April 20 {was} "National Pot Smoking Day." It's a day where people across the world celebrate in the conspicuous consumption of the magical herb, marijuana. It's an unofficial counterculture holiday that is based on the simple concept of smoking some ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 9:07AM
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The recent press about United Airlines joining the ranks of other major carriers in establishing a tough policy about seating obese passengers brings up the larger issue of what we can do to stop the epidemic of obesity in this country. As a prevent ...
Posted Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 at 8:48AM
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GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs t ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 1:31PM
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Internet service providers want to end the all-you-can-eat plans and get their customers paying à la carte. But they are having a hard time closing the buffet line. Faced with rising consumer protest and calls from members of Congress for new regulat ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:43AM
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ALIABAD, Afghanistan — The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ hel ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:26AM
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C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda. The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 9:04AM
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Plane hijacked in Jamaica's Montego Bay; crew held (AP)
AP - A gunman described as "mentally challenged" hijacked a Canadian jet on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding six crew members hostage after releasing the passen ...
Posted Monday, April 20th 2009 at 8:11AM
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WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday that she would hold a hearing to examine the National Security Agency’s interception of domestic communications after new reports that recent wiretapping went beyond what Congre ...
Posted Friday, April 17th 2009 at 10:49PM
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In their classic 1967 treatise, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton critically observed a characteristic common to societies built around racial supremacy:
{Whenever a number of persons within a society have enjo ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 6:26PM
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by mcoop
My expereice at the Whitehouse Easter Egg Roll w/ Pictures Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 01:40:39 PM PDT
This was my first time attending, and it was an expereince of a lifetime!
We ended up in Group C, which was from 11:30am to 1:30pm. We got ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 3:58PM
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No, I’m not reciting the lyrics of an extremely popular musician. I’m reciting the sentiments of numerous menopausal and pre-menopausal women. Hot flashes overheat three out of every four menopausal women. Marked by a sudden and intense heat that ris ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 3:28PM
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Lamont Adams, 16, was born, raised and died within a 2-mile geographic area in one of North Philadelphia's most violent neighborhoods. His legacy might have been no more than a murder statistic - and memories his beloved grandmother cherished of the ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 3:20PM
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Susan Todd loves her daily coffee fix. "I can drink four or five cups, easily, comfortably," said Todd, 59, of Clinton Township, Michigan. But if she skips her regular dose of caffeine, Todd warned, watch out. "I feel lousy all over. It's not that an ...
Posted Thursday, April 16th 2009 at 3:05PM
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CAIRO - The Middle East is finding, to its amazement, that it may actually like America's new leader. Barack Obama has impressed many Arabs and Muslims with promises to open a new page after years of distrust during his first presidential venture to ...
Posted Sunday, April 12th 2009 at 10:54PM
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