May 29 2003
Why didn’t I think of that dept.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
May 27 2003
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says that radicals are running things in Washington, turning the world’s only superpower into a banana republic–deliberately:
How can this be happening? Most people, even most liberals, are complacent. They don’t realize how dire the fiscal outlook really is, and they don’t read what the ideologues write. They imagine that [...]
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May 26 2003
Finally! I don’t know how many months it’s been, but it’s been waaay too long. I did yoga this morning, as soon as I woke up. Ahhh, I feel sooo much better. You wouldn’t believe all the aches and pains you will have when you get to my age, if you’re the kind of mouse [...]
May 26 2003
Smucker?s line of ?Simply 100% Fruit? simply isn?t 100 percent fruit, according to the nonprofit food watchdog group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
In fact, says the group, Smucker?s ?Strawberry Spreadable Fruit? is only 30 percent actual strawberries?and 70 percent fruit syrup from apples and pineapples, lemon juice concentrate, pectin, red grape [...]
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May 26 2003
Ever wonder if the inmates are sane and we’re the ones who are crazy? Read this:
I?ve never gone to church on any continual basis. And all this time I thought I had not been properly educated in any religious doctrine. But today?today I realized I was wrong. Today, Someone continued the lesson. It was so [...]
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May 23 2003
NYTimes.com: The Great Media Gulp
by William Safire
The future formation of American public opinion has fallen into the lap of an ambitious 36-year-old lawyer whose name you never heard. On June 2, after deliberations conducted behind closed doors, he will decide the fate of media large and small, print and broadcast. No other decision made in [...]
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May 22 2003
10. Sold Blogger 1000 shares x $ 21.80. Twenty-four hours later, the price is $406.97 and climbing.
9. Sold $90,000 in BlogShares index funds after they topped out at $134,000. I’d be worth millions by now, two days later. Guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with, at last count, the low six figures.
8. [...]
May 22 2003
2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80’s: Riskier Type Went Overseas
A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs — medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS — to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980’s while selling a new, safer product in the West, according [...]
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May 21 2003
Children’s Health is Declining, Says American Chemical Society
by Bette Hileman*
Over the past few decades, various disturbing trends have led researchers to believe that environmental exposures are contributing to children’s declining health status in the U.S. Federal and private health programs are just beginning to realize the extent of the problem and to seek solutions.
Scientists are [...]
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May 21 2003
Yahoo! News - Smallpox Immunity Lasts Decades, Study Shows:
By Maggie Fox, Reuters Health and Science Correspondent
Immunity to smallpox lasts virtually a lifetime, researchers said on Tuesday in a report that suggests anyone vaccinated in the past still has some protection if the virus is used in a bioterrorism attack.
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May 21 2003
USDA Sold Biopharm Corn Tainted with Pig Virus Vaccine to Cargill:
An environmental group and an animal welfare organization today jointly released evidence that, for a second time, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sold corn that one of its own researchers said might be toxic.
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May 18 2003
Okay, I know this isn’t new, but I’m finally getting around to it. I won’t be getting rid of Win98 quite yet, but no way am I ever going to use XP:
“Back when the American Constitution was the law of the land, a plaintiff had to wait until a crime was committed, then go before [...]
May 17 2003
Yes, this is still Born Famous. What person in their right mind would decide to start over from scratch [well, default styles and templates] at this time of night?!
Damned if I know. Stay tuned.
May 17 2003
Teen Says Her Cancer Came From Drinking Water
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