Twitter Starting A Revolution?
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This article kind of answers a couple of questions into regards of whether Twitter is helping Iran in their struggle? It shows a different point of view.
Saam @ June 21, 2009
Cheney Admits Hussein Had No Ties To 9/11
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In a rare move, ex-Vice President Dick Cheney admits that the old dictator of Iraq had no ties to 9/11. He also admits that even though originally there was word out that Saddam had ties, they turned out to be untrue.
Read the article here and comment on what you think of all of this?
Saam @ June 1, 2009
FDA approves Reclast (zoledronic acid) for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women
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The FDA has approved the first therapy to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis for two years in a single dose. The FDA based its decision on a study done on 500 women with osteopenia (low bone mass), showing that a single infusion of this new treatment significantly increased the bone mineral density. A large number of women have osteopenia and if this treatment works, it will prevent even another problem for all aging individuals–osteoporosis.
moe @ June 1, 2009
Charge: Ahmadinejad Rants to Hide His Jewish Roots
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According to this article, President Ahmadinejad hails from a Jewish background. The article argues that he changed his name in order to hide his true identity.
moe @ June 1, 2009
Students Balk At Higher Fees
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In a new way, students stand agaisnt rising athletic fees. Students are protesting and voting against raising the fees for athletics so sports can continue at major universities. So far three colleges in California have voted to not raise the fees in an economic situation that the state is in. Currently the state is already raising fees for tuition and students can’t justify another increase.
Read the article here and comment if you think all students should bare the burden for sports?
Saam @ May 29, 2009
Ethical In Unmoral Times
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Harvard Business School has a voluntary oath that graduates can take and only twenty percent have signed on. The oath is about being ethical in the era following the Enron and Worldcom collapses. The more interesting thing it seems is not the fact that the students are signing this, but that only twenty percent did sign it.
Read the article and comment on what you think?
Saam @ May 29, 2009
Theological Schools Merging
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More and more theological schools are merging with each other to survive. I guess this is a sign of the financial downturn that schools are facing.
Read the story here and comment on what you think.
Saam @ May 29, 2009
Get 9 Nations to the Milan 2009 Homeless World Cup
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9 nations out of 48 total are having difficulty making the Homeless World Cup–”an annual, international football (soccer) tournament, uniting teams of people who are homeless and excluded to take a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country and change their lives forever.”
moe @ May 29, 2009
An Aspirin A Day Brings No Clear Benefits To Healthy People
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A study at Oxford University which included 95,000 people as subjects suggests that there are no benefits in taking aspirin to prevent vascular diseases. If that isn’t enough, the study also suggests that the long term use of an aspirin for every day use has a significant increase in risk of gastrointestinal bleeds.
moe @ May 29, 2009
Human Skin Alive With Bacteria, Especially The Forearm
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“After all those years of being told by our grandmothers to wash behind our ears we would have been better off washing our forearms!”
moe @ May 29, 2009
Squatters Kicked Out Of Self Made Shelter
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In Los Angeles, Caltrans is working on cleaning up a squatters camp that the homeless have set up under the 10 freeway.
Saam @ May 28, 2009
Growing Your Own Garden
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This is a cool garden about how to grow your own vegetables in your garden. It goes through some basics and pretty informative. I would recommend everyone to atleast try it once.
Read the article here and comment if you have had any success stories of your own.
Saam @ May 28, 2009
How To Guide On Passwords
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deviating a bit from our traditional news topics, here is one about being more secure on the net. A cool little article on securing yourself on the web.
Read the article here and comment on any ideas you have.
Saam @ May 28, 2009
Mayor Bloomberg Calls A Reporter A Disgrace
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In a weird exchange, the Mayor of New York City called a reporter a disgrace because the reporter was asking about how the mayor wants to change term limits.
Read the exchange here and comment on what you think?
Saam @ May 28, 2009
California’s State Mess Traced Back Decades
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In this op-ed piece, it goes back and puts the blame to voters back in 1978 when they voted for Prop 13.
Read the article here and comment on what you think?
Saam @ May 28, 2009
School System In California Failing
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It is sad that the school system in California is failing so bad that the federal government doesn’t want to help. But here is the question, wouldn’t you want to help a failing system so it gets better. With ignoring it, it seems as if it will get only worse.
Read the article here and comment on what you think?
Saam @ May 22, 2009
Obama Looking More Like Bush?
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More and more President Obama is making decisions like his predecessor and now is blocking the release of photos of Detainee abuse. He says it is in the best interest of national security and if they were released it would put our troops at jeopardy. Read the article and comment on what you think. Doesn’t it seem that more and more his actions behind the scenes replicate his predecessor?
Saam @ May 13, 2009
Boston To Adopt Similar Menu Requirements As New York
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New York has required restaurant chains to post calories next to menu items for over a year now, and now Boston would like to follow them. The article doesn’t go in depth about the results of people’s health after it went into effect, instead it just shows how people claim they sometimes change their order. I guess according to one gentleman, the temptation is there.
Saam @ May 13, 2009
Yoo In Hot Water
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John Yoo who is a distinguished visiting professor at Chapman Law might be reprimanded by the state bar for his involvement on the torture memos. It seems as if a new report will be released in the coming weeks recommending punishment for his involvement.
Saam @ May 6, 2009
AP/Miami Herald examines potential use of H1N1 vaccine
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The article talks about the possible effect of the vaccine for the H1N1 (Swine) flu virus that can be developed and how it could be ineffective compared to the population getting earlier medical treatment. The concern here is that many uninsured people would delay getting treatment and may cause harm to themselves and others. Also there are several proposals about the government stepping in to make available free flu shots among other things.
moe @ May 5, 2009
Off-label uses of drugs should be approved for very ill patients, opinion piece states
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In a piece inside the Wall Street Journal, Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago writes that since the drug approval by the FDA is a slow process, there should a consideration to allow unapproved drugs to be available for sick patients, particularly those with cancer.
moe @ May 5, 2009
What Is A Pandemic? What Is An Epidemic?
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Here is a great site for understanding the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic. There is a chart of all pandemics recorded throughout history as well great deal of information about the Swine Flu.
moe @ May 5, 2009
New York Pastor Making Too Much?
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It has come to the public’s attention that a New York Pastor will be making 250,000 a year with 11,500 a month for housing. The question at hand is whether pastors make too much money for preaching the gospel?
Read the article here and comment on what you think?
Saam @ April 29, 2009
Oldest Object Seen From Earth
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So astronomers have seen a burst of energy from a dying star. The gamma ray gave a 10 second blast which would be from when earth was 630 million years old.
Saam @ April 29, 2009
People Still Don’t Care About Torturing
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After a random sample of 973 Americans conducted by CBS/Ny Times , 62% of Americans still believe congress should not hold hearings to investigate the treatment of detainees.
Do you think we should investigate whether we treated detainees properly or not?
Read the article here and comment on what you think?
Saam @ April 29, 2009
Newton Mayor Seeks Raises For City Heads
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Mayor Cohen of Newton, MA is seeking raises for city department heads as the economy is tanking in his community. Under the proposal, he is not seeking a raise for himself as he withdrew that idea after an outcry. What I found interesting is that he is trying to freeze the annual cost of living increase for regular city employees.
Do you think it is fair to raise salary’s for the bosses, while freezing the average Joe’s salary?
Read the article here and comment.
Saam @ April 29, 2009
Not Fair
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So Mayor Bloomberg who is running for reelection has out spent his opponent 7 to 1 during his reelection bid. That is an astonishing number since he is using his personal fortune to outspend his competition which won’t have the same personal fortune as himself.
Read the article here and comment on if you think we need campaign finance reform or not?
Saam @ April 24, 2009
Iraqi Death total
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So a new study has released show how many deaths there has been since 2005, and that total is an astonishing 87,000 people. It seems as if the Iraqi’s are suffering for there freedom.
Please read the article and comment on what you think.
Saam @ April 24, 2009
Secret Torture Tapes Have Been Revealed
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ABC news has some new video showing how a royal family member was torturing a business man who supposedly stole from him $5,000. Even having uniformed officers help him.
View the video here and comment on what you think.
Saam @ April 23, 2009
Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism
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Here is the translation of President Ahmadinejad’s speech at U.N. Conference. There is a link to watch the full video as well.
moe @ April 23, 2009