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| What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com) |
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5:43 pm EST, Jan 25, 2004 |
] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] munitions. [ well, how about that. ] -k Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com) |
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| Topic: Arts |
4:12 am EST, Jan 24, 2004 |
Dildos, vibrators. But more than that, works of art. We combine sex toys and great art masterpieces. To make you think, to make you dream. Dildo Art |
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RE: Bob Keeshan, 'Captain Kangaroo' Dies |
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5:44 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
Elonka wrote:
] ] Long Island native Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained
] ] and educated generations of children as television's
] ] walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76.
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] (sigh) First the wolfman...Now the kangaroo.
It was a bad day to be a lyncanthrope. RE: Bob Keeshan, 'Captain Kangaroo' Dies |
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Canadian deported to Syria by United States details torture, calls for public inquiry |
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4:14 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
TORONTO (AP) -- A Canadian citizen deported to Syria last year by the United States spoke publicly about his ordeal for the first time Tuesday, detailing beatings he received in Syrian custody and calling for a public inquiry. Maher Arar of Ottawa, who spent a year in Syrian custody after being detained while traveling through New York's Kennedy airport in September 2002, choked up several times while describing the torture and solitary confinement. He believes an overzealous pursuit of terrorists in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States is partly to blame, but said only a full public inquiry in Canada can reveal what happened. That has to suck. Canadian deported to Syria by United States details torture, calls for public inquiry |
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| Topic: Society |
3:45 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
Is the American middle class in jeopardy because modern communications technology enables U.S. firms to use workers in India for tasks such as call-center staffing and software development? Pundits appear to be divided on this issue. However, if you look closely, you will see that professional economists, regardless of ideology, all disagree with the claim that the American middle class will be impoverished by trade with India. We remain loyal to the analysis first propounded by David Ricardo, who would spin in his grave if he could see the contrarian views of outsourcing recently espoused by policy wonk Michael Lind or columnist Paul Craig Roberts and Senator Charles Schumer. What accounts for the persistent belief that trade with poor countries will make us worse off? Recently, it occurred to me that evolutionary psychology might provide the answer. Anthropologist Alan Fiske has pointed out that there are four ways in which humans transact: on the basis of authority; on the basis of communal sharing; on the basis of equality matching; and on the basis of market pricing. In the era of small hunter-gatherer tribes in which our brains evolved, only the first three were needed. Market pricing is required once you start to interact with strangers. Taking Advantage |
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Moon Base: NASA's Recurring Dream |
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3:39 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
In his hotly anticipated announcement Wednesday, President Bush ordered NASA scientists to plan for a manned "foothold on the moon." They might look through their old filing cabinets to start, because the U.S. government and its contractors have been planning lunar colonies since long before Neil Armstrong took his one giant leap for mankind in 1969. Who knows... Maybe it'll be the next austrailia. Moon Base: NASA's Recurring Dream |
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| Topic: Current Events |
3:05 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
Okay, *this* is what I was looking for! I've been searching high and low on the web so that I could meme it. This webpage contains multiple 20-question quizzes on the issues. For example, the "Presidency 2004 Quiz" asks you where you stand on 20 different issues, pro and con, strongly or moderately or not at all. Then at the end you can compare your own answers against the answers of the major candidates, and see which candidates most closely match your own views. VoteMatch Quizzes |
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REPORTING THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN: LET THERE BE LIGHT IN IRAQ |
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2:42 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
The headlines screamed along with a haunting picture of a bearded Saddam Hussein: Saddam the prisoner (The Guardian), Saddam captured (The Times), The tyrant is now a prisoner (The Independent), The tyrant is a prisoner (Financial Times). The event of the capture of Saddam Hussein, or rather the US approved mediatised representation of the capture, just like the events of September 11 or the shock-and-awe bombing of Baghdad, was a spectacle for consumption of audiences throughout the world. How did the guardians of the free press (particularly newspapers, who do not have to respond to pressures of just-in-time news unlike the television news channels) react to and report this event on the morning after in the UK? A rhetorical analysis of most major newspapers published in England (broadsheet as well as tabloids, published on Monday 15 December) in terms of their reporting, leading articles and editorial comments on the news of the arrest of Saddam Hussein questions the extent to which papers merely report an event. This essay is therefore an analytical exercise in examining the construction of news through representations. It challenges the glorification of the freedom of press in liberal democracy, which is based on an objectivist notion of news reporting: journalists merely report on events existing out there as objectively as possible. REPORTING THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN: LET THERE BE LIGHT IN IRAQ |
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Brain reverberations during sleep |
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2:38 pm EST, Jan 23, 2004 |
In this study, Ribeiro et al. demonstrate that long-lasting neuronal reverberation following novel waking experiences can occur in several forebrain sites and is strongly enhanced during slow-wave sleep. Because neuronal reverberations are sustained for long periods, this may support a mechanism to recall and amplify memories until they are effectively stored. On the basis of differences observed between REM and slow-wave sleep in this and previous studies, the authors propose that the two phases of sleep play separate and complementary roles in memory consolidation. Thus, the two stages of sleep give the brain a chance to process the novel events of the day in peace. ### PLEASE MENTION PLoS BIOLOGY (www.plosbiology.org) AS THE SOURCE FOR THESE ARTICLES. THANK YOU. Brain reverberations during sleep |
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