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Fat, Stupid, Impotent & Dangerous: The Future Without Green Chemistry

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted November 14, 2009 | Green

Read More: Bisphenol a, Chemical Exposure, Consumer Product Safety, Endocrine Disruptors, Green Chemistry, Homeland Security, Public Health

On Friday November 6, despite opposition from the chemical industry, the house passed a bill that would strengthen chemical plant security and require dangerous chemicals that could be used in terrorist attacks to be replaced by safer alternatives. The measure, said chemical industry lobbyists, explaining their objection to extending...

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Hijab For Sports: A New Radical Invention

Julia Moulden | Posted November 14, 2009 | Living

Read More: Careers, Hijab, Industrial Design, Julia Moulden, Montreal, New Radicals, Religion, Sport

When Elham Seyed Javad heard that five Muslim girls were ejected from a tae kwon do tournament in Montreal for wearing hijabs, she felt sick to her stomach. "I was in shock because I play a lot of sports myself - especially soccer - and to have to stop playing...

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What Would You Do For God? (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted November 13, 2009 | Living

Read More: Atheism, Ethics, God, Meditation, Netflix, Religion, Responsibility, Spirituality, Tara Stiles, The Atheism Tapes, Yoga

I've been hooked on Netflix streaming for the past few weeks. It's served me as a useful post-book revision wind down, but not so useful in granting a good night's sleep. I've plowed through loads of my queue and started exploring indie documentaries. My latest obsession is the BBC special,...

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Who You Are Makes A Difference

Anne Naylor | Posted November 13, 2009 | Living

Read More: Anne Naylor, Blaise Pascal, Caring, Connecting, E M Forster, Facebook, Human Spirit, Jimi Hendrix, Kahlil Gibran, Love, Relationships, Thanksgiving, The Giving Life, Twitter

As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life? And who are you to be making a difference in anyone's life?

Thanksgiving is...

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ONLINE HIT -- Manny "Philippines" Pacquiao

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted November 14, 2009 | Technology

Read More: Boxing, Facebook, Jav On Tech, Jimmy Kimmel, Manny Pacquiao, MGM Grand, Miguel Cotto, Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, Philippines, Time-Magazine-Manny-Pacquiao, Twitter, Youtube

Manny Pacquiao is the Philippines.

And on the social Web -- where the often overlooked Filipino diaspora gather on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube -- today is Manny Pacquio Day, when the 5-foot-6-inch boxer faces Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto for a welterweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Win...

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Secret trade negotiations on IPR rules are an abuse of power

James Love | Posted November 14, 2009 | Technology

Read More: Acta, Anti-Counterfeiting-Trade-Agreement, Lying, Palin-Abuse-Of-Power, Transparency, Ustr

Over the past several months, the Obama Administration has had a spirited internal debate over secrecy, in the context of a new trade agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights. So far, secrecy is winning.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the name of this agreement, even though...

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Radio's auto shows this weekend

Steve Parker | Posted November 14, 2009 | Business

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Nissan's all-new 2011 Leaf "pure...

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Lottery Winners & Lottery Losers. Don McNay interview on CBC

Don McNay | Posted November 14, 2009 | Business

This is a link to an interview I did with Mark Kelley on his prime time CBC show about the pitfalls that lottery winners and others who receive big money have to deal with.

My segment of the show starts at about the 47 minute mark and lasts for...

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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: A Half-Baked Take That Leaves a Good Story Untold

Alex Remington | Posted November 13, 2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Jennifer 8 Lee, Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

Jennifer 8. Lee's recent book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles is a bit like her subject matter: slightly enjoyable, but mostly bland, trite, and unworthy of the meal it evokes. The book is presented as an inquiry into the identity of Chinese food in America, but she unnecessarily mixes uninteresting passages...

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Arkansas' Rotnei Clarke Unselfishly Scores 51 Points

Eric Angevine | Posted November 13, 2009 | Sports

Read More: Alcorn State Braves, Arkansas Razorbacks, College Basketball, Ohio State Buckeyes, Rotnei Clarke

Earlier this week, we found out that the Arkansas Razorbacks would dress only nine players for their first game of the 2009-2010 season. Player suspensions are the culprit. So, you'd think it would be difficult to compete, even against Alcorn State. Turns out, they only needed two players. Sophomore guard...

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Dr. Bob's College Football Best Bet

Bob Stoll | Posted November 14, 2009 | Sports

Read More: College Football, Dr Bob Sports

You know that gambling has become more than accepted in America when the greatly respected Huffington Post sets up a blog for a sports handicapper.

I've been giving sports gambling advice professionally for 23 years, since my days majoring in statistics at UC Berkeley. I've had good success over the...

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The First Green Veterans Day

Carl Pope | Posted November 13, 2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Green Veterans Day, Military Families, Sierra Club, Veterans Day

Veterans Day had always been a day-off from environmentalism for me, but this year Veterans week was different. The Sierra Club was really, for the first time, a full participant -- a story that has been building slowly

Several years ago, the Sierra Club published a book by Jonathan Trouern-Trend, an...

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Suspicious trading before HP's $2.7 billion 3Com bid; SEC closed for holiday

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business

Read More: Derivatives, Galleon Group, Hewlett-Packard, Hp, Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Sec, Stock Options

Somebody get the SEC on the phone, stat! Oh wait, they were closed Wednesday for Veterans Day.

Suspicious activity in the options market for 3Com (COMS) raised concerns late Wednesday that news of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) $2.7 billion purchase of the networking company was leaked before...

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In a Congress of millionaires, Republican Anh Cao voted for poor New Orleans

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Anh Cao, Anh Joseph Cao, Congress, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Joseph Cao, Millionaires, New Orleans

The single House Republican who voted for the Democrats' health-care legislation is a first-term congressman from a strongly Democratic -- and very poor -- district comprising most of New Orleans. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao's vote is significant, not because it was politically motivated -- and it was -- but...

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Left, Right & Center: 9/11 Trials, Afghanistan, Asia, Job Summit, Fort Hood

Huff Radio | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, 9/11 Trials, Fort Hood Shootings, Jobs, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Unemployment

Should the trial of the 9/11 masterminds even take place? Why, asks Tony, when we have confessions and a desire for execution? Bob suggests that there's a little something called the rule of law and we should definitely abide by it, using it as an example of what's right about...

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Why Intel's $1.25 billion AMD deal may not get Andrew Cuomo off its back

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | Technology

Read More: Amd, Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, European Union, Ftc, Intel, New York Governor

Intel, the world's largest microchip maker, said Thursday it has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), its much smaller archrival, to settle an epic legal dispute with AMD that had its origins in the mid-'80s. Although Intel (INTC) itself admits the settlement doesn't require it...

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Going Rouge - An American Nightmare

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Going Rogue, Going Rouge, Going Rouge - An American Nightmare, Mike Wooten, OR Books, Palin Book, Palin Book Tour, Palin Satire, Troopergate, Walt Monegan

This article is adapted from Going Rouge: Sarah Palin--An American Nightmare, available only by direct order from OR Books.

The Ugly Irony of Sarah Palin's Book Title
by Jeanne Devon

Going Rogue. It's cute. It's sassy. It's mavericky. The title of Sarah Palin's memoir is designed to sell...

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Job of the Week: UC-Santa Cruz is hiring a Grateful Dead archivist

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Santa Cruz, The Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz, Wall Street

Hey, Wall Streeters: Fed up with your job trading now-worthless derivatives? Angry at The System for not recognizing systemic risk? Annoyed that your corporate Yankees box got yanked? Perhaps you should consider a career change. The University of California-Santa Cruz is looking for someone to fill what can truly be...

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Decision to try 9/11 detainees in New York provokes heated debate

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Chuck Schumer, Eric Holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama Bin Laden, President Obama, Twin Towers, World Trade Center

The decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) to prosecute self-proclaimed 9/11-mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York set off a major debate Friday over whether the move makes legal and practical sense.

Mohammed will face a jury trial in federal court in the Southern District of New...

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Obama Small Business Forum Could Create Loophole for Venture Capitalists

Lloyd Chapman | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business

Read More: American Small Business League, Asbl, Barack Obama, Kevin Baron, Middle Class, Small Business, Small Business Lending

On November 18, the Obama Administration will hold a small business forum to "determine what additional steps we can take to get credit flowing to small businesses that want to expand and create more jobs." As of the close of business on Friday, November 13, at 5 p.m. PST, the...

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