Being here in DC, this story concerns me.
Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S., said the Pakistan Taliban was planning a terrorist assault against Washington D.C.
“Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world,” Mehsud told The Associated Press by phone.
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…and just leave those people to do whatever they want to do (as long as they do not hurt others). We need to take care of our own for a change
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Being vindictive makes you less happy, less likely to find employment
Vindictiveness doesn’t pay. This has been demonstrated by a current study at Bonn and Maastricht Universities. According to this study, a person inclined to deal with inequity on a tit-for-tat basis tends to experience more unemployment than other people. Vindictive people also have less friends [...]
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Soldiers may be able to regrow their limbs
The first phase of the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ limbs is complete; scientists managed to turn human skin into the equivalent of a blastema — a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new body parts. Now, researchers are on to phase two: turning that cellular [...]
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European Scientists are working to create synthetic blood
Scientists in Britain plan to become the first in the world to produce unlimited amounts of synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells for emergency infection-free transfusions.
A major research project is to be announced this week that will culminate in three years with the first transfusions into human [...]
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For all the feigned outrage over the AIG bonuses from the Democrats, Senator Chris Dodd comes clean and admits that he was the one who inserted the loophole - after saying he had nothing to do with it
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A story in The Root…
Unlike grandma and grandpa who built their lives on deep religious faith, Bible study, prayer meeting and consistent church attendance, more blacks Americans—now 11 percent—say they have no religion at all. They are not attached to any religious tradition or to any spiritual belief in the existence of God.
they are not [...]
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Final Four: Memphis, Louisville, North Carolina, Pittsburgh
Championship Game: Memphis vs North Carolina
Champion: Memphis
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stem cells just may cure
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Limbaugh should send the White House a thank you letter. While everyone else is losing jobs, Limbaugh’s revenues raised 13.5%
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From the USA Today
When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers.
The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is less Catholic. [...]
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When the White House picked this fight, I was baffled as to why they would lift Limbaugh’s status so high. But as the weeks have passed I see that this is a strategy. It also takes the media focus off of the plunging stock market and on Michael Steele and the GOP. Politically, I suppose [...]
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