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Las Vegas Envy
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: July 17, 2008
You’ll remember that Massachusetts was the first state to legalize gay marriages, thanks to a court ruling in 2004. Everyone was not thrilled. There were petitions and attempts to pass constitutional amendments. Mitt Romney, who was evolving from liberal Republican governor to desperate Republican presidential candidate, declared his [...]

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Say Hello to the Bugs in Your Gut

Your small and large intestines are home to countless microbes that some scientists think may play a role in determining how fat or skinny you are.
Patrick J. Skerrett and W. Allan Walker, M.D.
NEWSWEEK
Updated: 3:36 PM ET Dec 1, 2007

Whenever you eat, even if it’s just a bowl of cereal while standing [...]

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July 11, 2008
By JOHN R. MILLER

Washington
PRESIDENT BUSH has won support abroad and bipartisan praise at home for his efforts to combat human trafficking, the slavery of our time. But now that work is imperiled by his own Department of Justice.
At the United Nations in 2003, Mr. Bush denounced the sex trafficking of women and [...]

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MERCEDES are aiming to end the need for filling your fuel tank with petrol or diesel within just SEVEN YEARS.
The German firm are determined to make their model range run on alternative fuels - to improve costs, become more eco-friendly and because the oil supply will eventually run out.

Read the article here…

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Dr. Fuhrman focus’s on the differences in diet and the medical/scientific issues related to such diets.
He does not address moral issues in this article.  I think this is a very good overview and introduction to the concept of healthy eating and realizing that disease is almost always a by product of a deficient and toxic  [...]

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Besides the fact that our leaders despise, use and abuse us - well here is a good example of the kind of people we have er……watching out for our interests and protecting our rights.
Addington Displays Contempt for Congress

James Joyner | Friday, June 27, 2008from http://www.outsidethebeltway.com

David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was testifying under [...]

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Jenna Norwood visits a permaculture jungle farming community in Hawaii where residents live off-the-grid and off-the-land. The diet consists of wild, fresh, raw foods grown locally. Take the jungle tour with Jenna to get a glimpse of what life is like living jungle-style.

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January 27, 2008
The World
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
By MARK BITTMAN
A change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.
It’s meat.
The two commodities share a great deal: Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal [...]

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This is in answer to a comment at this post - http://locokazoo.com/2008/02/15/my-opinion-on-why-mormons-shun-outsiders/
rosarita wrote:
I have recently met a bunch of mormons. They are nice people but do things a little differently than the rest of the world. They store food because they think the world is coming to an end. I do not get that. They [...]

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