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Issue date: 5/5/08 Section: News
'Newsweek' editor to speak at Bush Library
Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas will deliver the 2008 spring address for the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs' Lenore and Francis Humphrys International Speakers Program in the George Bush Presidential Library & Museum Orientation Theatre at 5:30 p.m. Monday. The title of his remarks is "Presidential Leadership and the 2008 Campaign." Thomas has served as the magazine's editor-at -arge since September 2006. Prior to his current appointment, Thomas served as the Washington bureau chief and managing editor for Newsweek. He served as a writer and editor for Time magazine and received a National Magazine Award in 1998. Thomas is also a regular weekly panelist on the talk show "Inside Washington" and serves as a commentator for T.V. shows like "Larry King Live." Thomas has authored six books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Thomas will be hosted by The Scowcroft Institute, which was established to promote policy-oriented research in international affairs by supporting faculty and student research, hosting international speakers and major scholarly conferences and providing grants to outside researchers to use the holdings of the Bush Library. Past speakers include Brian Mulroney, James A. Baker, III, and Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.). Seating at this lecture will be limited, Scowcroft Institute officials note. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis at The Eagle, KBTX, WTAW, the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the MSC Box Office. Further information is available at siia@bushschool.tamu.edu.Hall blog makes "cents" of green economics
People will spend about $2 billion on flowers for mom this May, and retailers will grab a bigger piece of the pie if they price plants at, say $9.99 rather than $10. Those are some of the messages offered through "Making Cents" a blog by Dr. Charlie Hall, an agricultural economist and holder of the Ellison Chair in International Floriculture in Texas A&M University's department of horticultural sciences. "Profit margins are getting tighter and tighter in the Green Industry due to market conditions becoming increasingly competitive. Therefore, a few cents per pot/plant can make a world of difference," Hall said.Texas A&M News and Information
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