Teachers disciplined for Facebook postings, Charlotte Observer (Nov. 12, 2008)
Some stories about people who got fired, suspended, or reprimanded in Charlotte for posting ill-advised material (including complaining about their students) on Facebook.
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Mayo Clinic - Modest Gain in Visceral Fat Causes Dysfunction of Blood Vessel Lining In Lean Healthy Humans; Shedding Weight Restores Vessel Health
Very, very bad news for porkers like me. Even "modest" weight gain (nine pounds) taking the form of increased visceral fat ("organ" fat in the abdomen, not subcutaneous fat) is closely linked to significant loss of arterial function. The good news is that it's reversible -- on losing the weight again, arterial function returns to normal.
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John Gray: A shattering moment in America's fall from power | Comment is free | The Observer
Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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Internal DHS Documents Detail Expansion of Power to Read and Copy Travelers' Papers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Columbus Dispatch : Where's Dad?
As of 2006, the proportion of babies born to women 30 and under who are born out of wedlock rose to just over half.
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:: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and 'Rise of Slime' ::
Jeremy Jackson talks about the "rise of slime" in the world's oceans -- toxic bacteria, jellyfish, algal blooms, et cetera.
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times
As we dump more and more nitrogen and CO2 into the oceans, conditions of eutrophia and hypoxia develop. The resulting enormous algal blooms kill coral reefs and starve fish. This is the "rise of slime," as one scientist puts it.
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Terence McNally, Susan Jacoby, "How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America," Alternet, August 15, 2008
Basically follows the precedent set by Hofstadter.
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Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say - washingtonpost.com
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to c
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Google Health, HIPAA, and privacy
A short post from Profy.com reminding us that Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are not covered by HIPAA privacy regulations. Sure, they have strict privacy policies, but -- as the post asks -- what about the first time an insurance company subpoena
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School-lunch beef supplier found violating health regs
Nasty news about the U.S. beef business. Animal rights activists find employees of a major California operation forcing "downer" cows into the slaughterhouse, sometimes using a forklift to transport cows too sick to walk. 143 million pounds of meat are re
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Did you know: half of all U.S. teachers quit within five years?
I didn't know this, but it doesn't surprise me. Citing salaries too low to repay student loans (needed to get the master's degrees now required in many jurisdictions), as well as hostile working conditions, the average teacher quits 2 1/2 years after star
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So, how evil is Facebook, really?
I use Facebook every day now. I'm pretty well hooked. But this article, which talks about the intellectual pedigree (Girard), political sympathies ("Thatcherite") and financial connections (the CIA) of its board, gives me the creeps in a big way.
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
Why Huckabee scares me: "We need to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards"
Yesterday in Michigan: "What we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards..." Someone explain to me how this is not Christian Reconstructionism.
more fromwww.talk2action.org
Jared Diamond on global consumption inequalities
I've wondered for a long time when someone would make this point publicly: "development" of the developing world is ecologically unsupportable. He calls the promise of development "a cruel hoax."
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A first-person account of CIA imprisonment
This is perhaps the most stomach-turning report I've read since the news about Dilawar broke (in case you've forgotten, that was the taxi driver who was gradually beaten to death in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, even though interrogators believed he was ju
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Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"
Larkin's bitter (not to say vicious) classic short poem.
more fromwww.artofeurope.com
No WMD in Iran? Really?
The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control is not so sure about the comforting news in the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. They see considerable evidence that Iran's bomb-development capacities are strong and growing.
more fromwww.iranwatch.org
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