CHICAGO - (REUTERS) - Scientists have long admired the gecko lizard for its gravity-defying feet. Now U.S. researchers have made a waterproof bandage inspired by the sticky surface of a gecko’s paws.
The finding, published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be used in the operating [...]
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CLEVELAND - (NYT) - A huge Ellen suddenly materialized behind Hillary on a giant screen, interrupting her speech Monday night at a fund-raiser at George Washington University in Washington.
What better way for a desperate Hillary to try and stop her rival from running off with all her women supporters than to have a cozy satellite [...]
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At the District’s tax office, the favors flowed freely.
(WP) - EVERY DAY was Christmas in the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue. One employee got $35,000 to remodel her house, two others got $15,000 to help pay off credit card bills. Breakfast and lunch were often on the boss, as were high-end [...]
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A piece by Dick Morris-
Whether on likes, dislikes, loves, hates, admires, fears, despises, or envies them, every Clinton watcher has this in common: They are dumbfounded both by the incompetence with which Hillary has run for president and her intransigence at sticking to a failed message. In a demonstration of inability and [...]
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TOKYO-(G-UK) - Japan’s grim reputation as one of the world’s suicide nations has been confirmed by statistics that show more than 30,000 people a year have taken their own lives since figures first began to rise in 1998. In 2006, there were 32,115 suicides - 25 per 100,000 people; nearly 100 people [...]
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Picture of GMO Oilseed Rape
(G-UK) - The consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varieties will be much more serious with the next generation of GM crops, an influential group of US scientists has warned.
Mixing between GM and non-GM varieties has already caused serious economic losses for producers in lost sales [...]
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HERSHEY, Pa. — The Hershey Co. is halting production of Ice Breakers Pacs in response to criticism that the mints look too much like illegal street drugs, the company’s president and chief executive officer said Thursday.
Hershey CEO David J. West disclosed the decision during a conference call about the company’s newly released fourth-quarter earnings report.
Ice [...]
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Obama Cites NAFTA in Questioning Her Criticism of Corporate World
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 24 - (WP) - Blasting “companies shamelessly turning their backs on Americans” by shipping jobs overseas and railing that “it is wrong that somebody who makes $50 million on Wall Street pays a lower tax rate than somebody who makes [...]
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LOS ANGELES -(YN)- The “fellas” who worked for Ronald Reagan — he called them that because he couldn’t remember their names — rarely saw the boss angry. But James Lake, a campaign press secretary, did, just once.Lake walked into Reagan’s section of the campaign plane in 1980 and said he had [...]
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From Slate.
Stanford University law professor Richard Thompson Ford was online Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, at noon ET to discuss his new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,” and offers ways to separate valid claims of prejudice from mere bellyaching.
Excerpts From ‘The Race Card’
The transcript follows.
Ford is published regularly on [...]
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