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Space Travel and Exploration
Moon's Magnetic Umbrella Seen as Safe Haven for Explorers
11-16-2006
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Space.com
Yet amidst this hostile [lunar] landscape a number of safer havens exist where the lunar surface escapes much of this sleet of radiation. One such benign feature, named Reiner Gamma, lies on the Moon’s Earth facing side and is marked by a 37-mile-lon
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Anthropology
Neanderthal: 99.5 Percent Human
11-15-2006
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LiveScience.com
Humans and their close Neanderthal relatives began diverging from a common ancestor about 700,000 years ago, and the 2 groups split permanently some 300,000 years later, according to the most detailed analyses of Neanderthal DNA to date.
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Chocolate prevents strokes, heart attack
11-15-2006
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Reuters
"What these chocolate offenders taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack,"
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Voting - Election Integrity
House member wants e-voting paper trail
11-15-2006
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McClatchy News
Citing the disputed vote in a Florida congressional district, a Democratic lawmaker urged Congress to require a paper trail for electronic voting. Rep. Rush Holt said the inaccuracy of electronic touch-screen voting machines "poses a direct thre
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Transportation: Air Travel
US Airways offers to buy Delta for $8 bln
11-15-2006
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Washington Post
US Airways Group Inc. proposed an $8 billion [hostile] takeover of bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc. after an attempt at merger talks failed earlier this fall.
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Legislative Mischief
Trent Lott wins back leadership slot
11-15-2006
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Washington Post
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job 4 years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the chamber's No. 2 GOP post. Mitch McConnell
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WAR: About that War
Abizaid warns against Iraq timetable
11-15-2006
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AP
The top U.S. commander in the Middle East warned Congress against setting a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, rejecting the arguments of resurgent Democrats who are pressing
President Bush to start pulling out.
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Environment
Democrats to Bush: greenhouse gas limits needed
11-15-2006
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Reuters
Three Democratic senators who are to lead powerful environmental committees in Congress urged President George W. Bush to combat global warming by putting mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Amateur Videos Are Putting Official Abuse in New Light
11-15-2006
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Washington Post
"I cried. I was scared. I was ashamed," Hemy recalling what had happened on that night. She had just been arrested for drug possession. She had no drugs, but police found some on a friend of her fiance. Police arrested the whole group anywa
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Corruption
Government admits improper farm payments
11-15-2006
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AP
[elections over] The Agriculture Department acknowledged making improper payments to farmers worth more than $2.8 billion last year. Improper payments in fiscal 2006 was about 11 percent of farm program payments
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Corruption
U.S. funds for democracy in Cuba spent on cashmere
11-15-2006
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Reuters
U.S. funds intended to promote democracy in Cuba have been used to buy crab meat, cashmere sweaters, computer games and chocolates, according to a U.S. congressional audit published on Wednesday.
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Corruption
Bush reappoints overseas broadcast chief
11-15-2006
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AP
Tomlinson signed invoices worth about $245,000 for a friend without the knowledge of other board members or staff, used the board's office resources to support his private horse racing operation and overbilled the organization for his time.
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Bush Administration
Rove to stay until end of Bush presidency
11-15-2006
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Insight Mag.
Despite pressure on the president to reshuffle his staff for 2007, Mr. Bush wants Mr. Rove by his side. "He knows too much," a source said. "The last thing the president wants is another published memoir and book tour of life inside th
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Legislative Mischief
Murtha calls Dem ethics, lobbying bill 'total crap'
11-15-2006
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Roll Call (Raw Story)
Congressman John Murtha reportedly called a Democratic bill on lobbying and ethics reform "total crap" two days before the House Majority Leader election, during a vote-bidding presentation before the Blue Dog Coalition.
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Criminal Justice System
Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others
11-15-2006
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ABC News blog
As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison, a source close to the investigation told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation with federal prosecu
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Torture
Ex-prisoner tells of torture at Gitmo
11-15-2006
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International News
Shackled to a ceiling for "4 or 5 days. They take you down in the mornings when a doctor comes to see whether you can endure more,” he said. “They let you sit when the interrogator comes. They take you down about 3 times a day so you do not die.
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Media: Television
Al Jazeera's U.S. Face
11-15-2006
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Washington Post
The moment Dave Marash told friends and colleagues about his new job, the questions began flying.
Who? listeners asked skeptically. And why?
Nearly nine months later, he's still hearing those questions -- and it turns out answering the firs
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Media: Television
Al-Jazeera broadcasts in English won't be heard in US
11-15-2006
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Variety
Al-Jazeera has all but conceded defeat in its effort to gain US distribution in time for its worldwide launch. Execs at the nascent English-language offshoot of the Arab broadcaster said Comcast Communications pulled the plug on
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Bush Administration
Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes
11-15-2006
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by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The response of the new Congressional leadership has been to proclaim a new era of civility and seek accommodation with the very people who need to be held accountable for war crimes and subversion of the Constitution.
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WAR: About that War
Bush's Failed Liberation Theology
11-15-2006
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by Parastou Hassouri (Tom Paine)
The UNHCR recently estimated that nearly 3 million Iraqis have been displaced since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Although Egypt is not even the primary destination for most of those fleeing Iraq, they now constitute the largest number of new registrant
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Domestic Policy
What Empire Does to a Culture
11-15-2006
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by Roderick T. Long (Mises Inst.)
While I sympathize with many of the concerns embodied in the cosmopolitan argument for empire, I believe the argument is mistaken.
We should be cautious in concluding that imperial centralization leads to a flourishing and cosmopolitan culture.
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WAR: About that War
Bush Initiates Iraq Policy Review Separate From Baker Group's
11-15-2006
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Washington Post
President Bush formally launched a sweeping internal review of Iraq policy that parallels the effort by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to salvage U.S. policy in Iraq, develop an exit strategy and protect long-term U.S. interests in the region.
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Dahr Jamail lecture at Univ of Southern Maine
11-15-2006
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USM
Dahr Jamail was living in Alaska when he decided to quit his job, as he says, to buy a laptop computer, camera, and plane ticket to Iraq, where he reported from the war zones in the Mideast for more than a year. He speaks passionately about the effe
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Whistleblowers
Hijacking of a Nation, Part 1
11-15-2006
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NSWBC(Sibel Edmonds)
Today, foreign influence, the most baneful foe of our republican government, has its tentacles entrenched in almost all major decision making and policy producing bodies of the US government machine. It does so not secretly, since its self-serving a
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Iran
House Intelligence Committee report on Iran should be amended or withdrawn
11-15-2006
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ISIS
ISIS has prepared the following analysis to detail a number of inaccuracies in the section of the report addressing Iran's nuclear program. Our concern is that in seeking to substantiate legitimate concerns about the direction of Iran's nucl
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Property Rights
Belmont is first city to ban all smoking
11-15-2006
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Daily Journal(CA)
Belmont(CA) is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else. The Belmont City Council voted unanimously last nigth to pursue a strict law that will prohibit smoking anywhere in
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WAR: About that War
IRAQ - The Death Squads (Video Documentary)
11-15-2006
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Google Video via yannone.blogspot.com
"Don't you want America to win?"
Well, more and more around the world are saying, "no".
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WAR: About that War
Buying Our Way Out of Iraq
(Why not? It would save a lot of money)
11-13-2006
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Ingmar Lee
Our $250 million daily cost in Iraq could instead be given to Iraq. One month's expense could set up 300,000 small businesses, for example. In 5 months, you could pay off their $40 billion debt. Every day, you could give every citizen a crisp $10
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World News
Reporters on trial for publishing secret that government lied to get into Iraq war
11-15-2006
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BBC
The editor and two reporters from one of Denmark's main newspapers have gone on trial charged with publishing secret intelligence about the government's foreknowledge of the lack of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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Central Intelligence Agency
Intelligence sources question Gates' independence from Cheney, Rumsfeld
11-15-2006
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by Larisa Alexandrovna (Raw Story)
What is at stake here is preserving the Bush family legacy, which is of far greater concern to Bush loyalists than any other factor. The choice of James Baker to head a probe of current Iraq strategy only serves to reinforce this belief.
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