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News Tipoffs - Maine Editors Newsletter for 2026-02-16 ( 2 items )  
Bowdoin College Highlights Book on Plastiglomerates and the Emerging Anthropocene (10)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Bowdoin College is highlighting a publication by Professor of Art Michael Kolster that explores how plastic waste fused with volcanic rock and sand on Hawaii's Big Island may become a permanent marker of humanity's presence in the geological record. Kolster's book, Mongrels of Our Making: The Plastiglomerates of Hawai'i, released by George F. Thompson Publishing, centers on plastiglomerates--hybrid formations created when beachside campfires melt discarded plastic into su more PR

Washington University in St. Louis Experts Say Trump Accounts Require Automatic Enrollment to Reach All Children (10)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Washington University in St. Louis George Warren Brown School experts argue that proposed Trump Accounts offering up to $1,000 in federal investment seed money for children will fall short of universal participation unless automatic enrollment is adopted. Michael Sherraden, George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor and Jin Huang, Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at the Brown School and co-director of the Center for Social Development, said opt more PR