Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Meyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney's Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Open racism in the GOP: "When you tell every black and brown request that you get throughout the primary process that 'no, there's a scheduling problem.' That's a pattern... Are we really supposed to believe that all four of these guys couldn't make it because of scheduling?"Read the full story
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYtimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to gain access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
But it seems risky for a global company to even lightheartedly link spirituality and military themes during a U.S. war in the Middle East that has outraged much of the world. Especially a company that's trying to stay tight with the Bush administration while building its presence in developing countries.Read ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
"If you like the plan you have, you keep it. If you're one of tens of millions of Americans without coverage or don't like the coverage you have, you will have a choice of plans to pick from and you'll get tax credits to help pay for it." I want ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice co-owned a home and shared a line of credit with another woman, according to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, who reveals the information in his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.Read the full story
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Healthy San Francisco provides uninsured San Franciscans with access to 14 city health clinics and 8 affiliated community clinics, with an emphasis on prevention and managing chronic disease. It is, however, not the same as insurance because it does not cover residents once they leave the city.Read the full story
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Ars Technica has an interesting look at pseudoscience as it applies to homeopathy. While most discussions about what science is get derailed by the larger controversies surrounding them, Ars chose a relatively uncontroversial pseudo-science to examine so that they could examine the factors which make homeopathy a psuedo-science: ignoring settled ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I told my friend Lisa that things were so unsafe in Iraq that one of seven contributors to an amazing NYT OpEd piece on Iraq had been shot in the head. Apparently, two more died in a vehicle rollover yesterday. The original article is outstanding ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
MICHAEL GATES GILL, who once made about $160,000 a year as an advertising executive and who now earns around $10.50 an hour making coffee at Starbucks, has written a book called “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” Read the full story
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