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Health & Fitness – Doctors Rate New Salad Entrées Hyped by Chains
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(pcrm.org)
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Voted for on August 27, 2006 02:28pm
Money – This story happened a few days ago in Ekaterinburg city, in Ural region in Russia. One man decided to add some money to his bank account via ATM. He went to the nearest one and put 2,000 roubles (around $74). The ATM took the money and returned him a slip. Here is the photo of that slip:
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(englishrussia.com)
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Voted for on August 27, 2006 12:10pm
Politics – Scores of American troops are deserting — even from the front line in Iraq. But where have they gone? And why isn’t the US Army after them? Peter Laufer tracked down four of the deserters
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(timesonline.co.uk)
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Voted for on August 27, 2006 09:30am
Politics – 'Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over," Mark Twain once said. At the start of the 21st century, his gloomy view on the water side of the equation has been getting endorsements from an impressive - if unlikely - cast of characters.
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(iht.com)
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Voted for on August 27, 2006 01:47am
Video Games – The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Voted for on August 27, 2006 01:43am
Do No Evil – Wenger's "Most Incredible Knife," a $1,200, 85-blade Swiss-Army-style knife is apparently not a joke. I guess if you had really big pockets?
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(outdoorlife.com)
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Voted for on August 26, 2006 10:59am
Gadgets & Tech – Have you ever wondered what Google knows about you? This person decided to do some searches and found 10 things that Google knows about you. Some of the things that they know about you are if you participate in social bookmarking sites, what photo sharing services you use, your favorite blogs, and where you blog at.
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(pronetadvertising.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:23pm
Do No Evil – After reading about blogger Raed Jarrar's experience at JFK (he was forced to take off a shirt with Arabic writing on it or miss his flight), I finally stopped being depressed about the war on terror and began being proactively ed off.
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(itsnotallbad.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:22pm
Health & Fitness – More than 12m adults and one million children will be obese by 2010 if no action is taken, a report by the Department of Health is predicting. The Health Survey for England also warns 19% of boys and 22% of girls aged two to 15 will be obese.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:18pm
Do No Evil – The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced soc
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(papers.ssrn.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:15pm
Money – The China Construction Bank, one of China ’s four main state-controlled banks, agreed on Thursday to buy the retail banking operations in Hong Kong and Macao of the Bank of America for $1.25 billion. It was the first time a big Chinese bank had bought such significant operations from an American bank.
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(nytimes.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:12pm
Gadgets & Tech – Scheduled for testing next month, MIT's much-anticipated laptop has climbed in cost to $140 dollars. Yet the increased cost has allowed for some improved features such as an 8" sun readable display with an astounding 1200x1900 resolution.
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(arstechnica.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 08:11pm
Politics – While sitting in my parked car in the streets of Washington D.C., I never would have thought that 10 minutes into a game of Tekken, I'd be standing outside of my car, handcuffed, and treated like a terrorist. Was this a breach of my rights, actual security measures?
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(psp3d.xhardwarereviews.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 05:54am
Gadgets & Tech – Though the bill is ostensibly aimed at sites like MySpace, which are full of risque images of partying youths, it would actually force schools and libraries to filter out any site that asks users to create identities. It's too broad a definition and could restrict the use of Amazon, Blogger and even some wikis.
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(personaldemocracy.com)
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Voted for on August 25, 2006 12:00am
Money – Outside its homeland, the company formula mirrors that of US foreign policy: brash, bold and increasingly unpopular.
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(guardian.co.uk)
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Voted for on August 24, 2006 11:55pm