Obama's VP list Shrinking, Webb wants off.

Jim Webb, the Virginia senator and former Republican who packs his own heat most places, has withdrawn himself from consideration as Barack Obama's Democratic vice presidential running mate." In a statement released...

Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global ...

This is a great interview with John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lawyer Stephen Susman who is representing Kivalina islanders, Native Alaskan people who have to be moved, because of global warming, to the...

Bottled Water Causes Wrinkles, Makes you look Old!

Bottled Water Causes Wrinkles and Makes you Look Old! So you want to be hydrated to look young?  Drinking bottled water all day can cause wrinkles around you lips and sourounding areas more than if you were a...

Killer stingrays hit Brit beaches

" A ray that kills its prey with a giant electric shock has been found off the coast of Britain. The marbled stingray, which generates a power surge so hard it is like being plugged into the mains, ...

How do pilots spell relief: AMXD

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Where do fighter pilots traveling faster than the speed of sound go when they really need to "go"?...

Truth Under Lock & Key: Musharaff Packs Courts With Personally Loyal Pseudo-J...

There simply is no chance of an independent, honest investigation into the assassination of Musharaff rival and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. And, there's not much chance of independent news, either, given the approved beatings of journalists.Pakistan is a nuclear...

Police find that 'holy sand' was drugs

"Holy sand": I must remember that one."Police stopped the man at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he was transiting on a flight from South America, Robert Van Aapel, a spokesman for the Dutch Royal Military Police...

Breakthrough lithium battery charges to 90% in just 5 minutes

Toshiba announces a groundbreaking alternative to hydrogen fuel cells......"December 13, 2007 Toshiba have stunned the world with their announcement of what's pretty much the holy grail in Lithium battery technology – the Super Charge ion Battery, which recharges up to 90%...

Vancouver: Young, poor, nowhere to live

This young man says it best " All I want to do is wake up in my own place, make a coffee" instead of waking up in an alley and going to a Mission at 10am and waiting 20 minutes for a coffee.  I am not homeless,...

Hundreds of Thousands at Peril with Approaching Cyclone Sidr

"If It Hits Bangladesh, Hundreds of Thousands Could Die  Cyclone Sidr, which is a hurricane of at least Category 3 strength, could track toward Bangladesh and repeat episodes of destruction that have witnessed...

Hips starting for three-bed homes

"People selling three-bedroom homes in England and Wales must now use Home Information Packs (Hips). The controversial measure was first introduced for four-bedroom homes at the beginning of August. The packs, which include energy performance certificates (EPCs) for the...

5,000 Year Old Chewing Gum Unearthed :: Oblate Spheroid

"Yes, that’s right, 5K year old chewing gum and not a chair or counter underside in sight. It turns out that Neolithic people (c. 4000-5000 BC) found that by chewing this stuff, cob of Birch tree bark, when they...

Herbicide banned to protect compost

Hopefully people will not use the intervening 12 months to stock up their garden sheds."A group of councils and "green waste" companies has succeeded in persuading an environmental regulator to block householders'...

Guess Who It Was

Ted E. Grau of the LA Weekly reports: - "On a recent morning, as I was driving my beloved to work in Century City from North Hollywood, we stopped at a gas station on the corner of Coldwater and Ventura to load up on...

Can James Baker Save Iraq?

"The former Secretary of State is admired and trusted by Gulf Arabs, but that may be as much a liability as an asset. The other day I called an Arab security official in the Gulf and joked with him about how well things are going in Iraq. He wasn't in the mood for irony. "The...

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