Well, this is just disturbing. The United States Food and Drug administration just announced that farmers have been using cloned cows to mate and produce beef. Which we're eating. The farmers are producing...
I remember reading DailyCandy for research when I worked in design-oriented sales in NYC. Their site has definitly grown since then, becoming a trend juggernaut. Indeed, DailyCandy has joined a bevy of blogs that...
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"A Finnish library-goer moved to avoid 100 years of ten-pennies-a-week fines when he or she quietly returned a book that was on loan for more than a century.
The item was a bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time.
The library...
"This year's 52 Miss America contestants haven't just been getting judged, they've been getting zinged in "Miss America: Reality Check," a four-part reality series leading up to Saturday's 8 p.m. EST crowning on TLC.
The series, whose final installment airs Friday, has...
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"Space, the final frontier."Just got shivers hearing Leonard Nimoy say that line during the trailer. "In a mind-boggling convergence of sci-fi pre-release buzz, new stills from Star Trek XI and X-Files 2 were...
Breaking the speed limit and running red lights is far too pervasive in American cities. If the ticket writing process is easier and more efficient, it may be possible to reduce the incidence of these common offenses. Since many of our traffic deaths are...
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"Rem Koolhaas has some photographs to show me. Not glossy shots of some earth-shattering new building he has created but small snaps of street life in the age-old courtyards of Beijing. Known as "hutongs", these are tight webs of hotchpotch homes and alleys gathered around...
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"WASHINGTON, D.C. -
By all accounts, it's fairly safe to say that Congress is not going to allow state and local taxes on Internet service, at least for the next several years.
A bill proposed by Sens. Tom Carper,...
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"Take Me Out to the Ballpark for Summer Fun
Life is good at Fenway celebrates summer fun and good old-fashioned Americana at the nation's favorite ballpark. A crowd of 20,000 will enjoy a field of dreams day...
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Bullish on Amish-BuiltWith 2-Year Wait List, St. Mary's Modular-Home Factory Doesn't Need to AdvertiseWhen Joyce Greenfield decided to build a house in the Southern
Maryland town of Chaptico, she knew she wanted a single-story rambler
with at least three bedrooms and fancy...
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"LAST year Jamie Oliver did the unthinkable. He took old-fashioned school dinners – spotted dick and custard, lumpy mash potato and tapioca – and replaced them with healthy meals kids enjoy......Images courtesy of: rushdentoday.co.uk"''Jamie Oliver's publicity crusade, ...
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"James Kim was a respected expert on cutting-edge digital devices, an owner of a trendy clothing store and a lover of the futuristic-sounding music known as electronica.
Yet, according to friends, most of Kim's life revolved around old-fashioned values: sacrifice, friendship...
"In an ideal world, we would be blessed with the "Old-Fashioned Election Night Channel," which would merely show raw-vote totals from key races around the country. The only on-air commentary would come from...
created by ecj-MAXINE | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 515 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn't going to stop him from surfing again.
So, he rallied nearly a dozen other wounded-in-action amputees he met in a military...
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