nytimes.com: By Andrew C. Revkin

Matthew LaClair, a high school senior in Kearny, N.J., had already gained fame as something of a one-man American Civil Liberties Union for pointing out intrusions of religion into the classroom.

Now he has persuaded Houghton Mifflin, one of the powerhouses in textbook publishing, to review a popular college and advanced-placement high school text, “American Government,” over its characterizations of human-caused global warming and other controversial issues. [ read more ]