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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Another Blogger Bites the Dust
Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings, which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community’s classified intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, … Continue reading
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Steal this Identity – Please
It seems that each decade these days can be associated with a particular kind of crime. The 80’s was rife with muggings, in the 90’s carjacking was all the rage, and now, in the brave new millennial decade of the … Continue reading
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Photo of the Day
Two of nature’s most spectacular phenomenon create an unusual alliance in this news photo from the affluent city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. from the Daily Mail
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Mad Max Meets Dog Days of Summer
So this morning we were en route to Russo’s, the super fresh produce market in Watertown, rolling through Watertown Square in the White Whale, when we saw something we couldn’t believe. A quietly dignified although definitely shabby elderly woman was … Continue reading
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Wi-Fi Wars
Some wireless users sneak in their own food with their laptops. Others buy one cup of coffee at 9 a.m. and surf the Net until closing time. And the truly audacious sit for hours without making any pretense of a … Continue reading
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Preserved for Posterity
GUBEN, Germany — Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the German inventor of a body-preserving process called plastination, is always eager for volunteers, people willing to donate their corpses for his public anatomical displays. He says 6,800 individuals have pledged their mortal … Continue reading
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Preserved for Posterity
GUBEN, Germany — Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the German inventor of a body-preserving process called plastination, is always eager for volunteers, people willing to donate their corpses for his public anatomical displays. He says 6,800 individuals have pledged their mortal … Continue reading
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Our Audition with the International Jewish Conspiracy
Feelings of empathy lead to actions of helping – but only between members of the same group – according to a recent study in the July issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, an official publication of the Society for … Continue reading
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Crisis in the Heartland
Older farmers are at high risk for injury when they stop taking prescribed pain medications, shows a study done in part by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. A case review of farmers aged 66 and older in Alberta, … Continue reading
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Never Mind
The hip-hop hottie who bears the moniker Notorious K.I.M. looked more like her rap mentor, the Notorious B.I.G., when she was released from a federal prison in Philadelphia yesterday after serving a 10-month stint for lying about a shooting outside … Continue reading
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