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Close Call In Space Tonight: Asteroid Zips By Earth
from cnn.com: Only in space would 2 million miles be considered a close call. An asteroid with an estimated diameter of three football fields zoomed by Earth late Monday, missing our home by about that distance. It traveled at some 27,000 miles per hour. The asteroid came just about a year after a relatively small…
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Rockefeller: “I Wouldn’t Drink That Water If You Paid Me”
WV Residents Still Wary of Water After Chemical Leak from thelead.blogs.cnn.com: It was a half-day for the students at Grandview Elementary in North Charleston, West Virginia, Monday, and it wasn’t in observance of George Washington’s birthday. Teachers at the school reported smelling a licorice-like chemical odor this morning, a lingering problem since last month’s chemical…
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‘Natural’ vs ‘Organic’: How Food Labels Deceive
from abcnews.go.com: When strolling the supermarket aisles, do you know the difference between “natural” and “organic”? Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food watchdog group, has been battling what he considers misleading or confusing labels — everything from “natural” to “whole grains” for decades. “The food industry…
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Bizarre Rant About 9/11 At Florida School Board Meeting
from mynews13.com: The Marion County School Board’s vice chairwoman raised eyebrows when she closed the meeting with a bizarre rant, claiming she had cracked a “secret code” related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Angie Boynton was noticeably absent when Florida’s first lady visited Marion County Schools Thursday. At the end of Tuesday night’s board…
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Australian ISP’s against government crackdown on piracy
from afr.com: Australia’s leading internet service providers have hit out at proposals by Attorney-General George Brandis to stop internet piracy as being a “political thought-bubble” and burden on the industry that won’t stop crime. Senator Brandis last week said the government was considering the introduction of graduated warnings scheme, known in the industry as a…
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Japan, U.S. apart over farm produce, auto trade in TPP trade talks
from houseofjapan.com: Japan and the United States moved no closer to an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact in ministerial talks Saturday, remaining divided over thorny farm produce and auto trade issues. Both governments will “continue to work” on narrowing the gaps ahead of an upcoming plenary ministerial meeting in Singapore, Japanese…
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Catfish Oversight, Weather Radios and Christmas Tree Tax: Meet the Pork-Filled $956B Farm Bill
Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion in Food Stamps, Preserves Handouts to Koch Industries* from dailymail.co.uk: The federal government pays for a $15 million ‘wool trust fund,’ runs a $170 million program to protect catfish growers from overseas competition, sets aside $3 million to promote Christmas trees, funds another $2 million to help farmers sell more…
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Sexually Transmitted Food Poisoning?
from npr.org: Twenty-five years ago, two pals went out for a seafood dinner while vacationing in the Bahamas. What could be better than some fresh grouper steaks and a night on the town without the wives? Um, plenty. A few hours after dinner, the men started having stomach pains and diarrhea. Their legs began to…
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‘I Cast Satan Out’: Following Obama Controversy, You Won’t Be Seeing Devil in ‘Son of God’ Movie
from theblaze.com: Amid the success Mark Burnett and Roma Downey had with “The Bible” miniseries last year came the major controversy over the claim that Satan, played by actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazan, looked just like President Barack Obama. Downey told TheBlaze Thursday that the controversy over the devil was a distraction that took attention away…
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No Evidence of ‘Coffee Break’ on Mars
from nytimes.com: Scientists did not find a Dunkin’ Donuts on Mars, but they did figure out where a rock that looks like a small jelly doughnut came from. Last month, the rock, about an inch and a half wide, showed up in one of the photographs taken by the NASA’s Opportunity rover. In addition to…
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California Woman Touting ‘Vampire Face-Lifts’ Arrested
from chron.com: A woman who advertised “vampire face-lifts” and other cosmetic procedures she wasn’t licensed to perform was arrested after a suspicious death at a Southern California beauty salon, police said Thursday… Investigators at the salon found medical equipment and controlled substances used for cosmetic procedures that Gonzalez was advertising but not licensed to perform,…
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable Agree to Merge in $45 Billion Deal
from washingtonpost.com: Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable would create a cable television behemoth in an industry that has steadily increased prices for bundles of channels and services that many consumers dislike but feel forced to buy. But the merger would have far greater implications for the future of media and communications, with…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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Facebook Offers Users More Online Gender Identities
from seattletimes.com: Facebook said the changes initially will cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
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Crazy Ant Invaders Have Acid Advantage
from nytimes.com: The crazy ant, the latest ant to invade North America, is having remarkable success at replacing its predecessor, the red fire ant, former king of the invaders. Part of the reason, according to research at the University of Texas, is that the newcomer can detoxify fire ant venom in a way not seen…