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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Taxpayers should be off the hook for any damages stemming from claims of police misconduct related to the Republican National Convention under a first-of-its-kind agreement.
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This is from an email (and their website) from the International Campaign for Tibet, to its supporters and others.
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A lot of my college students will have watched at least part of the Olympics. I think I'll give a quiz (just for interest, not for credit), asking whether they know (a)...
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It looks like something out of a Dan Dare comic book, and it might just help to save the world. A scientist at the University of Edinburgh has devised a new weapon in the fight against global warming:...
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Re financing, I wonder how big oil would feel about this. If the planet-destroying effects of their activities could be countered, it might take pressure off and also save...
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Remember this guy? His sentencing is set for tomorrow...
Links to the original stories below.
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Yeah, the guy who's a candidate for the Guinness world record for multi-tasking.
Enjoyed the crawl at the bottom of the screen. :-)
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Old cars that run on gas aren’t going away soon, and it’ll take a fair sized paradigm shift to get most people to convert their gas-powered cars into something that runs on anything else, or even...
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Depends on how you define cost, doesn't it. Factor in the costs of coping with the disasters caused by humanity's contributions to global warming, and gasoline will...
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On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat,...
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"Everyone" might know "that the entire U.S. inmate population is predominately [sp] African-American." But apparently that doesn't include the Pew...
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Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to...
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Whoops! I forgot to add the punchline: McCain has supported the disastrous war 100%, so he should be slammed, not given a boost.
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"One person was shot Wednesday at the Little Rock headquarters of the Arkansas Democratic Party, police said.
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Wonder if this will turn out to be a "copycat" follow-up to the murders in Tennessee at the Unitarian Universalist church.
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A type of genetically modified e-coli bacterium has been made to excrete "the equivalent of diesel fuel" after being fed plant matter.
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Just what we need--another source of fuel with which to destroy our planet! Why don't these weenies invest their time and energy into finding *alternatives* to...
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For quite a while now I've been thinking about how the nightmare world depicted in the 1975 film Rollerball seems eerily similar to the world in which we live. The film was written by William...
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This is from an email (and their website) from the International Campaign for Tibet, to its supporters and others. ... more
It looks like something out of a Dan Dare comic book, and it might just help to save the world. A scientist at the University of Edinburgh has devised a new weapon in the fight against global warming:... more
Old cars that run on gas aren’t going away soon, and it’ll take a fair sized paradigm shift to get most people to convert their gas-powered cars into something that runs on anything else, or even... more
On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat,... more
"Everyone" might know "that the entire U.S. inmate population is predominately [sp] African-American." But apparently that doesn't include the Pew... more69 other responses to this
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to... more
"One person was shot Wednesday at the Little Rock headquarters of the Arkansas Democratic Party, police said. ... more
A type of genetically modified e-coli bacterium has been made to excrete "the equivalent of diesel fuel" after being fed plant matter. ... more
