America's Best Places to Live 2008

"Great jobs, schools, housing—these 10 small cities have all that and more Courtesy of City of Plymouth, Photo: Martha Johnston Plymouth's Medicine Lake at sunset Chances are, you love the corner of the nation your family calls home. And that’s exactly as it...

Drunk Dog Put In Hospital

"January 7, 2008 - An unusual case came up as a dog, a labrador, came in to vets in the Austrian town Bad Goisern, completely drunk and over the limit. A dog owner brought his 3-year-old labrador...

Being a little chunky ain't so bad, after all

OpinionBarry ARtiste, Now Public ContributorAs I have reported so many times on Now Public about Junk Science, Researchers who rely on public money for their livlihood have differing opinions, most researchers...

Tape of ferry bomb threat being analyzed for clues

"Tape of ferry bomb threat being analyzed for clues Jeff Rud, Times Colonist Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Delta Police have ordered a forensic analysis of the tape containing the telephoned bomb threat that shut down ferry service between Vancouver Island and Tsawwassen...

Estonia Cyberattack: No Russian Gov't Involvement

Turns out that Russia was right when it denied pwnership of Estonia. I guess the future of warfare has been postponed, and we must still settle for bombing each other off the map."An analysis by Arbor Networks' Jose Nazario has concluded that the distributed denial of service...

Heatwave on the top of the world

Yesterday, I wrote about a new study showing the effects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Today, in my inbox through Google Alerts, came an article about a study by Chinese glaciologists in 2001 and 2002...

US deficit is shrinking, balanced budget in one year?

"Find me a one-handed economist," President Harry Truman used to say, expressing his frustration at his economic advisers' tendency to say "On the one hand, Mr. President…, but on the other hand." This story from Christian Science Monitor is chock full of two-handed...

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