Tab clearing, April 15 2010 edition

• It's rather important to note that badly designed communities are required by law throughout the world.
  Also important to note: Meteorologists are not climatologists, any more than reporters are historians.
• Yup, 1m sea level rise by 2100 is the new normal.
• The lengths to which the media will go to ignore race in US politics is really astounding.
• Hydrogen-boron fusion may be easier than previously theorized.