. So far, thatdragon - the conservative bias of the mainstream news media - seemsto be winning. In fact Solomon's toughest job is in convincingpeople that it really exists.

After all, as conservatives like to point out, studies show thatjournalists are a liberal bunch. So what gives?

"It's significant that the myth of the liberal media has beenpropagated largely via the media itself," Solomon says. "The samestudies show that though most reporters and working journalists voteDemocrat, as you go up the (media) hierarchy, it gets more and moreconservative, …

Reports: Laos begins work on Mekong dam

BANGKOK (AP) — Laos has quietly begun work on the first dam across the lower Mekong River even before a four-nation meeting to decide on the project that has roused critics ranging from a U.S. senator to the country's closest ally, Vietnam, an environmental group said Sunday.

The governments of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand are scheduled to meet Tuesday to officially decide whether to construct the $3.5 billion, 1,260 megawatt Xayaburi dam in northern Laos.

But reports say Laos is already moving ahead on the project.

"We have been informed by local people that a road is being built as preparation for work on the Xayaburi dam. We have heard about this for some …