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Greenpeace activists draped an enormous banner next to the carved stone faces of Mount Rushmore today, calling for more-aggressive action to fight climate change.
The banner showed President...
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Thanks. Glad to hear it. Language and headlines can really be misleading.
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HOUSTON – Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant...
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Exxon-Mobil earned record profits of *fifty billion dollars* last year. How much have they invested in non-polluting, earth-friendly energy projects? Yeah, right. Their...
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PARIS (AFP) – Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the farthest supernova ever detected, a giant star that ripped apart around 11 billion years ago.
A new technique enabled the...
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I just responded to another post that I had read two articles today about Greenpeace. Same here.
The first article involved an Arizona state senator who claimed twice...
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WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's bombshell that she is resigning as Alaska governor actually has boosted her a bit among Republicans, a nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, though it also...
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Being a Democrat, I can't help liking that prospect from one POV. Being a citizen of the U.S., I can't help regretting it from another. We need at least two...
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A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several U.S. government agencies as well as sites in South Korea, in a cyber foray that South Korean intelligence...
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Note that these were denial of service attacks, not digital "breaking and entering." That doesn't mean it isn't serious! Computers overloaded by DOS...
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A Government Accountability Office investigator smuggled live bomb components into a federal building in just 27 seconds, then assembled a bomb in a restroom and ventured throughout the building...
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You think OBL is stupid? He knew this already. This exercise (and similar exercises involving airports) is not intended so much learn new stuff as to wake up inside the...
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Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday....
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The more important question is why conservatives *don't* care. It's not a liberal/conservative issue. It's a justice issue. Should it be for sale? Should it...
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Violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 140 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say.
Several hundred people were arrested after a...
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Good time to remember the well known passage from John Donne's Meditation XVII. We are all diminished by the death of Michael Jackson. And also by the deaths in...
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A look at the underground youth scenes of Karachi, Pakistan.
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Interesting that I've had a sudden influx of responses to this post. Whatever the reason, they're welcome, even when intended to be insulting.
Anyhow, I might...
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Can a college student survive on a 100% raw/vegan diet?
This short documentary film follows two extremely lively and enthusiastic pre-med students at Maharishi University, Antwan and Yahya,...
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I'm fascinated by my own reluctance to respond. Not because I'm too timid to speak up but because I've lost confidence that "true believers"...
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