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Don't be fooled, gambling doesn't get worse online
8-5-2006
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by Andrew Kantor (USA Today)
Once again, our esteemed legislators are acting as if something done online is somehow different than if it's done offline. [election year] A bill to ban libraries from offering access to MySpace is a perfect example. There are a lot of places in
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Space Travel and Exploration
Russia Seeks Volunteers for Simulated Mars Mission
8-5-2006
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Space.com
Russia's space agency is seeking volunteers for a 520-day 'flight' to Mars and back. To qualify in the first round of selection, you would need to be aged between 25 and 50 years. Being a doctor, engineer, biologist or computation instrum
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Space Travel and Exploration
Moon to Muscle in on Perseid Meteor Shower
8-5-2006
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Space.com
For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded as "meteor month" with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth. That display is, of course, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower beloved by everyone fro
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Health and Physical Fitness
Mad cow watch goes blind
8-5-206
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USA Today OpEd
The U.S. Department of Agriculture â€" invoking an obscure 1913 law intended to thwart con artists from peddling bogus hog cholera serum to pig farmers â€" is blocking companies from selling [mad cow] testing kits to Creekstone.
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Communications
Government Underground Radio
8-5-2006
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WirelessIQ
Vital Alert Technologies Inc. signed license agreements with the Los Alamos National Laboratory for Underground Radio, a technology that will provide Through-The-Earth Communication, (two-way voice and text) for first responders, rescue and se
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Internet
Record labels sue LimeWire
08-05-2006
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By Nichola Groom - LOS ANGELES (Reuters)
Some of the world's biggest record labels sued the makers of the file-sharing program LimeWire on Friday, saying the software allows users to download music without paying for it.
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Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Hundreds expected to come to Masturbate-a-thon
8-5-2006
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Reuters
[Huummm. Congress just recessed.] Hundreds are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe’s first "Masturbate-a-thon." Participants, who have to be over 18 [18 what?], can bring any aids they need and can take part in 4 differen
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Space Travel and Exploration
After 10 Years, Few Believe Life on Mars
8-5-2006
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AP
10 years ago NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars. Ten years later, the results have not been verified. Skeptics have found non-biological explanations for every piece of evidence that was presented. The NASA scientists who advanced it now st
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Israel
Beirut: Before and after Israeli bombing
08-05-2006
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electronicintifada.net
Someone's keeping track. Here are sat. photos of areas before and after bombings in Iraq and Lebanon.
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NeoCons
U.S. threatens suit if Maine probes Verizon ties to NSA
08-05-2006
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By KEVIN WACK, Portland Press Herald Writer
The Bush administration is threatening to sue if Maine regulators decide to investigate whether Verizon Communications illegally turned over customer information to the National Security Agency.
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More Than 1,000 Take Part In Metro East Disaster Drill
08-05-2006
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By Steve Jankowski www.ksdk.com TV5 News
(KSDK) - It's only a drill. But for the next five days, metro east residents may notice an increase in activity involving military and emergency agencies. (They will make certain you notice)
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Simulated nuclear explosion planned in Honolulu - (Red Alert - r u a'fear'd e'nuff?)
08-05-2006
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Honolulu Advertiser Military Writer - William Cole
as Hawai'i reportedly was targeted on the Fourth of July in a North Korean test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile that U.S. officials said blew up 42 seconds or sooner after launch.
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Drug War
Drug Use, Drug Availability, Drug Legality in your town.
08-05-2006
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webehigh.com
Worldwide Marijuana Travel Guide With Marijuana Prices, Spots & Legalization Status - Curently covering 305 cities. New cities and cities updates every day!
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Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
FASCIST CHRIST by TODD RUNDGREN - music video
08-05-2006
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TODD RUNDGREN
Here comes the sex police, they’re at your bedroom door - Movin’ in next door, searchin’ from floor to floor - You know what they’re lookin’ for - Someone’s always keepin’ score every time you dip the oar
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Vindication: Police drop wiretap charges
08-05-2006
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Nashua Telegraph
Police won’t prosecute a man for using his home security system to record detectives on his front porch, Nashua Police Chief Timothy Hefferan announced Friday.
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Police State
Alaska Senate passes bill to detain witnesses
08-05-2006
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Fairbansk Daily News Miner
Under the proposed law, police would be allowed to subpoena, photograph, fingerprint and hold witnesses or people who have information that would aid investigations.
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Anthropology
Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings
8-4-2006
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AP
Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers.
Over the past week, researchers at
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Anthropology
World's oldest tablet?
8-5-2006
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AP
An almost 7,000-year old stone tablet found in Bulgaria bears carvings that might turn out to be one of the world's oldest inscriptions, a prominent Bulgarian archaeologist said.
"These signs are unique and apparently bear a meaning,"
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Conspiracies
Book: Sept. 11 panel considered Pentagon probe
8-4-2006
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AP
The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel’s chairmen say in a new book.
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Israel
Israeli tanks blown up with missiles
8-4-2006
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AP
Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks.
Experts say this is further evidence that Israel is facing
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ANOTHER EGYPTIAN MYSTERY
08-04-2006
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MSNBC
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project says radar readings show what could be another 3,500-year-old chamber from the days of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, not far from the recently explored KV63 chamber.
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Media: Print
Media With No Guts, No Grace
08-04-2006
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by Molly Ivins - TruthDig
We are under full attack now, and it is time to fight. I am not infuriated by the performance of the press so far, but I am disgusted.
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Israel
The uneven calculus of Mideast victory
08-04-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
Hizbullah may 'win' this war, now in its fourth week, by merely surviving.
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Economy - Economics USA
Consuming Passions
08-04-2006
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www.dailyreckoning.com
Yesterday brought news that Toyota sells more automobiles in America than Ford does. But nothing to worry about, say economists, soothingly.
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WAR: About that War
Voting Iraq War Up or Down - Joe Lieberman's election will be a sign.
08-04-2006
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by Helen Thomas - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The political fate of Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman will be on the line in Tuesday's Democratic primary in Connecticut, an election that has become a referendum on the war in Iraq.
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WAR: About that War
The War of the Generals
08-04-2006
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LewRockwell.com
Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
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Israel
National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to Israel
08-04-2006
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Salon
Bush administration is trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
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WAR: About that War
Rumsfeld denies painting ‘a rosy picture’
08-04-2006
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NBC News and news services
Rumsfeld stated,... Blah Blah Blah,... (who cares what he says? It's all Bullshit anyway)
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WAR: About that War
Generals Give Grim Report on Iraqi Strife
08-04-2006
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By Julian E. Barnes, Times Staff Writer
"Sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular," said Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the senior U.S. commander in the Middle East. "If not stopped, it is possible that Iraq would move toward civil war.
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Technology: Software
Microsoft: OK, now I want you to hit me as hard as you can ...
08-04-2006
Microsoft execs handed a test version of Vista to attendees of the Black Hat - "They are going to people who don't like them, say nasty things and have the incentive to find the things that are wrong."
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