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Science – Like reeds on steroids, phragmites hungers for new territory. It mainly spreads when animals, water and wind carry the seed, or when stems sprout new shoots underground. Eventually, phragmites chokes out native plants, disrupts wildlife habitats and becomes a solid stand.
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Voted for on April 20, 2007 04:08am
Do-It-Yourself – Free on-line courses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Educate yourself through a variety of free on-line courses
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Voted for on April 06, 2007 09:47am
News – infant corpses and fetuses have become the newest supplements for health and beauty in China. Not only is the placenta considered a beauty remedy, but also aborted fetuses are much sought after delicacies.
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Voted for on April 03, 2007 09:57am
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Television – Product placement is annoying. You can't TiVo through it, it's distracting, and you can't get rid of it. Neilsen has compiled a list of the top 10 shows with the most product placement advertising as well as the top 10 offending advertisers.
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Voted for on April 02, 2007 11:40am
Movies – Hollywood has always been a commercial system. Tracking the phenomenal rise in product placements, tie-ins with fast-food chains, and mammoth toy merchandising deals. An ever-accelerated concentration of media ownership continues to have profound effects on contemporary cultural life.
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Voted for on April 02, 2007 11:38am
Politics – It seems that the International Criminal Court IS willing to take up the case against Blair and Bush for the war on Iraq. While the United Kingdom is a part of the court, the United States rejects its jurisdiction, although the next administration could always elect to join.
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:56am
Politics – The White House is now justifying its prosecutor purge by arguing that since these attorneys are "political" appointees, they "serve at the pleasure of the President" and need to adhere to administration priorities. But as Sen. Dianne Feinstein pointed out yesterday on Face the Nation, political means only that they are appointe
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:54am
Religion – Jade Buddha Temple, Shaolin Temple and others are making use of high tech to develop business
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:52am
Religion – Al Jazeera denies being one-sided, but as far as I'm concerned, most of its contents ARE rather biased. Just take a look at this sarcastic depiction of the new Pope.
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:51am
Religion – The human mind is a true marvel, but in certain areas it is limited. God is different from anything the human mind can think of or imagine, so the mind will become confused if it tries to picture God. Nevertheless, it is possible to understand the attributes of God that do not require one to make any mental pictures of Him.
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:47am
Religion – On June 4, 2003, President George W. Bush confided to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas: "God told me to strike at Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:47am
Religion – Scores of students waited outside the Supreme Court on Monday for a chance to listen to arguments in a test of student speech rights, a high school senior's display of a banner reading Bong Hits 4 Jesus. I would never do it, but at the same time, it's free speech, said one of 13 seniors from the Hebrew Academy who arrived at the court.
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:35am
Careers & Jobs – Successful people and leaders in all walks of life tend to have similar core qualities about them. Of course everyone is better at some things than others, but there are certain characteristics that most possess. We all want to self actualize and become the best that we can, so I will provide you with 9 reasons why you have not yet reached your f
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Voted for on March 20, 2007 04:31am
Do No Evil – Every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease. That's the same as a 747 jetliner full of kids going down every hour. The majority of water-related diseases are linked to what humans are doing to our land and water, so investing in more conservation of natural resources is also an investment in humanitarianism.
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Voted for on March 19, 2007 06:08am
Religion – Do you imagine Bill Gates likes packaging buggy beta grade software and putting thousands of competitors employees in unemployers? Yes. He does. Do you imagine Warren Buffet enjoys looking at different combinations of the same 10 digits and 26 roman characters for over half a century? Yes. He does. Do you imagine Carlos Slim (3rd richest man
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Voted for on March 16, 2007 01:26pm
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