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Middle class relaxing with marijuana
via Digg by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities.
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Evolution Goes Wild in Once-Polluted Lake
via Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel by Jessica Marshall, Discovery News on May 15, 2008
Did cleanup of a polluted Washington lake drive fish evolution in reverse?
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Olbermann To Bush: Shut The Hell Up!
via Digg by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush.
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More Prescription Drug Deaths Than…
via Digg by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
In a report released in July 2005, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University said that prescription drug abuse is skyrocketing. In the United States there is a startling difference between the death rates caused by prescription drugs and more well known killers of our time…
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If Only Peanut Butter Came In This Double-Ended Jar
via OhGizmo! by Luke Anderson on May 15, 2008
By Luke AndersonI can’t imagine how much peanut butter I’ve managed to waste in my lifetime. I’m not even talking about the stuff that gets stuck on my fingers and wiped on my pants. No, I have a bad habit of throwing out the jar while there is still plenty of peanut butter to be had at the bottom. I just don’t enjoy trying to scrape it out with a knife whilst getting my hand covered in...
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Need clean clothes in 20 minutes? LG's Steam Direct Drive washing machine can deliver
via Tech Digest by Katherine Hannaford on May 15, 2008
LG thinks you smell. It's nothing personal, they just don't approve of your washing methods up until now. Which is why they've launched some special new Steam Direct Drive washing machines, which promise to wash your clothes in just 20 minutes. You can apparently shove up to 9kg of soiled clothes into the machines, and using steam instead of water, they'll be odour-less and dry,...
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Daredevil inventor flies with jet wings: the day man learnt to fly
via Tech Digest by Daniel Sung on May 15, 2008
My life is complete, or it will be when I get to do what Yves Rossy, aka Fusion Man, has done and fly at 8,200ft with rocket-powered wings...
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World Wide Telescope from MS Research is Live
via LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews by Kip Kniskern on May 13, 2008
While this isn’t strictly a Windows Live service, it is still very cool stuff and we told you about it when it was first announced, and now the World Wide Telescope is live and available for download.Check it out now at http://worldwidetelescope.org(thanks to Brandon and Twitter for the heads up!)Now I’m off to download and check it out myself. Have fun!
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Retract, Boehner
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 15, 2008
Pete Wehner, formerly at the Bush White House and now writing for Commentary, among other things, draws a line:It’s perfectly acceptable if people want to criticizeObama for his comments. One could, for example, dispute Obama’s assertionthat the Israeli-Palestinian issue “infect[s] all of our foreignpolicy.” There is a widespread view among many foreign policy elites thatall the problems...
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Bush vs Obama
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 15, 2008
This is manna for the Obama campaign, sent straight from Heaven. Who wouldn't want to run against this president this November? By conflating Bush and McCain on this, the White House has done the Democrats a massive favor.
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