http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc en-us ryanjc@sunyit.edu ryanjc@sunyit.edu http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc&mode=viewpost&id=17361 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:51:22 EDT ryanjc Australia Considers What May Be Toughest Cigarette-Packaging Laws in World Apr 11th, 2011 • Posted in: News Proponents say drab packages adorned with gruesome photos of tobacco’s effects will deter smokers and ease health crisis; critics say... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc&mode=viewpost&id=17360 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:34:53 EDT ryanjc Chinese Dissident & Government Critic Ai Weiwei is Snatched Up by Authorities Apr 11th, 2011 • Posted in: News U.S. and other nations demand his release; Iowa senator prods Chinese president, asking for whereabouts of “dungeon” where... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc&mode=viewpost&id=17359 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:20:12 EDT ryanjc Outlaw Apr 11th, 2011 • Posted in: What They're Saying “From now on, I’ll be treated like an illegal worker, an outlaw, a person wanted by the police, even though the only crime I’ve committed is to show myself as I am.”... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc&mode=viewpost&id=17358 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:05:35 EDT ryanjc Is This Any Way to Run a Government? Apr 11th, 2011 • Posted in: Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder Last week, when a threatened shutdown of the federal government was averted within minutes of its deadline, you almost could hear a national sigh of... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=ryanjc&mode=viewpost&id=17188 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:20:53 EDT ryanjc Various reports indicate that the ethic of self-sacrifice is being consciously and fatalistically embraced by workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. NPR reports that relatives of the workers remaining at the facility say they have learned that...