filed under health in the media healthy home healthwatchare your kitchen countertops killing you stop laughing im being serious here. there might be a very real and potentially deadly source of radioactive gas in your homeyour granite countertops. according to this article from the new york times granite countertops can contain high levels of uranium which is radioactive in itself and when it dec...
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an interesting competitive swarm apple sold more than a million iphone 3g cellphones its first weekend with some stores running out and two million more since then analysts say. but its july debut has been nothing less than a public relations headache for att with eager buyers complaining about dropped calls and poor network connections. some fingers point to apple which has tried to deflect t...
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it wasnt a rock concert or a revival meeting. and despite the fireworks and the neoclassical columns lining the stage and giant television screens senator barack obama did not look like the lead in oedipus at colonus. mr. obama wearing a flag pin and a confident mien looked like a presidential candidate accepting the nomination of the democratic party.......
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noah millman who cops to being a registered republican i mention it in case any of my readers cant stand to read anything written by a republican or a conservative though frankly if thats how you feel id be surprised to find you among my readers decided to try to write obamas acceptance speech. first though he tried to capture the essence of his subjecthis elusiveness. i still at this late date ha...
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by denise ross the fashion style section even. he was photographed in his signature cowboy hat and quoted although they put him in south carolina. what can you do is that better than north dakota of course there was no dampening the enthusiasm of some convention goers. at a sex politics and cocktails party on monday sponsored by the planned parenthood political action fund bill walsh a delegate...
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russian commanders said wednesday that they were growing alarmed at the number of nato warships sailing into the black sea saying that nato vessels now outnumbered the ships in their fleet anchored off the western coast of georgia. as attention turned to the balance of naval power in the sea the leader of the separatist region of abkhazia said he would invite russia to establish a nav...
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the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff secretly convened a highly unusual meeting of senior american and pakistani commanders on an aircraft carrier in the indian ocean on tuesday to discuss how to combat the escalating violence along the border between pakistan and afghanistan. while officials from the two allies offered few details on wednesday about what was decided or even dis...
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biden interview with charlie rosea 9 august 2007 august 27 acceptance speech transcript biden opens new phase with attack on mccain nyt denver senator joseph r. biden jr. of delaware accepted the democratic vicepresidential nomination on wednesday night with an ode to his middleclass upbringing and a blistering attack on senator john mccain. on tax policy and the war in iraq on health care and ...
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photo credit phillipc when the builders of the maple ridge wind farm spent 320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate new york the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. but at times regional electric lines have been so congested that maple ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk wind blowing. that is a symptom of a broad national problem. expansive dreams about ...
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eight scientific organizations ask prez candidates to protect the economy by protecting climate reuters. eight scientific organizations urged the next u.s. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting saying about 2 trillion of u.s. economic output could be hurt by storms floods and droughts. from the wsj environmental ...
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sheila c. bair anticipated the mortgage crisis long before most other regulators. but she never dreamed it would wreak so much havoc on so many banks.more than a year after the credit crisis first flared ms. bair the chairwoman of the federal deposit insurance corporation warned on tuesday that the outlook for the ailing banking industry was bad and getting worse. the swelling tide of t...
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i suspect the timing has something to do with the impending beta 2 of ie8 which is going to surprise a lot of people in terms of innovative and useful new features after more than four years in development a new feature that suggests queries as letters and words are typed into google inc.s search engine is being rolled out over the next week. google suggest which the company began dev...
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hmm... amazon.com monday agreed to acquire shelfari a social network for book lovers for an undisclosed sum. amazons acquisition of shelfari means the site will likely make it a much stronger competitor to other social networks that focus on bibliophiles according to some observers. in addition amazon earlier this month acquired online rare book seller abebooks and gained its 40 ...
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im going to take the bold bold step and say out loud that i like the work of this guy this guy who has been working in the industry for decades has a memoir out and a paying regular gig at the new york times and therefore needs my endorsement like he needs a new flavor of pepsi very very much. his name is david carr. i guess he might be a microcelebrity but for doing something instead of nothing...
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ed note for all their talk about the right to life the republicans sure dont care about the quality of that life. in an attempt to boost gop prospects at the polls this fall the arkansas party backed a measure to bar lgbt folks from adopting kids especially kids in foster homes. so on the backs of foster kids the gop tries to hold on to power. pathetic. and more of a sin than anything two men cou...
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august 26 2008 by helene cooper and mark mazzetti nytimes.com washington zalmay khalilzad the american ambassador to the united nations is facing angry questions from other senior bush administration officials over what they describe as unauthorized contacts with asif ali zardari a contender to succeed pervez musharraf as president of pakistan. mr. khalilzad had spoken by telephone with ...
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the dallas billionaire who made a fortune as a corporate raider and financed the 2004 swift boat ads has paid 2.88 million to air a 60second attack ad against barack obama that asserts a linkage to a 1960s radical antiwar groups founder william ayers. last friday new york times reporter jim rutenberg wrote about the link mr. ayers now a professor of education in chicago was a founder of the weathe...
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as ive written before im nonpartisan. my decisions are dictated by more than political affiliation and i support members across the bluered spectrum. but while the dnc and rnc websites are predictably focused on the same candidate this morning im particularly troubled with the way this new gop ad closes. regardless of whether debra bartoshevich was aware of the implicit message when she spo...
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as ive written before im nonpartisan. my decisions are dictated by more than political affiliation and i support members across the bluered spectrum. but while the dnc and rnc websites are predictably focused on the same candidate this morning im particularly troubled with the way this new gop ad closes. regardless of whether debra bartoshevich was aware of the implicit message when she spo...
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barely two days after the ghastly murder of an 80year old swami somini spingupta sets the wheels in motion. this nyt report is a study in the art of evasive reporting. i recommend repeated readings of this report to learn how to perfect the art. right from the title which says hinduchristian violence flares in india. the attack on the orphanage on monday in an isolated district called bargarh cam...
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michael janzen just posted a complete summary of his weekend working on the tiny free house on his project blog. in a nutshell he spent two days building the floor out of pallets and got some pallets up for the walls. michael janzen is not sure when or if the article will make it to print but the new york times is putting together a story on his tiny free house project. if the article by steven ku...
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fractious coalition in pakistan breaks apart islamabad pakistan the fivemonthold coalition government in pakistan collapsed monday when the head of the minority party nawaz sharif announced his members would leave the fractious alliance citing broken promises by asif ali zardari the leader of the majority party. we have been forced to leave the coalition mr. sharif said in islamabad. we joined t...
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cool... the observations were made by george orwell whose copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form exactly 70 years after they were made. the scholars behind the project say they are trying to get more attention for orwell online and to make him more relevant to a younger generation he would have wanted to speak to. i think he would have been a blogger said jean seaton a p...
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i just read on the new york times website a teacher on the front lines as faith and science clash by amy harmon and am just blown away by the story and by the dedication talent and patience shown by david campbell the high school biology teacher featured in the article. campbell helped draft new standards mandating the teaching of evolution in florida high schools because he felt that thethe kids ...
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