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Religion – A couple of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors.
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(theaustralian.news.com.au)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:38pm
Politics – While many conservative commentators and editorialists have mocked concerns about climate change, a different reality is emerging among Republican presidential contenders. It is a near-unanimous recognition among the leaders of the threat posed by global warming. Within that camp, however, sharp divisions are developing.
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(nytimes.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:38pm
Politics – Fred Thompson got into the Republican race with great expectations. And sure enough, just after he got in last month, polling showed Thompson and Rudy Giuliani were just about tied for front-runner. But since then, Thompson's taken a lot of flak for a lackluster campaign from party activists in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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(cnn.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:38pm
Politics – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won public support Tuesday for a Mideast peace conference from a skeptical Egypt, boosting her bid to secure critical Arab backing for pushing Israel and the Palestinians to resume formal negotiations to end their conflict.
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(news.yahoo.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:36pm
Money – This is a planet in denial. While the existential question gets a red hot "apocalypse now" for an answer, our stock markets seem to have regained paradise lost. We are witnessing nothing less than history's first confluence of unsustainable "peaks."
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(populistamerica.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:35pm
Science – Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur which roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years ago.
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Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:34pm
Science – By Charles Q. Choi - Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows. "My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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(livescience.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:34pm
Celebrities – After being fired last spring from CBS Radio and General Electric's NBC television after he made disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, it really hasn't been a question of if, but rather, when, and where, he would resume his career.
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(forbes.com)
Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:34pm
Popular Videos – You grew up seeing your Grandma's undies, now you can wear them.
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Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:33pm
Money – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called Tuesday for an aggressive response to deal with an unfolding housing crisis that he said presents a significant risk to the economy.
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Voted for on October 16, 2007 10:32pm