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[From: Omaha World-Herald]
BY ELIZABETH AHLIN
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
COUNCIL BLUFFS — A judge’s decision to overturn Iowa’s law banning same-sex marriage was a victory almost two years in the making for one Council Bluffs couple.
Reva Evans, 33, and Ingrid Olson, 29, are one of six couples statewide who sued in December 2005 for the right to get [...]

[From: MaisonBisson.com]
New Hampshire’s deputy chief of liquor enforcement caught drunk driving.

[From: Mikhaela's News Blog]
Your Yucky Body: Disgusting Diet Trends Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Partly inspired by the disgusting facts about the weirdly popular diet drug Alli, but partly by a personal experience. A few years ago I had a horrible case of pneumonia that left me bed-ridden and barely able to breathe for three miserable weeks. [...]

[From: feministing]
As Samhita noted earlier this week, there’s some legal wrangling going on in Missouri over a TRAP law that would require abortion clinics to perform major modifications to their facilities — modifications so expensive it would effectively shut down two of the three abortion providers in the state. (Which is, of course, the law’s [...]

[From: YouTube]

[From NPR]
Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies at Age 84
by Neda Ulaby
 

Toby Talbot

The writer Grace Paley, photographed in her Vermont home in 2003. Paley, 84, died Wednesday at home; she had battled cancer. AP © 2003
 

 
All Things Considered, August 23, 2007· Grace Paley, one of the great American short-story writers, has died; she was [...]

[Via: Environmental Economics]
From Spiegel:
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.

Rocky: But Bullwinkle, there aren’t any more woods. Bullwinkle: You [...]

Following a gentle winter and warm April the fruit is ripe for the picking three weeks earlier than last year. Vintners say the early picking will make for the best wine.
It is hoped that will make French wine more attractive against increased competition from New Zealand, Australian and Californian wines.

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