Archive for February, 2007

Global warming a hot spot for investors

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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Droughts. Hurricanes. Rising temperatures. Melting glaciers. In a world abuzz with talk about global warming, climate change is elbowing aside tech and biotech as the major investment theme of the future.

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Jesus tomb found, says film-maker

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.

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Dow Average Falls 416 Points After China Sell-Off

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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Stocks plunged in New York today after a sell-off in China rattled markets worldwide and surprisingly weak economic data fanned fears that the economy may be more vulnerable to a downturn than widely thought.

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Why David Geffen Dislikes the Clintons — Meet Leonard Peltier

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

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Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977 for allegedly gunning down a pair of FBI agents in a shootout at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, was one of the primary reasons cited by Geffen for jumping ship from New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign in favor of fellow Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

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$82 Buys E-Voting Secrets

Friday, February 16th, 2007

For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. And now he’s taking them apart.

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Bush Budget Funds NASA, Cuts EPA

Monday, February 5th, 2007

President Bush unveiled his $2.9 trillion budget request for next year Monday, beefing up spending for NASA while cutting back environmental protection and several science research programs.

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Apple Inc. Settles with Apple Corps Ltd.

Monday, February 5th, 2007

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I think most people say to themselves, “I thought iTunes already had all the Beatles songs?”

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Unhappy Meals

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

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Kucinich Ignored in the Media

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich is again seeking the Democratic nomination for the President. He’s serious, but the media, when they cover him, are not. This despite the fact that his anti-war position is far more popular in ’07 than it was in ’03.

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While the press covers the surge, troops are already on the way

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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The president%u2019s plan to send more than 20 thousand additional troops to Iraq is being hotly debated on Capitol Hill. But the troops are already shipping out. Defense analyst Bill Arkin says that while the press obsesses over politics, they%u2019re missing the facts on the ground.

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