I thought this article was well written and accurate. I truly believe that it is not only what you know, but also whom you know with the authority or influence in the hiring process.

The steps provided to insure a successful outcome are easy to follow and clear.

Virginia Benedict
IEEE Member
Westchester, N.Y.

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Cool article, makes Today's Engineer feed more interesting.

I would add LifeHacker to my own personal list.

Lise Johnston
IEEE Graduate Student Member
Fairbanks, Alaska

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Very useful with well chosen picks.

Massimo Placidi
IEEE Member
Foster City, Calif.

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A most interesting, well-written, well-designed article. The resources are helpful. More of the same would be good.

Lawrence Frase
IEEE Member
Branford, Conn.

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Thanks Abby! I loved this article. I added two RSS feeds from from the Web sites to my office email =)

Mike L. Giordano, PE
IEEE Member
North Branford, Conn.

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The article was an enlightening overview which managed to place the 'Cap & Trade' bill in perspective while gently shaming the 'No Nukes' crowd. ;)

Rick DuVall
IEEE Member
Oklahoma City, Okla.

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This is partisan political propaganda masquerading as objective reporting. The Heritage Foundation is highly politicized and their material hopelessly biased.

Gary Jahns
IEEE CS Member
Encinitas, Calif.

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Very thoughtful and balanced article. An energy policy that does not include nuclear and increased domestic oil production is out of touch with economic realities. Unrealistic fears have resulted in the US taking a back seat to other nations when it comes to nuclear energy.

Jim Stratigos
IEEE Member
Atlanta, Ga.     

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The information here is clearly laid out and apparently valuable. I will want to study this at some length and chase down a few things.

Too bad rational discussions like this on health insurance options can't manage to emerge as yet.

Robert Terry
IEEE Member
Columbia, Md.

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This is a great article. It covered so many aspects of the power and CO2 issues in such a relatively small space.

Bret McDougal
IEEE Member
Dallas, Texas

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I love these kinds of history reminders. The world did not end when we used terse words and sentences to communicate with telegrams.

You forgot about the teletype! For years we communicated around the world via teletype. Short abbreviations such as "GA" for Go Ahead would indicate I was done typing and now you can proceed.

Bruce Benson
IEEE Member
Champaign, Ill.

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Great article! When Shannon first started studying information theory, he looked at the English language. He found that the written language, in an information entropy sense, contains a lot of redundant information. The language is very understandable with a lot fewer letters.

But the extra letters are sort of like checksum characters in the code string, which help with a communication channel that introduces errors.

For instance, handwriting has more "errors" than typing because of illegible characters. But you can still usually read it. If the channel (like Twitter or texting) has no errors, you do not need all the letters.

David Claiborne
IEEE Member
New Orleans, La.

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It really doesn't matter what you say in any policy statement. Unless IEEE leadership is willing to confront the anti-science in Washington and elsewhere, the United States will rapidly lose technical leadership to others.

Lee Bettenhausen
IEEE Member
Malvern, Pa.

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Well done. Especially the piece recognizing the long term societal value to "reprocessing" spent fuel. Others have long since shown us that our back-end fuel cycle technology can be carried out safely.

I'm still appalled at the folks running around making outrageous claims. Some of them don't even understand what they are talking about.

The IEEE would be a big help in getting many thoughtful people to see the value of the existing 104 plants, as well as getting behind the "nuclear renaissance."

Robert Whitesel
IEEE Member
San Jose, Calif.

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The article adds no new information to the issue. See http://truechange.us for some new ideas.

Richard F. Gillette
IEEE Sr. Life Member
Tower Lakes, Ill.