Officials and biologists for several federal state and local agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Mote Marine Laboratory are currently observing a 30 foot Sperm whale off Florida’s west coast that maybe stranded. It was first spotted by a fisherman. For a while on Sunday, the whale, which is...
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Sara Jane Moore, 77, who tried to assassinate Former United States President Gerald Ford in 1975 was paroled from prison in California this afternoon. Moore tried to assassinate Ford outside of the St. Francis Hotel in downtown San Francisco on January 15, by firing one shot, which missed because a bystander grabbed Moore’s arms...
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A woman in Egypt has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. H5N1 has killed two other Egyptian women already this week, bringing the total dead of the virus in Egypt to 18. Fardous Mahammed Hadad was taken into hospital on Sunday after having difficulty breathing and developing a high fever, and subsequently...
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" is an issue which knows no bounds. It is neither the domain of conservatives or liberals, poor or wealthy, and pays no attention to ethnicity or sex. Our issues cross all demographics and our goals are shared, and should be supported, across all sectors of our society."
An announcement from Mike McCormick, Executive...
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Background: The recent New York Times piece A Bundle of Joy Isn’t Enough? (12/6/07) discusses "push presents":
"In a more innocent age, new mothers generally considered their babies to be the greatest gift imaginable. Today, they are likely to want some sort of tangible bonus as well....
"That’s 'push' as in, 'I the mother, having been through...
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MINORITY WOMEN, BREAST CANCER & HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY In 2002, the landmark Women’s Health Initiative Study reported that the long-term use of hormone replacement medications, consisting of two female hormones in pill form, was associated with a 26% increase in the relative risk of breast cancer (among other serious diseases as well, I might...
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This week the government of Moldova approved an awareness-raising strategy on Moldova’s integration into the European Union. The strategy was put forward by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, which argued that the people must be informed about the European integration. The draft strategy informs that at the moment Moldova does not...
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The electoral commission of Pakistan held a meeting today to decide whether the general election of the country will go ahead as planned next week on Saturday January 8, 2008. A firm decision is expected on Tuesday; however, according to CNN, Election Commission Secretary Kanwar Dilashad told The Associated Press that a recommendation has...
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AOL has decided to discontinue development of Netscape web browser which brought surfing the Internet to the masses, until its user base began to erode during the “browser wars” of the mid-1990s and resulted in the birth of Mozilla project. Tom Drapeau, the director of Netscape inside AOL announced on the Netscape blog that...
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Recently a feminist blog commenter who did not like my column Do Women Really Want a Male Birth Control Pill? (Newsday, 4/11/05), wrote the following:
" I think it's easier for a lot of men, like Sacks, to put the focus on women rather than admit that they really don't want any responsibility...
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I first encountered the story of Abishag as a child watching the BBC production of The Six Wives of Henry VIII. She was mentioned in the segment about Henry’s doomed fifth queen, Catherine Howard, who would eventually be executed for adultery, a crime that constituted treason in a queen. On the morning after her...
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