By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com From 1959 through the seventies Consumer advocate Ralph Nader went after the automobile industry for safety issues in American vehicles. He wrote, “The Safe...
Drudge is reporting that ABC is turning over its programming to the White House on the night of June 24 so that President Barack Obama can push his dangerous health care reform plan (For background, see posts here,...
With only 300 fluent speakers of Cornish left the UN has declared the language officially extinct. The UN believes that their have effectively been no speakers of Cornish as a first language since 1777 and so...
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I read Rand in university. At the time I was called all kinds of nasty names by all my professors (except those enlightened economic profs). The common sense of her philosophy drove some to dismiss her as "pop psychology", favoring the social...
If it was a meal it would feed a party of 10. This 'plat de resistance', The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture ($195) is indeed a big heavy tome. More than your average coffee table book, it covers over 1000 buildings that sprung up around the world since the year...
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today unveiled the groundbreaking Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world's first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord. Researchers can immediately access the free online...
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"Africa`s rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda`s Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town`s unique `fynbos` vegetation, was presented Tuesday to the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN).The Atlas,...
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"March 2008. An article by Bird Studies Canada biologist Jon McCracken examines substantial population declines for ‘aerial insectivores ‘ – birds that specialize on feeding on flying insects. The alarming...
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Let's hope the Big Bang Machine won't unlock the secrets of the universe by accidentally destroying the earth."GENEVA - A 100-tonne wheel, the last piece of an ambitious experiment that scientists hope will...
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LINK TO FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM GLOBE AND MAIL, JAN. 22/08 -
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080122.BCFOSTER22/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/
FOSTER CASE POTENTIAL...
Family offers $50,000 reward with the hope of tracking down daughter who disappeared in Las Vegas nearly two years agoCATHRYN ATKINSON Special to The Globe and MailJanuary 1, 2008The family of a Kamloops woman who...
"When one looks at Saturn, one is struck at how incredibly different it is to our Oblate Spheroid. It is truly spherical and it has a plate of material circling around it at it's equator. The plate, called...
""Following on the heels of our recent success with Noble Energy on Block I in Equatorial Guinea, we believe now is the time to explore opportunities with prospective new partners in this as yet under-explored block, OML 109," said Prince Arthur Eze, owner and chairman of...
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August 27, 2007 by Jason Hewlett
Search for missing Kamloops woman featured in book
The search for Jessie Foster is featured in a new book highlighting stories of Canadians who disappeared without a...