AP - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
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AP - In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused.
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Disaster Preparedness for Child Welfare Agencies (PDF; 491 KB) Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation This guide by the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers step-by-step recommendations and a compilation of resources to assist child welfare agencies with disaster preparedness. Packaged with a companion CD version, the guide is helpful for developing or ...
Lulu, the self-publishing platform through which I'm distributing some of my work, recently announced that now they're doing "eBooks." Interesting piece of "news," since they've offered electronic distribution right from the start of their operation, and I've been using it myself for years already. What's new? It turns out the actually new part ...
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AFP - It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.
I recently reviewed a horror film called Carved that I described as a cure for insomnia. The film was boring and manipulative and not really worth your time. By comparison, Mutants makes that movie look like a barrel of excitement. Mutants is a movie that seems to have been made without anyone actually looking to see what they were making. The ...
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Looking for the 50 top Algerians? “Jeune Afrique has run an nice special on the 50 people who make Algeria what it is — politicians, policemen, generals, business people, cultural luminaries, and others,” writes Alle, at the Maghreb Politics Review.
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Ils sont femmes ou hommes politiques, militaires, entrepreneurs privés, sociologues, magistrats, syndicalistes, journalistes, artistes ou encore sportifs. Ils sont puissants, influents, talentueux, riches
Les 50 personnalités que la rédaction de Jeune Afrique a choisi de vous présenter font partie de celles qui bâtissent l'Algérie d' ...
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Judge John Walter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California late this week issued a temporary restraining order against BlueBeat after being petitioned Tuesday by the Capitol Records unit of music label EMI, which owns the Beatles' recordings.
A touching documentary about the dogs trained to sniff out hidden Japanese soldiers in World War II.
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An Ordinary Citizen argues that mobile phones are changing the lifestyles of the younger generation in Bangladesh. This is affecting the students, who “are more interested to be unnecessary indulged in useless gossip/chat for hours together, keep themselves aloof from the family and immediate surroundings”.
The new Verizon Droid, like many a high-profile smartphone just coming onto the market, has been hailed by some as a potential--you know what's coming--iPhone killer. (Chronicling the very first Droid sales in Manhattan the other day, CNET's Maggie Reardon observed that the gadget may actually turn out to be more of a BlackBerry killer.)
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New iPhone App: NASA Images
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On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single [...]
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Web 2.0 is changing everything. These changes create new issues. Protecting privacy while participating in a social world. Infrastructure and communities are going virtual but Place is the new dimension. Business needs to adapt to catch up applying the social dimension internally and externally.
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I am all for discovering the Meaning of Life. And though I was once concerned that you could never trust scientists enough to find it, many wise people persuaded me that we should still try.
Each year at Blogworld Expo, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra presents The State of the Blogosphere as one of the event’s prestigious keynotes. For those who are unfamiliar with Technorati, it serves as a directory and search engine for the blogosphere as well as a benchmark for the ranking of blogs worldwide.
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If you walked into a store to buy a jacket and had to keep it for two years, you might wonder just how much you felt like paying. This is where companies such as H&M have shown a superior understanding of humanity by pricing well-designed clothes for a naturally short life.
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Too Many Farmers Growing Genetically Engineered Corn Not Complying with Key Environmental Requirements Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest One out of every four farmers who plants genetically engineered (GE) corn is failing to comply with at least one important insect-resistance management requirement. That increases the likelihood ...
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