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Left media discusses Palin more than right media, & thus helps inflate someone who holds no significant policy position (while underestimating her)

Niece defends JFK's 1960 speech to Houston ministers as better defining 1st Amdmt's meaning & application than Sarah Palin's recent critical construction.

Happiness is as much intellectual as emotional - it results from "flourishing" in one's interaction with life, not just from "feeling pleasure." It may even result from dealing directly and courageously with pain.

NYH palliativist fights for her own life to the end

Francis Collins & stem-cell research

Do Americans have a moral responsibility to people in poverty in other countries?

"Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights" Hospitals/systems should disclose large-scale adverse events (e.g., non-sterile equip't)

David Lowry - Interim Dean of Mercer School of Theology Canon John Betit - Cathedral of Incarnation ("canon of the ordinary")

South resisted 19th Amendment into 70s & 80s (Miss. - 1984)

Boosting WiFi in the home with "Wi-Fire" ($50) - see http://www.hfield.com/

For networking "newbies" - 1 TB storage = $130. "GoFlex Home Network Storage System" See http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/home-network-storage: "The GoFlex™ Home network storage system supports the external storage needs of every computer in your home, on one device." >Connects to your WiFi router, allowing you to wirelessly store and access files and back up multiple PC and Mac® computers in your home* >Store files in a central location on your network--use one drive for all your storage and backup needs >Wirelessly share a USB printer with every PC and Mac® in your home >Access your files over the Internet from computers and mobile devices when outside of the home

Especially Virgin Mobile's Novatel, via Sprint 3G (except no roaming) - only $40/mo. Only connection to desktop must be wireless (no USB connector for communication). Need wall charger. No contract; sign on & "pre-pay" as needed. Can provide high-speed for laptop OR computer.

Small, slim with HD videO

iPhone aps to alter photos ($1-3)

Republicans attack Obama for seeing US as no more (intrinsically) exceptional than other nations, & suggesting that what is exceptional is the goals citizens strive for, not a pre-ordained status.

"Africa is everywhere, so pervasive in our lives that we barely see it. Since it is in all likelihood the continent where human evolution began, it is literally in the bloodstream of everyone. DNA aside, huge portions of everyday life and cultural achievement are unthinkable without Africa."

See esp. recycling options