he Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
LiveScience.com
Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
Mon Aug 24, 10:30 am ET
The body’s appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation.
Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only […]
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Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday.
The unusually large scale […]
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Brad Miller Death Threat:
Capitol Police Looking Into Phone Call Made To Congressman Over Health Care Reform
The above headline in the Huffington Post goes far to sum up the intellectualism of the ruffians who invade Town Meetings about health care and who do not want the government to take control of Medicare and Medicaid. It’s to […]
And the Pentagon hopes to deploy it next year
By Dan Smith Posted 08.03.2009 at 2:42 pm
Popular Science
The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive […]
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NEW YORK POST, AUGUST 3, 2009
Regional News
Washed Up! Ipod Guard Whistled
Aug. 4, 2009
Now he’s in deep. The city yesterday suspended the lifeguard photographed by The Post Sunday as he relaxed in his chair listening to his iPod through a headset on Rockaway Beach. The nine-year veteran, whose name was withheld, faces charges…
Regional News
Lifeguard Caught Wearing […]
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Op-Ed Columnist
Rewarding Bad Actors
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 2, 2009
The New York Times
Americans are angry at Wall Street, and rightly so. First the financial industry plunged us into economic crisis, then it was bailed out at taxpayer expense. And now, with the economy still deeply depressed, the industry is paying itself gigantic bonuses. If you aren’t […]
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