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Want to live longer? Eat the right food
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Want to live longer? Eat the right food

Food – We all dream to live a long healthy and prosperous life, but we do so little to fulfill this dream. I have managed to write a list of aliments that should be consumed daily and weekly so that the body can function well for many years.

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Only Congress Can Declare War
This story has mostly positive ratings. 127 votes / 7 sinks

Only Congress Can Declare War

Do No Evil – By rejecting the advice and the rules laid down by the founders and early Presidents, our recent leaders have gone so far astray from warnings against entangling alliances, that the founders would hardly recognize the government they created.

Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:41am

Halliburton/KBR under fire for Iraq electrocutions
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Halliburton/KBR under fire for Iraq electrocutions

Do No Evil – Halliburton KBR improperly installed electrical wiring or failed to fix known electrical hazards at U.S. bases in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of 11 service members and 2 civilians, family members and former employees of the contracting giant testified at a Congressional hearing. KBR officials were invited to the hearing but did not attend.

Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:41am

Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran
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Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran

News – President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official.

Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:41am

Anheuser Agrees to InBev Deal
This story has mostly positive ratings. 145 votes / 2 sinks

Anheuser Agrees to InBev Deal

Money – Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreed to be acquired Sunday by InBev NV for about $52 billion, creating the world's largest beer maker and placing an iconic American company in the hands of a Belgian-Brazilian giant.

Voted for on July 14, 2008 12:40am

Antarctic Ice Breaking Up Even In Winter
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Antarctic Ice Breaking Up Even In Winter

Science – New satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.

Voted for on July 12, 2008 03:36pm

Smoking Cigarettes is injurious to health - Smoking Side Effects
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Smoking Cigarettes is injurious to health - Smoking Side Effects

Health & Fitness – Smoking causes many side effects. Some side effects are: - premature aging, hearing loss, cataracts, breathing complications, impotence and numbness of fingers, tooth decay.

Sunk on July 12, 2008 03:36pm

Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms
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Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms

Food – In an environmentally conscious tweak on the typical way of getting food to the table, growing numbers of people are skipping out on grocery stores and even farmers markets and instead going right to the source by buying shares of farms.

Voted for on July 12, 2008 03:32pm

FTC says it won't intervene to protect Internet user privacy
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FTC says it won't intervene to protect Internet user privacy

Gadgets & Tech – he Federal Trade Commission indicated Wednesday that it would leave it to data-mining Web companies and Internet marketers to decide how best to protect users' privacy.

Voted for on July 11, 2008 07:00pm

7 Rules of Wealth Building
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7 Rules of Wealth Building

Money – Practical Keys to Amassing Investment Capital.Most parents want to teach their children responsibility - how to become self sufficient and succeed in life (after all, no one plans on raising a dead beat). However, very few actually accomplish this task. Why?

Sunk on July 11, 2008 06:59pm

The Week That Should Have Ended McCain
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The Week That Should Have Ended McCain

Politics – During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser called the American people whiners, McCain released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, he flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he made - TWICE.

Voted for on July 11, 2008 06:59pm

Karl Rove Fails to Appear at U.S. House Hearing
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Karl Rove Fails to Appear at U.S. House Hearing

Politics – Rove's action today prompted the House Judiciary subcommittee to rule that his reasons for skipping the appearance weren't valid, setting up a possible contempt of Congress vote next week.

Voted for on July 10, 2008 11:46pm

Washington struggles to avoid a federal bailout of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
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Washington struggles to avoid a federal bailout of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

News – Top officials in Washington struggled Thursday to reassure the markets about the financial health of the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies as their stock prices plunged to their lowest levels in 17 years on fears that they could face the possibility of a government bailout.

Voted for on July 10, 2008 11:46pm

Hot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson Apologizes
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Hot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson Apologizes

Politics – Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, made a crude and disparaging remark along the lines of wanting to rip Obama's genitals off in reference to how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., might be alienating African-Americans with various moral instructions.

Voted for on July 09, 2008 10:55pm

The hidden price you pay for energy
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The hidden price you pay for energy

Money – Yes, we're shelling out more at the pump and paying ever-higher cooling and heating bills. But those prices aren't anywhere close to what we actually pay.

Voted for on July 09, 2008 10:55pm