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Experts Tell the Truth about Pot
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:20 PM EST (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)
In the classic 1936 cult film Reefer Madness, well-adjusted high school students who try marijuana suddenly sink into a life of addiction, promiscuity, aggression, academic failure, homicide and mental illness.
9 things you don't know about the iPad 3
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:58 PM EST ()
Summary: In the spirit of guessing about products we have no real information about, here are 9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3. Sometimes we get it right. Sometimes we don’t.
Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:48 PM EST (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 perc …
Nook Tablet 8GB: Barnes & Noble Launches $199 Tablet, Slashes Nook Color Price Tag
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:53 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
At the same time that major bookseller Barnes & Noble announced a drop in its quarterly net income, the company announced a new version of its Nook Tablet eReader device. According to a company press release issued on February 21, the new 8GB Nook Tablet will be sold at $1 …
Kindle Fire Owners Say They Want The iPad 3: SURVEY
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:38 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
In a rather, ahem, incendiary finding, a recent survey by TechBargains found that more than half of Kindle Fire owners will buy an iPad 3 when the hotly anticipated third-generation Apple tablet is released. In fact, Kindle Fire owners were even more likely than non-tablet own …
Proview Seeks IPad Ban In Shanghai, China
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:32 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S.
How the FCC Can Take the Money Out of Politics
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:02 AM EST (Truthdig)
The Federal Communications Commission should forbid television broadcasters from charging for campaign ads, and we, the public, should peacefully demonstrate outside the FCC offices at 445 12th Street SW, in Washington, D.C., until it does so.
Pat Buchanan To CBS' Charlie Rose: 'Western Civilization Is On...Pretty Much Its Last Legs (VIDEO)
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:02 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
CBS' Charlie Rose asked Buchanan what he would like people to understand about his book. "What I want you to understand, Charlie, what I want the folks to read that book and understand, is that Western civilization is in its Indian Summer.
Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In University Of Texas Case
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:45 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON -- Affirmative action is heading back to the Supreme Court, and this time its prospects for survival are poorer than ever. The Court announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to hear a challenge to the University of Texas' affirmative action program, which is used in …
American Dreams: 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:23 AM EST ()
American Dreams: 1912, ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man’ In the second installment of the American Dreams series, Nathaniel Rich reads a seminal African-American novel about crossing the color line, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Jo …
Swine Flu Virus: Ferret Study Suggests New Virus May Have Pandemic Potential
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:31 AM EST (Huffington Post Canada)
TORONTO - A new study says flu viruses of swine origin that caused a dozen infections in the United States in the second half of last year appear to have pandemic potential. And the work, by scientists at the U.S.
New Life, From an Arctic Flower That Died 32,000 Years Ago
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:21 PM EST (The New York Times)
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports.
Can you pass on your downloads after you die?
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:16 PM EST ()
The digital afterlife is an uncertain business, it seems.
How Republicans Could Still Succeed At Privatizing Medicare
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:06 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
Republicans may be backing off their famously toxic plan by Paul Ryan to privatize Medicare, but they’ve doubled down on the broader concept and are taking strategic steps to get there over time.
Pain Without Gain
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:01 PM EST (The New York Times)
Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing.
Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC 'Lean Forward' Ad Rated 'Mostly False' By Politifact (VIDEO)
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:19 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Politifact looked into O'Donnell after a reader asked the organization to assess the validity of one of the prime time host's "Lean Forward" ads for MSNBC. The "Lean Forward" ads, which have a distinct style, are directed by award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee.
Clint Eastwood: Reagan wasn't a 'great president'
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:01 PM EST (Raw Story)
When Clint Eastwood thinks of the great presidents in his lifetime, Ronald Reagan doesn’t make the list. Over the weekend, celebrity gossip website TMZ asked Eastwood, a Republican, to name his favorite president. “Lincoln was great,” the Oscar-winner said.
The Pirate Bay could be blocked in UK | Technology
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:40 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has come a step closer to being blocked in the UK after the high court ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale. Major music groups want British internet service providers (ISPs), such as BT and BSkyB, to prevent their …
Charlie Chaplin's Birth Once Vexed FBI, MI5 Agents
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:58 AM EST ()
Files released yesterday by the British National Archives show how MI5 investigators examined Chaplin’s background after he left the United States amidst reports that he was affiliated with members of the Communist Party. At the request of J.
OWS Calls for May Day Strike
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:59 AM EST (Truthdig)
Occupy Wall Street has boldly called for a general strike of the 99 percent on May Day—May 1. “*No Work *No School *No Housework *No Shopping,” read the text approved by the OWS General Assembly.
Americans Elect: The Radical Center We Don't Need
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:14 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Tom Friedman of the New York Times is at it again, claiming that what America needs to fix our economic and political mess is a radically centrist third party. Radical in this case means conservative when it comes to belt-tightening.
Why Germany is phasing out its solar-power subsidies.
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:07 AM EST (Slate)
Germany once prided itself on being the “photovoltaic world champion”, doling out generous subsidies—totaling more than $130 billion, according to research from Germany’s Ruhr University—to citizens to invest in solar energy.
Total rethink needed on dieting: scientists
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:54 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.
Remember Vatican II
Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:11 PM EST (Firedoglake)
I have a simple message for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Remember Vatican II. I do.
EatingWell: 7 of the Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But Aren't
Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:52 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
But what about the power-packed foods filled with good-for-you vitamins, minerals and disease-fighting phytochemicals you aren’t eating? Rather than rattling off a laundry list of every fiber-rich, antioxidant-packed, vitamin-saturated food I can imagine, I’m going …
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Experts Tell the Truth about PotIn the classic 1936 cult film Reefer Madness, well-adjusted high school students who try marijuana suddenly sink into a life of addiction, promiscuity, aggression, academic failure, homicide and mental illness.
- 9 things you don't know about the iPad 3
Summary: In the spirit of guessing about products we have no real information about, here are 9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3. Sometimes we get it right. Sometimes we don’t.
- Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 perc …
- Nook Tablet 8GB: Barnes & Noble Launches $199 Tablet, Slashes Nook Color Price Tag
At the same time that major bookseller Barnes & Noble announced a drop in its quarterly net income, the company announced a new version of its Nook Tablet eReader device. According to a company press release issued on February 21, the new 8GB Nook Tablet will be sold at $1 …
- Kindle Fire Owners Say They Want The iPad 3: SURVEY
In a rather, ahem, incendiary finding, a recent survey by TechBargains found that more than half of Kindle Fire owners will buy an iPad 3 when the hotly anticipated third-generation Apple tablet is released. In fact, Kindle Fire owners were even more likely than non-tablet own …
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9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3
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Kindle Fire Owners Say They Want The iPad 3: SURVEY
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Experts Tell the Truth about Pot
9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3
Experts Tell the Truth about Pot
Experts Tell the Truth about Pot
9 things you don’t know about the iPad 3