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What is Obscene in Pensacola?
Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:42 PM EDT
It's an age-old question in the United States. Sure, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression, but the Puritanical interests in this country don't think that should extend to material they think is obscene.
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AIDS epidemic tied to gene that once protected us
Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:13 PM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The AIDS epidemic may be due to a microbial battle, which humanity won, that began millions of years ago against a different virus.
Yes Men at it Again: Posing as Oilmen in Alberta
Seeded on Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:32 PM EDT (Wired News)
Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, today.
Watergate at 35: How 'Woodstein' Did It
Seeded on Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:19 PM EDT (Editor & Publisher)
On this date, June 17, 1972, Carl Bernstein, then an unknown reporter who covered Virginia, was in the Washington Post newsroom because he hadn't finished an overdue story.
Experimental game raises the basket and questions
Seeded on Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:18 PM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
There were a few [odd] moments on Saturday during an exhibition basketball game featuring 11-foot rims.
What the World Eats | Photo Essays |
Seeded on Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:50 PM EDT (TIME)
This is an image from a photo essay on Time.com called What the World Eats. It's 16 photos taken from the book of the same name.
Gonzales Meeting With Aide Scrutinized - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:30 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R.
Romney: Libby case needs careful review - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:26 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Republican president candidate Mitt Romney, who denied every pardon or commutation during his term as Massachusetts governor, said Thursday a pardon for former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby deserves a close examination.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Washington diary: Prohibition lite
Seeded on Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:27 PM EDT (BBC News)
Opinion from across the pond about a woman who has been sent to jail for serving beer to minors at her 16-year-old son's birthday party.
Huckabee on fashion
Seeded on Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:59 AM EDT (arktimes.com)
Gov. Mike Huckabee was interviewed by Marie Claire magazine apparently. According to this he said that women shouldn't wear short skirts because they're asking for attention... Nice.
Ron Paul, In His Own Words
Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:36 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
it's important that we dig a bit deeper and learn more about exactly who, and what, he is: a vicious, contemptible racist who comforts the radical right wing like no presidential candidate since David Duke.
EIA studies impact of 15% renewables stipulation
Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:26 PM EDT (world-nuclear-news.org)
The EIA was asked by US Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to analyse the impact of a federal renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring that 15% of US electricity sales be derived from qualifying renewable energy resources.
Visions for a new Seattle Center being made public
Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:51 PM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Big changes could be in the future for the Seattle Center -- from flattening Memorial Stadium and bulldozing some of the Northwest Rooms to remodeling the Center House with glass walls and a glass roof.
Public donates to UW scientist to fund backward-in-time research
Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:29 PM EDT (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A University of Washington scientist who could not obtain funding from traditional research agencies to test his idea that light particles act in reverse time has received more than $35,000 from folks nationwide who didn't want to see this admittedly far-fetched idea go unexplore …
Major roads plan ready for ballot
Seeded on Sat Jun 9, 2007 2:25 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)
A $14.5 billion roads plan for King, Snohomish and Pierce counties is finally ready for the November ballot — after elected officials and environmentalists compromised Friday over the controversial Cross-Base Highway near Fort Lewis.
Ceci N'est Pas Une Carbon Tax — Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch)
Seeded on Sat Jun 9, 2007 1:31 PM EDT (sightline.org)
You can color me unimpressed by the big news today in the Globe and Mail: Quebec just became the first Canadian province to pass a carbon tax. For one thing, the tax is tiny, just 0.8 cents per liter of gasoline, and at comparably low levels on natural gas and diesel.
Voting for the first time
Fri Jun 8, 2007 4:57 PM EDT
Somewhere down the comments of an article seeded yesterday on NewsVine was this one from user Tania Meredith: I'm finally old enough to vote. At last! I've looked forward to this ever since my first civics class. Is it always this exciting?
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An Egghead For The Oval Office
Seeded on Thu Jun 7, 2007 8:49 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
I want a president who reads newspapers, who reads books other than those that confirm his worldview, who bones up on Persian history before deciding how to deal with Iran's ambitious dreams of glory.
In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil
Seeded on Wed Jun 6, 2007 3:55 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
This is a memoir of working in Saudi Arabia from an accomplished female Journalist. It is brilliant, gripping and really powerful.
What Density Looks Like
Seeded on Tue Jun 5, 2007 12:44 PM EDT (slog.thestranger.com)
A blog post on the concept of Urban Density, something we should all be thinking about and moving toward since Sprawl is lethal for the planet, and for us.
Clinton: Faith Got Me Past Marital Woes
Mon Jun 4, 2007 7:57 PM EDT
In a rare public discussion of her husband's infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital troubles without relying on her faith in God.
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Hey, journalists, enough with the fancy leads already! | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Mon Jun 4, 2007 4:14 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
Is Journalism (yes, with a capital J) a thing of the past in a wired world? Are we doomed forever to be reading dramatized versions of events? Is that really a doom if we are?
Teen Tests Internet's Lewd Track Record - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Mon Jun 4, 2007 3:53 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Internet.... amazing tool for horrifying people?
EU probes Google grip on data
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 1:10 PM EDT (FT.com)
The EU is probing Google's policy to hang on to search data for two years as a possible invasion of privacy.
Oregon passes Renewable Energy Standard, Finally
Seeded on Fri May 25, 2007 12:43 PM EDT (bendweekly.com)
Strangely, the state with one of the best overall environmental policies in the Union, is the last one on the West Coast to require a certain percentage of renewable energy from its utilities.
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