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Obama SignsTobacco Bill -- Politics Daily - 0 views

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  • Obama SignsTobacco Bill
  • President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a bill that gives the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility to regulate tobacco products.
  • tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and he detailed all the ways that kids get hooked on smokes before they turn 18.
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  • * FDA regulations will supersede weaker state laws
  • bans the words "light" or "mild" in tobacco advertising
  • one cigarette is less dangerous than another
  • It bans flavored tobacco products, like clove or cappuccino cigarettes
  • submit a complete list of ingredients in the tobacco, paper, filter and other components, and allows the FDA to require the removal of any additive it says is dangerous
  • It requires this list of ingredients to be placed on all labels, which will itemize chemicals added to tobacco products
  • It restricts tobacco marketing to children, such as tobacco billboards near schools
  • applies to all tobacco products
  • passes all of the additional costs of new regulations back to the tobacco companies.
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WakeUpWalMart.com - Walmart's $4 Drugs Coming From Indian Company Whose Products Have B... - 0 views

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  • Walmart's $4 Drugs Coming From Indian Company Whose Products Have Been Banned In US and Canada
  • 30-day supplies of generic drugs for $4
  • Walmart is importing drugs from foreign countries, including India.
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  • Costco switched to selling 100 pills for $10.
  • Ranbaxy Laboratories, LTD, has been repeatedly investigated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice for "inadequate" safeguards against contamination, falsification of records and submitting false information to the FDA.
  • FDA banned importation
  • Canada followed suit
  • has no evidence that these drugs do not meet their quality specifications and has not identified any health risks associated with currently marketed Ranbaxy products
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Bozeman City job requirement raises privacy concerns - Montana's News Station - Fair. A... - 0 views

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  • background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
  • The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
  • Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.
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  • names and log-in information and their passwords.
  • require people of high integrity
  • highest moral character
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Press Release | PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008 - 0 views

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  • the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008
  • Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." - Ingrid Newkirk, President and Co-Founder of PETA
  • Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.
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  • PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes.
  • the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.
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Dumb Laws in Michigan. Crazy Michigan Laws. We have weird laws, strange laws, and just ... - 0 views

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  • Dumb Laws in Michigan
  • Persons may not be drunk on trains.
  • It is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.
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  • Adultery is illegal, but can only be punished upon a complaint by the affected husband or wife.
  • No man may seduce and corrupt an unmarried girl, or else he risks five years in prison.
  • The last Sunday in June of every year was named �log cabin day�.
  • A woman isn’t allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission.
  • There is a 3 cent bounty for each starling and 10 cent bounty for each crow killed in any village, township, or city in the state.
  • It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.
  • You may not swear in front of women and children.
  • Any person over the age of 12 may have a license for a handgun as long as he/she has not been convicted of a felony.
  • Willfully destroying your old radio is prohibited.
  • It is illegal for a man to scowl at his wife on Sunday.
  • It is illegal to let your pig run free in Detroit unless it has a ring in its nose.
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Shortcuts: Michael Brooks on five mysteries of the universe | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Five mysteries of the universe
  • 1 The missing universe
  • Everything in the universe is either mass or energy, but there's not enough of either. Scientists think 96% of the cosmos is missing.
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  • "dark energy"
  • 2 Life
  • The phenomenon we call life is something that biologists have almost given up trying to define
  • 3 Death
  • in biology, things eventually die, but there's no good explanation for it.
    • sirgabrial
      sirgabrial on 25 Mar 09
       
      it's a means of controlling an expanding population.
  • 4 Sex
  • why almost everything in biology uses sexual reproduction rather than asexual cloning - sex is a highly inefficient way to reproduce.
  • The suggestion that sex's gene shuffling makes us more able to deal with changing environments seems plausible, but the evidence is scarce
  • 5 Free will
  • Neuroscientists are almost convinced that free will is an illusion. Their experiments show that our brains allow us to think we are controlling our bodies, but our movements begin before we make a conscious decision to move.
  • testify in court
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Michael Phelps admits to smoking cannabis after bong picture is published - Times Online - 0 views

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  • Michael Phelps admits to smoking cannabis after bong picture is published
  • Michael Phelps has admitted to smoking cannabis and apologised after a picture of the record-breaking Olympian with a bong pipe was published
  • I engaged in behaviour which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again,” Phelps said in a statement.
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  • Athletes caught using cannabis, a banned substance under rules set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency, face a ban of up to two years.
  • Phelps has never failed a drugs test and even offered to take extra tests before the Olympic Games in August to promote an anti-doping campaign.
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Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios
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FOXNews.com - Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd - Science News | Scienc... - 0 views

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  • Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd
  • Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.
  • "Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference — a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
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  • "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."
  • Gates then waited a minute or so before assuring the audience the freed insects were malaria-free.
  • Gates retired as head of Microsoft last year to focus more on his foundation. One of its key projects is ending malaria and it has spent millions on fighting the disease.
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Belly Buttons May Signal a Woman's Vigor | LiveScience - 0 views

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  • Belly Buttons May Signal a Woman's Vigor
  • It may be an indicator of mating potential in fertile women.
  • "More precisely, I suggest that the symmetry, shape, and position of umbilicus can be used to estimate the reproductive potential of fertile females, including risks of certain genetically and maternally inherited fetal anomalies."
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  • During pregnancy, the umbilical cord supplies a baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother. After birth, it's clamped and snipped, leaving a short stump that eventually falls off.
  • Sinkkonen found we prefer belly buttons that are t-shaped or oval and vertical, with a little hooding, and which don't protrude. In short, we dislike outies and don't favor the cavernous variety either.
  • If further research confirms the signaling hypothesis, female umbilici may be routinely measured to detect risk pregnancies of several fetal abnormalities,"
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Student withdrawn from UK school over CCTV in toilets @ The Latest for Security Executi... - 0 views

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  • Student withdrawn from UK school over CCTV in toiletsOfficials: Cameras were installed in bathrooms following incidents of 'major concern'
  • A Teenage pupil has been withdrawn from her school after CCTV cameras were installed in the pupils' toilets. Anthony White, from Llandysul said the cameras at Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi in Ceredigion were an "outrageous invasion" of his daughter Jade's privacy. Jade, 14, said: "I am not going back while the cameras are there. It must be against the law to have them there."
  • Ceredigion Council said it had installed the cameras after incidents of "major concern".
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  • Spokeswoman Anwen Francis said: "Any such viewing of CCTV footage is undertaken by senior members of staff having Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) clearance."
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Italy bans kebabs and foreign food from cities - Times Online - 0 views

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  • Italy bans kebabs and foreign food from cities
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      sirgabrial on 25 Mar 09
       
      nice little digg.
  • The tomato comes from Peru and spaghetti was probably a gift from China.
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  • the “foreign” kebab that is being kicked out of Italian cities as it becomes the target of a campaign against ethnic food, backed by the centre-right Government of Silvio Berlusconi.
  • began in the town of Lucca this week
  • gastronomic racism
  • where the council banned any new ethnic food outlets from opening within the ancient city walls.
  • “to protect local specialities from the growing popularity of ethnic cuisines”
  • “We stand for tradition and the safeguarding of our culture,”
  • Mr Zaia said that those ethnic restaurants allowed to operate “whether they serve kebabs, sushi or Chinese food” should “stop importing container loads of meat and fish from who knows where” and use only Italian ingredients.
  • I even refuse to eat pineapple
  • Vittorio Castellani, a celebrity chef, said: “There is no dish on Earth that does not come from mixing techniques, products and tastes from cultures that have met and mingled over time.”
  • The San Marzano tomato, a staple ingredient of Italian pasta sauces, was a gift from Peru to the Kingdom of Naples in the 18th century.
  • Even spaghetti, it is thought, was brought back from China by Marco Polo, and oranges and lemons came from the Arab world.
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BBC NEWS | Health | Breast cancer gene-free baby due - 0 views

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  • Breast cancer gene-free baby due
  • A woman from London will give birth next week to the first British baby screened to be free of an altered gene which causes breast cancer.
  • Women in three generations of her husband's family have been diagnosed with the disease in their 20s.
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  • A girl born with the altered gene would have a 50-80% chance of breast cancer
  • Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) involves taking a cell from an embryo at the eight-cell stage of development, when it is around three-days old, and testing it.
  • In this case, the 27-year-old woman and her husband, who are being treated by fertility expert Paul Serhal at University College Hospital London, do not yet know if they are having a girl or a boy.
  • wish to remain anonymous,
  • "The whole objective of this exercise is not just to make sure the child doesn't have the gene, but to stop the transmission from generation to generation."
  • gene would not guarantee any daughter born to the couple would be unaffected by breast cancer because there are other genetic and environmental causes.
  • not carrying an altered
  • we must not forget the embryos which were discarded because they did carry the gene.
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WWII vet frozen to death leaves estate to hospital - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • WWII vet frozen to death leaves estate to hospital
  • - A 93-year-old World War II medic who froze to death last month in his Bay City, Michigan, home left his entire estate to a local hospital, an estate attorney told CNN Wednesday.
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Washington Times - DEA continues pot raids Obama opposes - 0 views

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  • “The president believes that federal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws, and as he continues to appoint senior leadership to fill out the ranks of the federal government, he expects them to review their policies with that in mind," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.
  • “I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," Mr. Obama told the Mail Tribune newspaper in Oregon in March, during the Democratic primary campaign.
  • "basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors, I think that's entirely appropriate."
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Resurrecting the Planet's Extinct Species -Can It Be Done? - 0 views

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  • Resurrecting the Planet's Extinct Species -Can It Be Done?
  • Scientists at the Universities of Melbourne and Texas have successfully resurrected a gene from the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
  • Col2a1 is only involved in the production of chondrocytes, the cells which produce and maintain cartilage in various joints around the body.
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  • What's revolutionary is how the DNA fragments the work is based on were dead. 
  • The original samples had been kept in a jar of ethanol for over a century, and considering how DNA breaks down over time even putting Col2a1 together was a massive success.
  • The research is extremely well-timed, with current conservation efforts focusing on salvaging as many species as possible with biotissue cataloging efforts and seed vaults around the world.
  • While the reconstruction of complete animals is a long way off, if possible at all, this research demonstrates that the basic steps are possible - it's only our time and technology that are lacking.
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Cenk Uygur: The Silent Minority - 0 views

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  • The Silent Minority
  • There is a minority group in America that is a bigger percentage of the country than blacks or Hispanics.
  • A new comprehensive study by The Program on Public Values at Trinity College shows that this group is now a whopping 15% of the country. Mormons by comparison are a puny 1.4% of the population, and people can't shut up about the Mormons.
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  • non-religious
  • not one member of Congress would even admit to being in the dreaded minority of non-believers.
  • a religious person can say that an atheist will burn in hell as a result of their beliefs, and that is not considered offensive;
  • but if an atheist says that believing in God makes no sense, that is considered deeply offensive.
  • minority that is not silent by choice but by decision of the people in power
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Official: Obama reverses stem cell policy | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 0 views

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  • Official: Obama reverses stem cell policy
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      sirgabrial on 25 Mar 09
       
      do you think that this is something that we should do when faceed with such a shitty economy?
  • Obama has signed an Executive Order today reversing the ban on federal funding of stem cells. You may recall he promised to do this during his campaign, and made a point of it in his answers for Science Debate 2008.
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  • the memorandum will order the Office of Science and Technology Policy to "assure a number of effective standards and practices that will help our society feel that we have the highest-quality individuals carrying out scientific jobs and that information is shared with the public,"
  • the Bush Administration unduly influenced
  • ideological beliefs.
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