Time Capsule: Japanese-American Internment Camps

An article that hit the wire at FoxNews on December 13^th caught my attention, written by Colleen Slevin, AP writer, about a person’s personal experience as a Japanese American citizen after the attack on Pearl Harbor. You might say this is a follow-up of the article about Pearl Harbor Day …

Snippets – In The News – December 14th 2007

• US News & World Report, December 14^th 2007 – Senate Passes Energy Bill Sans Tax Hike …

The Los Angeles Times reports the Senate “overwhelmingly passed a broad energy bill that would impose the most significant increase in vehicle fuel-economy standards I three decades and the White House said President Bush would sign it.” The bill pass on a vote of 86-8 after “Democratic leaders gave in to the president’s demand that they preserve oil-industry tax breaks and drop a requirement that utilities generate more electricity from cleaner sources.”
The AP says the Senate “passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill their tanks with ethanol.” The Washington Post says the bill “represents a major setback for the automobile industry, which had fought a losing battle to blunt new fuel efficiency standards.”