Dec
31
Trailer Full of Broccoli Disappears
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Dec 28, 3:13 PM (ET)
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) – Someone got way more than the recommended daily serving of vegetables when a refrigerated trailer loaded with $50,000 worth of broccoli was stolen.
The 48-foot trailer disappeared from its rented parking space in the Chicago suburb of Villa Park sometime between Sunday and Tuesday morning, police said.
Detective [...]
Dec
31
Poll: Americans See Gloom, Doom in 2007
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Dec 31, 7:12 AM (ET)
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans’ grim predictions for the United States in 2007.
But on a brighter note, only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea [...]
Dec
31
Richard Dawkins On Forcing Religion on Children
Dec
30
[From Agenzia Giornalistica Italia]
(AGI) – Rome, Dec. 27 – Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio says:”I share Pannella’s worries and having a meeting with the cabinet I will ask to the foreign minister and to Prodi what can our government do to use all the possible diplomatic channels”. The minister was interviewed by Radio Radicale today on [...]
Dec
30
The 911 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
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[From Cool Tools]
This is a comic book version of the 911 Commission Report. No joke. It takes the narrative of the official National Commission Report and transforms it into a page-turning thriller. It’s a very fast read. Their visual timeline of the four hijacked flights is scarily clarifying. The artists do a marvelous job of [...]
Dec
29
Questions over Saddam trial justice
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By David Loyn
BBC News, Baghdad
Saddam Hussein’s trial did not meet fair trial standards, HRW says
The advocacy group Human Rights [...]
Dec
26
Intensity of Western blazes linked to warmer Atlantic Ocean
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[From: Dvorak Uncensored]
A look back across 500 years’ worth of wildfire history shows fire season intensity across WesternNorth America increases in direct proportion to, of all things, surface temperatures of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Given that the Atlantic warms and cools in 60-year cycles and the ocean is entering its next warm phase, researchers predict a [...]
Dec
23
Children Want peace
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Dec
23
Whose War?
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