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UN Messenger of Peace
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Posted to Business on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 06:05:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has come up with notion that UN should use celebrities to focus public attention on critical international political and social issues. So he appointed George Clooney as UN peace envoy, ninth such person appointed to such role.
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Music At The Super Bowl
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Posted to Sport on Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:21:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Tom Petty was half-time performer at this year's Super Bowl. He played "American Girl", "Free Fallin'", "I Won't Back Down", and "Runnin' Down A Dream", and reviewers seemed to agree that he was his usual professional self.
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Straight Talk Express Rolls Romney
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Posted to Politics on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 09:48:15 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Seniors and Latinos gave John McCain victory in Florida's Republican primary.
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Science Seducing Us Away From God
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Posted to Religion on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 02:58:07 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Pope Benedict warns us against "the 'seductive' powers of science that overpower man's spirituality", reviving science-versus-religion debate (speech in French) that got him booed off one Rome college campus.
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Was it Over When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor!?!
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Posted to Politics on Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 11:43:38 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has defeated former President Bill Clinton Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
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Could The Clinton-Obama Race Get Uglier?
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Posted to Politics on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 11:13:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Obama's campaign purchased national television airtime on CNN and MSNBC in preparation for South Carolina primary. Hillary Clinton's advisers call this "a clear and blatant violation" of agreements between Democratic candidates not to campaign in Florida. No, Obama was not stumping in Florida, nor had he bought any local television advertisements, but Clinton claims that since 92% of Florida households get CNN, and Obama's campaign knows this, his purchase of airtime amounts to violating his pledge.
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US Abortion Rate Lowest Since 1976
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Posted to Etcetera on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 12:07:39 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
There were 1.2 million abortions performed in US in 2005, latest year for which records have become available. That was fewer abortions than in any year since 1976. Number of US abortions dropped 9% between 2000 and 2005, and dropped 25% since 1990.
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And If You Smoke Yourself To Death...
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Posted to Media on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 12:10:29 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Consider tale of Skip Legault, poster boy for New York's anti-smoking posters and commercials. Since he started smoking at age 8, he has had two heart attacks, strokes, surgeries, and at least seven blood clots, one of which caused gangrene and amputation of his right lower leg.
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Potent Quotables: Famous Movie Lines
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Posted to Media on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 06:55:32 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
"Here's looking at you, kid." "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." What do you remember as greatest movie quotes of all time? American Film Institute offers its top 100, but what do they know? Which ones haunt your dreams?
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Does "Medical Prayer" Work?
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Posted to Religion on Mon Jan 14, 2008 at 11:57:30 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
"A 1998 Harvard Medical School survey estimated that 35% of Americans pray for good health and that 69% of those who pray find it 'very helpful' -- a bigger percentage than felt their visits to doctors had been very helpful. A much larger study conducted by the National Institutes of Health in 2002 found 43% of people in the United States pray for their own health, and 24% seek the prayers of others. Most strikingly, 73% of critical-care nurses in a 2005 national survey said they use prayer in their work."
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Unhappy Arabs
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Posted to Politics on Mon Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:12 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
People traveling through Middle East report that most Arabs feel disgruntlement and doubt. "If you are old, the place where you live is likely to have changed so much that little seems friendly and familiar. If you are young, years of rote learning in dreary state schools did not prepare you well for this new world. In your own country you have few rights. Travel abroad and they take you for a terrorist. Even your leaders don't count for much in the wider world."
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Racial Disparities In US Cancer Treatment
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 09:16:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
US blacks receive inferior cancer treatment compared to whites. Disparities in treatment first documented in 1992 have continued despite all efforts to erase them. Researchers studied treatments for cancer given to more than 143,000 Americans over age 65 from 1992 to 2002 under Medicare, and their findings were published by American Cancer Society.
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