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member name: Shava Nerad
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . .
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April 20, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Liviu Librescu was only a kid when his family was deported from his native Romania to a labor camp in Transnistria, so he was only 78 years old -- young for a holocaust survivor -- when he died at Virginia . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Liberal sources have been circulating a google video of Bush at the G8 apparently drinking a beer. Bush, a recovering alcoholic who is a teetotaler, says he has not taken a drink since he was 40. . . .
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July 30, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
As we read that Amnesty International and the Catholic Church are feuding over the issue of supporting abortions for women subject to rape and incest, a friend of mine in Oregon sent out this quote and . . .
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May 24, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
The Progressive notes that on May 9th, George Bush declared absolute emergency powers for the president:
With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for . . .
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August 11, 2006 05:42 PM EDT --
I just heard on NPR that, after the Israelis sanctioned a 100 vehicle civilian evacuation convoy from southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone aircraft fired rockets on the civilian convoy, killing a half dozen . . .
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August 23, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
As Reuters reports, there's a phenomenal "radio silence" surrounding the kidnapping of a Fox correspondent and a free lance cameraman in Gaza.
The kidnappers, claiming to be with . . .
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February 22, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
This week, natural and specialty foods retailer Whole Foods acquired smaller chain Wild Oats for a questionably wise offer of over half a billion dollars. Whole Foods, which started as a hipster/hippie . . .
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October 20, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter books, is gay.
Entertainment Weekly reports :
Responding to . . .
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February 18, 2006 01:47 AM EST --
Media Matters criticized Fox News for covering for Cheney, who admitted on camera he had been drinking at lunch before he and his partner went quail hunting:
Without question, one of the most significant . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
An article in Salon this week examines the gay community in MMOs, including the issue of gay marriage in virtual gaming space in Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, WOW and other games.
My name is . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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May 01, 2006 05:52 PM EDT --
Wait no longer, you folks fond of hairy men! Der Spiegel brings us the top ten winners of the German Beard World Championship.
Truly not to be missed.
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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April 30, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
This week, the Turkish election crisis went to streets as at least 700,000 Turks supported their secular principles of Turkish rule for about a century.
In a turn around from western assumptions, the . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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