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Science tackles the eternal question “Who farted?”
This could add some REAL in-flight entertainment. link Researchers developing a system that uses mathematical models and sensors to locate passengers releasing hazardous materials or pathogens inside...
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The lake that gave Mission Dolores its name and location, and how it came...
thumbnail of old map The City of San Francisco was named after the Catholic mission there, which was in turn named after St. Francis of Assisi. But the Mission there is almost universally referred to...
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The Taos News goes online.
well, I mean, I just noticed they have been online. Maybe they’ve been online for months. or years. With New Mexico, you just never know what century they’re operating in, at any given moment....
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Book review: William Alsup’s “Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter...
This is a small book but a very interesting read. The subject is the death of a prominent young mountaineer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in 1933, and the subsequent search for his body....
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How to obtain YOUR Homeland Security travel records
For the first nine months of his administration, Bush sat around and ignored warnings about a 9-11-like attack, from the outgoing Clinton administration, the CIA and from its director, George Tenet;...
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Where your kids’ savings are going
NY Times Nonstop Theft and Bribery Are Staggering Iraq Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, carwashes steal water from public pipes, and...
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Temperature in Angisoq, Greenland: a balmy 32 degrees
link I may take a ride up to Angisoq; supposed to be this warm for the rest of the week. Better pack my sunscreen.
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All foreign calls are being tapped. Period. All. Totally.
Attorney General Mukasey is spreading the fear, in order to scare Congress into legalizing Bush’s/telecom’s lawless surveillance. It’s clear why the Bush administration won’t bother with warrants, and...
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Did Mark Sanford go to Argentina because he was rejected by eHarmony.com?
In another stunning development in the ongoing Mark Sanford fiasco, Over the Line, Smokey! has learned that Sanford may have been trying to “dig some potatoes” a little closer to home than Argentina,...
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There will be art: The Getty Villa and Getty Center in Los Angeles
Getty VillaGetty Museum CourtyardThe late oil tycoon J. Paul Getty rather off-handedly created two massive monuments to himself in Los Angeles: The Getty Villa and the Getty Center, which are probably...
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