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- What I would Change About the World: overpopulation
- Current Gig: biotechnology internship
- Current Project: credits, more and more credits.
- Influences/Heroes: Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin.
- Political Bent: Lefty
- Favorite Bands: Saves the Day, Set Your Goals, Modest Mouse, Brand New, Bob Marley, All Time Low, Blink, The Mars Volta, Dr. Dre
- Favorite Directors: Tarantino, Apatow, Scorsese
- Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Blow, The 40 Year Old Vigin
- Favorite TV Shows: Weeds, The Wire, 30 Rock, Heroes, Entourage, The Office, No Reservations, Scrubs, The Sopranos, Family Guy, Good Eats, The Daily Show, Colbert Report
- Favorite Track: Play Crack The Sky - Brand New
- Celebrity Crush: Tina Fey
- AIM: kitesfite
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- mikefisher voted up Report sees illegal hiring practices at Justice Dept. 4 years ago
Start of NYT article excerpt. WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite... more
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- mikefisher voted up EPA proposes allowing coal plants to be built near national parks 4 years ago
Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks.... more
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- mikefisher voted up Name That Drug 4 years ago
Vox pops that reveal the variety of different attitudes to different drugs as held by different people...
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- mikefisher voted up Solar power takes off in Kenya 4 years ago
The expense and unreliability of electricity supply is fuelling East African interest in solar energy. In rural Kenya, where there is no electricity, solar systems have proven popular with... more
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- mikefisher voted up U.S. school district to begin microchipping students 4 years ago
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. The Middletown... more
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- mikefisher commented on Ohio teacher burns cross on child's arm 4 years ago
it's like he was trying to make national news.
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- mikefisher voted up Abu Ghraib? Doesn't ring a bell 4 years ago
If ever there was a case that cried out for enhanced interrogation techniques, it was yesterday's Senate appearance by the Pentagon's former top lawyer. William "Jim" Haynes... more
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- mikefisher voted up Charging by the byte to curb internet traffic 4 years ago
For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active... more
