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Interior Dept. Declares the Polar Bear a Threatened Species

TechnologyExpert — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:24:56 EDT

The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.

Channel: Science Tags: Polar Bears Global Warming propeller eco news

911 Operator: ' I Don't Give A S**t What Happens To You'

TimALoftis — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:46:22 EDT

As we first revealed, when Sheila Jones needed help, help never came. That despite repeated calls to Metro Nashville's 911 over a three-hour stretch about an ex-boyfriend who'd assaulted her and was threatening to come back. (via rawstory)

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: nashville 911 operator

Clinton Says She Regrets Comment About Race

digitalfever — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:55:27 EDT

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she shouldn't have suggested in a newspaper interview that Barack Obama was having trouble winning over "hardworking ... white Americans."

Channel: Politics Tags: hillary clinton US election barack obama politics

Bird flu pandemic seen needing multiple drugs

capn_caveman — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:02:10 EDT

Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs -- not just Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu -- to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts said on Wednesday.

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: health bird flu pandemic H5N1 Tamiflu

Research links common chemicals to obesity

bibbicletus — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:53:45 EDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

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McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...

Aidenag — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:32:20 EDT

Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks.

Channel: Politics Tags: John McCain Flip Flip Barack Obama Smear Politics 2008 election

Obama ads focus on religion

msaleem — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:57:16 EDT

As Tuesday's presidential primary nears in Kentucky, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is using advertising that hammers home the fact that he is a Christian.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Organized Religion and Spirituality at UCSC

msaleem — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:55:15 EDT

It was his first experience tabling at UC Santa Cruz, and Rabbi Shalom Bochner was sitting in the Quarry Plaza.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Religion must not block progress

msaleem — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:55:13 EDT

The Commons has usually debated and voted sensibly over on issues such as embryology. Will members - particularly those who are Catholic - do the right thing?

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Einstein's letter on religion sells for Ã;Â£170,000

msaleem — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:55:09 EDT

A letter in which Albert Einstein branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" has been sold at auction in London for Ã;â;;Ã;Â£170,000 to a private collector, smashing the world record for a letter by the great scientist.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

There's no religion in tragedy, say victims' kin

msaleem — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:43 EDT

Three-year-old Diya and five-year-old Mehak were the youngest victims of Tuesday's mindless attack. They were making their weekly visit to the Hanuman temple with their grandmother when the bomb exploded and they were killed.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Obama: Give Me That Old Time Religion

msaleem — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:39 EDT

After getting walloped in the West Virginia primary, Barack Obama is making an explicit appeal in Kentucky to one group where he needs help -- evangelicals. The campaign is distributing fliers in advance of next week's primary that depict Obama in the pulpit with a cross looming overhead. The flier recounts the day he visited a church, "felt a

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Go easy on religion for Harold's sake

msaleem — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:36 EDT

I used to think God's name was Harold. This was a fairly reasonable mistake for a youngster to make, having mumbled my way through, "Our father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..." during most of my childhood.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

SC lawmakers have religion on minds, in bills

msaleem — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:09:01 EDT

Faith in the public square would have a high profile in South Carolina as three bills move closer to becoming law.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion

Priest leaves McNeil Island job in protest of state religion rule in prisons

msaleem — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:58:30 EDT

The Rev. Tom Suss spent Monday afternoon at McNeil Island prison loading the contents of his office into his Hyundai Elantra. His last official day is today.

Channel: Religion Tags: religion