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Women Serving on Submarines Is Right, Says Navy Secretary
Assigning women to serve aboard submarines “is absolutely the right thing to do -- and it's going to make us a better Navy,” said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in a Luncheon speech April 30. The former Mississippi governor and U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, soon to observe his one-year anniversary in the Navy's top civilian post, made the remark on the day the service began selecting the first group of women to perform submarine duty. Although the Navy announced its intention to lift the ban on females in submarines in February, Congress had until April 30 to intervene. Noting that the Navy has…
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Exploring The Growing Popularity Of Fair Trade Products
In this episode of Update-1, NPC member Shannon Fisher explores fair trade, a manufacturing and distribution process that closely monitors imported products and ingredients from farms to store shelves, with an emphasis on global human rights. Shannon interviews Rodney North, director of Marketing and External Relations for Fairtrade America, which is the foremost domestic certifier of fair trade products. They discuss the certification process and the reasons for the growing popularity of fair trade products. Shannon later speaks to Cheryl Pinto, director of Values Led Sourcing for Ben &…
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Panel Discusses Emerging Climate Science Challenges
The nascent science of climate geoengineering must get federal funding to increase its credibility as a solution for addressing global warming, a panel of experts said at a Newsmaker press conference April 16. Geoengineering refers to the intentional manipulation of the Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming. House Science Committee staff member Chris King, journalist/author Jeff Goodell and Sam Thernstrom. head of AEI's geoengineering project, detailed challenges facing the issue. Thernstrom posed six questions. The questions looked at what geoengineering is, why it…
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Cook Has an Artist's Eye
With a pepper in her left hand, Violeta Urteaga deftly goes to work with her pairing knife. A few moments later, a tulip emerges ready to join a color-rich display aimed to whet the appetite of luncheon guests at the National Press Club.Urteaga has worked for nearly eight years at the Club preparing salads and cold-cut platters for the restaurants and banquet services that have been praised by members and guests for their aesthetic appeal. Urteaga's creative eye and skilled hands turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, according to Executive Chef Susan Delbert. "The roses she carves from…
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Levin Stresses Middle Class Benefits in Tax, Trade Policy
New House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., said he is focusing on the middle class as he leads the panel in formulating tax and trade policies. One of the major items on the committee agenda is addressing tax cuts approved during the Bush administration that are set to expire this year. As Congress begins those talks, Levin hopes to help Americans that he asserts President George W. Bush left behind. Levin told a luncheon April 19 that people in the top 1 percent of earners garnered two-thirds of the increase in national income during the last economic expansion, from…
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Club Welcomes 24 New Members
The Board of Governors approved 24 new member applications at its meeting on Monday, April 19. Active:Misha McK - Misha & Friends Media, Inc./ABC 7, Cooking Up a Better Life With Misha/Host; Jorgen Ullerup - Jyllands Posten, Washington Correspondent; Giles Whittell - The Times of London, Washington Bureau Chief Active Non-Resident:Carl Hersh, Miami, Fla. -Close-Up Productions, Inc.,Videographer, Producer; Thomas R. Greve, Hillsdale, N.J. - Summit Business Media - Credit Union Times, Publisher Active Non-Resident 65+ Reinstate:John S. Day, Bangor, Maine - Bangor Daily News, Retired…
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Wolf Trap, VIP Travel, Sysco, State Dept. Federal Credit Union Added as 5K Sponsors
The National Press Club: Beat the Deadline 5K is proud to announce more sponsors! Thanks to Wolf Trap, VIP Travel, Sysco and the State Department Federal Credit Union, who join a growing list of supporters whose generosity benefits the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library and the 5K run/walk, which will be held on July 17. To become a sponsor, please contact Jessica Brady at [email protected] .
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Corn-Waste Fuel Market Needs Gov't Help, Ethanol Maker Says
Creating a viable market for fuel derived from the leftovers of a corn harvest will require Congress to extend tax breaks for ethanol and increase the amount of the alternative fuel allowed in gasoline, according to the head of one of the industry’s leading companies. “We need to have better market access and more stable government policy,” said Jeff Broin, chief executive of POET, a South Dakota-based ethanol producer, at an April 21 Newsmaker press conference. The day before his National Press Club appearance, Broin’s company applied for a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy to…
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Widow of Slain Sri Lankan Journalist Describes His Murder
Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe, widow of slain Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunga, described his assassination as she accepted the National Press Club’s 2009 International Freedom of the Press Award given to her husband posthumously on April 21. “Lasantha and I were used to being threatened,” said Samarasinghe, who also worked for The Sunday Leader in Colombo, Sri Lanka. “Over the years, he had been followed, dragged from his car, attacked with clubs and nearly arrested for what he wrote.” Just three weeks after their wedding, Wickramatunga was ambushed just five minutes…
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Science Fair Champ, Gay-Rights Activist Win Zimmerman, Club Scholarships
A science fair prize-taker and a gay-rights activist are the winners of the two scholarships the National Press Club awards high school seniors each spring. Cathryn Walker of San Antonio, Texas, will receive the $5,000 Richard G. Zimmerman Journalism Scholarship, and Mary Susman of Omaha, Nebraska, will take the National Press Club Scholarship for Journalism Diversity, which is up to $10,000 over four years. Walker has freelanced for the San Antonio Express newspaper and is editor-in-chief of her school's yearbook. She's won first place at her school's science fair, been named all-around…
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