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I'm the editor and writer of The Plugg (www.thplugg.com) and also a member of the band Shrugged (www.shrugged.co.uk). I'm hoping to enlarge the music and entertainment community in Netscape.

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Member Since: June 25, 2006

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10M children worldwide die from lack of health care

Health & Fitness – More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia, a US-based charity said Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (0) (ap.google.com) 10 days ago by bewita

Voted for on May 06, 2008 06:48pm

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Cyclone Death Toll Soars Past 22,000

News – The death toll from the cyclone that battered Myanmar last weekend has risen above 22,000, state radio has reported.

View Story Discuss (48) (news.aol.com) 10 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on May 06, 2008 06:47pm

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Amy Winehouse won't record Bond track

Music – Producer Mark Ronson says he and Amy Winehouse have abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because the singer is not ready to work.

View Story Discuss (1) (apnews.myway.com) 11 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on May 05, 2008 10:07am

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Solving global warming with giant vacuums

Science – Here's a simple solution to global warming: vacuum carbon dioxide out of the air. The technology works, but it would require millions of carbon dioxide filters across the planet at a cost of trillions of dollars a year.

View Story Discuss (2) (latimes.com) 17 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on April 29, 2008 08:02am

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Bottled Water - Who Needs it?

Science – Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is a triumph of marketing over common sense and challenges consumers to end their love affair with the bottle

View Story Discuss (0) (bbcworld.com) 22 days ago by psogle

Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:30am

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Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago

Science – Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.

View Story Discuss (0) (cnn.com) 22 days ago by psogle

Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:29am

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Lily Allen Blames TV Show for Weight Gain

Celebrities – Lily Allen revealed in an interview that her chat show, Lily Allen and Friends is the reason for her gaining back much of the weight she lost in 2007.

View Story Discuss (3) (carefair.com) 22 days ago by Shannonyork

Voted for on April 25, 2008 08:54am

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Climate Change May Put World at War

Science – Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.

View Story Discuss (10) (telegraph.co.uk) 22 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on April 25, 2008 08:49am

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"Bionic Eye" Operations Successful In Britain - Living on The Huffington Post

Health & Fitness – Surgeons in Britain have offered hope to blind people everywhere after successfully implanting "bionic eyes" into two blind patients:

View Story Discuss (0) (huffingtonpost.com) 24 days ago by Fedquip

Voted for on April 22, 2008 06:07am

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Federal Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana

Politics – A Bill to federally decriminalize marijuana has been introduced in congress.For anyone who disagrees with the immoral war on citizens who use marijuana,this is our best chance n 25 years to influence our leaders to choose the path of common sense and stop jailing otherwise law abiding citizens.

View Story Discuss (124) (norml.org) 26 days ago by mntnman444

Voted for on April 21, 2008 10:28am

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CBS Said to Consider Use of CNN in Reporting

Television – Over the last decade, CNN has held intermittent talks with both ABC News and CBS News about various joint ventures. But during the last several months, talks with CBS have been revived and lately intensified, according to the executives who asked for anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations.

View Story Discuss (5) (nytimes.com) 37 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on April 10, 2008 06:09am

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Jericho Seeks Home On Comcast

Television – The New York Times reported that CBS Paramount Network Television has held talks with Comcast, the cable provider, about finding new life for Jericho, citing two people briefed on the talks who requested anonymity.

View Story Discuss (0) (scifi.com) 37 days ago by corey.spring

Voted for on April 10, 2008 06:09am

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Kyrgyz babies pass HIV to mothers

Health & Fitness – Not long ago, she was a wife, mother and teacher. Now Dilfuza Mustafakulova is HIV-positive and has lost her husband and her job. Mustafakulova's baby son was among 72 children infected with the virus at two Kyrgyz hospitals. Sixteen mothers also have contracted it Ã¢â;¬" in some cases by breast-feeding their childre

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 37 days ago by capn_caveman

Voted for on April 10, 2008 06:07am

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The Coming War Between Religion And Super-Science

Religion – It's interesting that the current flavor of the month in science fiction TV is Battlestar Galactica, which is all about a clash between two religions rather than religion vs. atheism or humanism.

View Story Discuss (0) (io9.com) 37 days ago by msaleem

Voted for on April 10, 2008 06:07am