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College Presidents Want Lower Drinking Age
Associated Press - By Justin Pope - Aug. 19 (News Report)
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth, and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking... More »
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The Hardest Places in the World to Find a Bathroom
Foreign Policy - Aug. 14 (Special Report)
Not only does Eritrea rank worst in Africa, but it ranks worst in the world in terms of the percentage of people without access to improved sanitation facilities--i.e... More »
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For elderly, sex doesn't have to get old: survey
Reuters - By By Andrew Stern - Aug. 13 (News Report)
Getting old does not mean saying so long to sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. More than three-quarters of American men aged 75 to 85 and half of women that age are still... More »
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Obama Infanticide Attack Being Readied By 527s, Pat Buchanan Says
Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Aug. 18 (News Report)
the GOP seems hell bent on furthering the line of attack. In the minutes preceding Saturday's values forum with the presidential candidates, Pat Buchanan discussed Obama's alleged... More »
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Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
The Nation - By John Nichols - Aug. 12 (News Analysis)
Pressured by progressive activists who objected to the tepid language in a draft document prepared by the Barack Obama campaign, the Democratic platform-writing committee reworked... More »
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The wrong way to fight AIDS
International Herald Tribune - By Laurie Garrett Published - Jul. 31 (Opinion)
But it is troubling that formerly militant activists, United Nations agency leaders, government health officials, the American foreign policy establishment, religious leaders,... More »
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Tree shrews thrive, hangover-free, on alcohol
Reuters - By science,health,heath care - Jul. 28 (Blog Post)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tree shrews that thrive on fermented nectar suck up amounts that would inebriate a human but seem to have no such ill-effects themselves, researchers... More »
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Household Products: Start with labels
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul. 24 (Editorial)
The public is getting a stinky deal from industry on many fresh-smelling products such as air fresheners, fabric softeners and detergents... More »
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A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
AlterNet - By Andy Lechter - Aug. 19 (Advocacy)
Shroom opens with a serviceable overview of the biology and chemistry of psychoactive mushrooms More »
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The Importance of Exercising Your Brain
Associated Content - By Carl Benjamin - Aug. 11 (Opinion)
Just as diet and exercise are important for your body, so it is for your brain as well. More »
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Fresh scent may hide toxic secret
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Lisa Stiffler - Jul. 23 (Special Report)
The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with inviting fragrances of apple and cinnamon or a... More »
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A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source
Associated Press - By Lauran Neergaard - Jul. 24 (Special Report)
It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak. More »
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
Associated Press - By Larry Margasak - Jul. 25 (News Report)
Tommy Thompson, who was health secretary during the industry's lobbying campaign, acknowledged that a more robust food-tracking system - opposed by business groups as too... More »
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McCain Opposes Contraception -- Pass It On
The Nation - By Katha Pollitt - Jul. 22 (News Analysis)
Where is the discussion of the real issue, which is that for over twenty years John McCain has voted against contraception every time it came up and -- now he tells us! -- doesn't... More »
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Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
The Nation - By John Nichols - Aug. 12 (News Analysis)
Pressured by progressive activists who objected to the tepid language in a draft document prepared by the Barack Obama campaign, the Democratic platform-writing committee reworked... More »
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Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails
Union of Concerned Scientists / Friends of the Earth - Aug. 4 (Press Release)
Citing the recent failure of an experimental plutonium fuel assembly test at a South Carolina nuclear plant, two watchdog groups today called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to... More »
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College Presidents Want Lower Drinking Age
Associated Press - Aug. 19 (News Report)
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth, and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking... More »
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The Hardest Places in the World to Find a Bathroom
Foreign Policy - Aug. 14 (Special Report)
Not only does Eritrea rank worst in Africa, but it ranks worst in the world in terms of the percentage of people without access to improved sanitation facilities--i.e... More »
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For elderly, sex doesn't have to get old: survey
Reuters - Aug. 13 (News Report)
Getting old does not mean saying so long to sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. More than three-quarters of American men aged 75 to 85 and half of women that age are still... More »
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Pools of Fire
CounterPunch - Aug. 10 (Special Report)
All this makes Shearon Harris a very inviting target for would-be terrorists. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has fingered Shearon Harris as one of the most... More »
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Ex-UN AIDS Chief Slams CDC as Being "Completely Irresponsible" for Withholding Data Showing US Gov't Had Understated Number of New AIDS Cases by 40%
Democracy Now - Aug. 5 (Interview)
The CDC reportedly knew about the increased number of cases since last year but waited to make the announcement until the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Mexico... More »
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The wrong way to fight AIDS
International Herald Tribune - Jul. 31 (Opinion)
But it is troubling that formerly militant activists, United Nations agency leaders, government health officials, the American foreign policy establishment, religious leaders,... More »
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Tree shrews thrive, hangover-free, on alcohol
Reuters - Jul. 28 (Blog Post)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tree shrews that thrive on fermented nectar suck up amounts that would inebriate a human but seem to have no such ill-effects themselves, researchers... More »
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Household Products: Start with labels
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul. 24 (Editorial)
The public is getting a stinky deal from industry on many fresh-smelling products such as air fresheners, fabric softeners and detergents... More »
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A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
AlterNet - Aug. 19 (Advocacy)
Shroom opens with a serviceable overview of the biology and chemistry of psychoactive mushrooms More »
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The Importance of Exercising Your Brain
Associated Content - Aug. 11 (Opinion)
Just as diet and exercise are important for your body, so it is for your brain as well. More »