Category: ‘General’
Monday, August 18th, 2008
live science: Monsters are everywhere these days, and belief in them is as strong as ever. What's harder to believe is why so many people buy into hazy evidence, shady schemes and downright false reports that perpetuate myths that often have just one ultimate truth: They put money in the ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
news week: There's an irony in the fact that when Belgium laid out the month's "Programme of Work" at the U.N. Security Council, this last week was absent an agenda. Since Russia's invasion of Georgia, the diplomatic community has been rather preoccupied. The United States and Western Europe have flailed ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
red, green and blue: In a recent survey of over 3,000 Chinese citizens, environmental issues emerged as a big problem in the eyes of the majority of respondents.** The 2008 survey, conducted as part of the Pew Research Center’s Pew Global Attitudes Project, found that about three quarters of those ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
usa today: RALEIGH, North Carolina — College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
The movement called the Amethyst ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
tennessean.com: SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be granted the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.
According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new five-year ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON - The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with June a year ago, according to data released Thursday.
Nationwide, 252,363 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice in June, ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
brianCuban.com: Do illegal aliens have rights to basic services? Will local regulation herd them all into massive “sanctuary cities?
I am aware we all have basic human and constitutional rights regardless of our immigration status. To what extent however can local government alter those rights based on that status?
While not the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Silica is present in Martian soil that the Spirit Rover unintentionally turned up. Image: NASA/JPL.
The Spirit Rover, one of two planetary rovers operated by NASA on the planet Mars, has made an important, though unintentional discovery on the red planet. A wheel which has been inoperable on ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
laTimes: Donald Rumsfeld is today a discredited and widely reviled figure. Robert Gates, Rumsfeld's successor as Defense secretary, is generally admired for manifesting qualities that Rumsfeld lacked -- a willingness to listen not least among them. Yet on one crucial point, the two see eye to eye: Both believe that ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
guardian.co.uk: Albert Einstein - A little known letter written by him...
Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".
Einstein ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
yahoo news: Los Angeles - The arrest this week of 96 suspects on drug-related charges, including 75 students, after a six-month sting operation at San Diego State University is shining a fresh spotlight on the issue of growing substance abuse at America's colleges and universities.
The incident also highlights the growing ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
yahoo news: Serious mental illness costs Americans at least $193 billion a year in lost earnings alone, a new report shows.
The study broadly defines mood and anxiety disorders that greatly limit a person's ability to function for at least 30 days a year, including instances of any condition linked to ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
newsweek.com: It's considered a "fact" of sibling relations: the baby of the family always gets away with murder. If the oldest brother had a curfew of 11 p.m. on weekends, his baby sister just has to call if she's staying out all night. But can it be proven that ...
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