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Brent Sweet, cherished and loved by many, is presumed passed away in a swimming tragedy in the Puget Sound of Seattle Washington.  After finishing his spring semester at the University of Montana he embarked on a soul search to strengthen his spiritual relationship with God, and focus his life on helping the less fortunate people he encountered.

In May he packed up his truck with his camping and climbing gear and unicycle and went for this selfless search of freedom.

A new America filled with prosperity and justice for the masses is the promise Sen. Barack Obama gave after accepting his party’s nomination for president on the final evening of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

“With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States,” Obama told delegates gathered inside Invesco Field from across the country Thursday night.

SANTA FE  – Albert Migliori is bearing down on a part of the global energy problem for which Los Alamos National Laboratory has already laid some claims.

He’s not talking about the drilling problem or how far out on the continental shelf drilling should begin, although antique legislation and backward incentives that reward depletion of non-renewable resources do warrant criticism in his view.

“Our government is a disaster,” he said, speaking his own mind as a scientist about the Catch-22s of energy policy.

The elements smiled on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s United Way employee giving campaign Wednesday.

After recent years of wind, rain and even snow, the annual kickoff for the lab’s United Way campaign, now including a volunteer recognition event, met with mild conditions and plentiful sunshine.

“We’ve always run these programs separately,” said Debbi Worsonick, community programs officer and lab lead for the United Way and LANL Volunteer program.