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Washington Post Correspondent Killed in Iraq
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Washington Post Correspondent Killed in Iraq

News – A veteran Washington Post special correspondent was shot to death Sunday in southwest Baghdad while on assignment, the first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war.

View Story Discuss (15) (washingtonpost.com) 279 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on October 15, 2007 10:01am

VIDEO: Ralph Nader:
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VIDEO: Ralph Nader: "Things are a lot worse than we thought!"

Politics – VIDEO: Ralph Nader: "Things are a lot worse than we thought!"

View Story Discuss (127) (youtube.com) 279 days ago by snuffysmith

Voted for on October 15, 2007 10:01am

Breaking 12 Myths about Condoms
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Breaking 12 Myths about Condoms

Health & Fitness – Many people do not want to use condoms because of the myths around condoms.

View Story Discuss (129) (geniusbeauty.com) 279 days ago by geniusbeauty

Voted for on October 15, 2007 10:00am

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U.S. Army lowers its recruiting standards

News – The US Army met its recruiting goals for the last year but enlisted thousands of new soldiers with criminal records and fewer who have earned high school diplomas, according to figures just released. The spike of new enlistees given "character" waivers for fiscal 2007 continues an upward trend in the number of recruits with past arrests.

View Story Discuss (0) (chicagotribune.com) 282 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 11, 2007 07:25am

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Political science expert calls for political overhaul

Politics – Professor Larry Sabato's new book, titled "A More Perfect Constitution" is a labor of love, the labor of a lifetime and a provocative attempt to get people thinking and talking about nearly two dozen ways to improve the U.S. Constitution. "It was a book I had to write, and I'm glad I did it, whatever the response," Sabato said.

View Story Discuss (0) (dailyprogress.com) 283 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 10, 2007 08:53am

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Rising grain, energy prices push up bills at supermarkets

Money – This morning, your bowl of cereal and milk probably cost you 49 cents. Last year, it was 44 cents. By next year, it could be 56 cents. It's enough to make you cry in your cornflakes. The forces behind the rise in food prices -- China's economic boom, a growing biofuels industry and a weak U.S. dollar -- are global and not letting up anytime soon.

View Story Discuss (0) (chicagotribune.com) 284 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 09, 2007 06:52am

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Chicago Marathon Meltdown May Affect Olympic Bid

Sports – The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon meltdown is making Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid more vulnerable to criticism from rival host-city candidates and placing the city on thinner ice as it prepares to host its first Olympics-related competition later this month, some observers say.

View Story Discuss (0) (chicagotribune.com) 284 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 09, 2007 06:49am

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Blood Vessels Grown From Patient's Skin

Health & Fitness – From a snippet of a patient's skin, researchers have grown blood vessels in a laboratory and then implanted them to restore blood flow around the patient's damaged arteries and veins. It is the first time blood vessels created entirely from a patient's own tissues have been used for this purpose, the researchers report in the current issue of The N

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 285 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 08, 2007 10:50pm

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Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight

Gay & Lesbian – ven now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Santa Fe, N.M. Sitting with those she considered friends, "people were laughing and making certain kinds of comments, and I told them, 'Please don't do that, because I'm gay.'"

View Story Discuss (3) (nytimes.com) 285 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 08, 2007 10:45pm

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Democrats to Offer New Surveillance Rules

News – House Democrats plan to introduce a bill that would let a secret court issue one-year "umbrella" warrants to allow the government to intercept e-mails and phone calls of foreign targets and would not require that surveillance of each person be approved individually. The Protect America Act, which expires in February, has been criticized.

View Story Discuss (0) (washingtonpost.com) 286 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 07, 2007 10:00am

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Obama says private security contractors raise risks for US troops

Politics – White House hopeful Barack Obama said that private security contractors in Iraq are raising the risk for US troops because Iraqis don't distinguish between the forces. He also criticized the pay disparity between soldiers and private contractors. "You've got young men and women signing up to serve, willing to spill blood for America...."

View Story Discuss (0) (boston.com) 286 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 07, 2007 09:34am

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Military sees big decline in black enlistees

News – African-Americans, whose longstanding relationship with the US military helped them prove their abilities and offered a way to get ahead, have turned away from the armed forces in record numbers since 2000, a period covering the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the start of the Iraq war. The number of black enlistees has fallen more than 58%.

View Story Discuss (0) (boston.com) 286 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 07, 2007 09:25am

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Worshiping Paris

Travel – From the outside, St-FranÃ;§ois-Xavier Church just might be the ugliest church in Paris. A 19th-century hulk, it drips with decades of brownish-gray grime. There is not one memorable feature on its facade. St-FranÃ;§ois-Xavier stands on a loud, traffic-clogged intersection leading to the Montparnasse

View Story Discuss (0) (travel.nytimes.com) 287 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 06, 2007 09:59pm

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US Pays Steep Price for Private Security in Iraq

Politics – It costs the U.S. government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops.

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In the Race to Buy Concert Tickets, Fans Keep Losing

Celebrities – LISA SENAUKE, a Bruce Springsteen fan since 1973, tried to get tickets to his Oct 26 concert in Oakland, Calif. The tickets were to go on sale at 10AM on Sept 17, and starting at 9:58AM, she logged into her Ticketmaster.com account, credit card in hand. But though she tried again and again for the next hour, she was always told the same thing: noth

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 287 days ago by HealthDoctor

Submitted and Voted for on October 06, 2007 09:17am