Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Though Wood acknowledges that there is still much work to be done before his research translates into any kind of commercial application, his initial success could prove to be a significant stepping stone on the path to the hydrogen-based economy that many believe is in this country's future.Read the full ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Candidates who have embraced various aspects of the traditional populist amalgam — class warfare, corporate greed, fundamental monetary reform, and general anti-estamblishmentarianism — have tanked.Read the full story
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The California Democrat also expressed doubts that political reconciliation in the war-torn country had been advanced by laws to share oil wealth among the country's sectarian groups and to allow members of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party to return to government jobs.Read the full story
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
“I try not to paint Digg as my arch-nemesis. The Digg method and Digg community are a wider audience than Slashdot,” he said. “But with sites like Digg, it’s the wisdom of the crowds or the tyranny of the mob. You never know what you’re going to get.”Read the full ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
What's amazing is that there has actually been any sort of connection established that establishes even the tiniest beachhead of understanding amidst all this mutual recrimination. In the last few years there has been a growing fascination among people in the West for the poetry of the Persian Sufi mystic ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Fox News to cover elections and news during the Super Bowl. Pathetic.Read the full story
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
When the Clinton team turned weapons of the powerful on the representative of the powerless, we all reacted in disgust.Read the full story
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts will endorse Senate colleague Barack Obama for president, party officials confirmed Sunday.
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
An unprecedented look behind the scenes — based largely on documents unavailable at the time — reveals a disturbing level of criminal conduct and hooliganism by the players on that team. Former coach Rick Neuheisel and athletic director Barbara Hedges accepted most of it, demanding little discipline or accountability from ...
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