Ralph Nader, consumer activist, politician and presidential candidate, has written his first work of fiction. The book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, consists of 736 pages and goes on sale todayOnly the Super-Rich Can Save Us tells the story of rich celebrities in their...
While many grocery stores and supermarkets of all stripes are cleaning their act on the plastic bag side, dry cleaners (in the US at least) still consume a prodigious amount of the stuff to shield everything from skirts to shirts.Some practical minds decided to change that...
Pretty neat to see someone from such a famous family strike out on her own. It can't be easy living underneath such a giant shadow."The granddaughter of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau is making her own...
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October 15, 2008 is Blog Action Day.This year's topic is Poverty and how to tackle it if not solve it. There are myriad ways to address the issue.I could have picked a homegrown (US) project.Instead I chose Trusts for African Schools (TAS) a UK based charitable...
The granddaddy of North American fashion shows, Mercedes -Benz Fashion Week, kicks off September 5th in Manhattan. While industry staples like Phillip Lim, Badgley Mischka, Calvin Klein, Diane Von...
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"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...
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Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has...
It is extreemly rare for a former MI5 chief (The UK's equivalent of the CIA) to speak in public on camera about anything. Baroness Manningham-Buller's speech yesterday in the House of Lords was therefor quite...
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Christian 11 and 12 year old children were being forced to pray to Allah! detention for those who refused! As one parent put it: "Making them pray to Allah, who isn't who they worship, is wrong and what got me is...
Interesting news on the alternative energy front ... " New solar dish from MIT concentrates sunlight intensely enough to melt steel ... The results are staggering -- the completed mirror focuses enough solar energy at its focal point to melt solid steel. The energy of...
"Looking to break away from the optical mouse pack? For people into creative technologies, SOAP, based on hardware found in a mouse, works in mid-air -- consisting of an optical sensor device moving freely inside...
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"Here’s a novel punishment: A Florida judge has sentenced two pranksters to one minute of YouTube shame.With the popularity of Google’s video sharing site has come an unfortunate rise in pranks from people chasing their 15 minutes of web fame. Kids plot, film, and proudly...
A San Francisco company has announced an innovative and impractically-priced personal jet-pack, so I thought I'd bust this onto the site before Edmund Jenks got to it!Yes, a jet-pack."A company called Thunderbolt...
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"Free electric car charging points are being installed across central London.
Westminster council is putting in 10 roadside posts following a trial of two in Covent Garden. About another 50 will be installed in 13...
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