by Russell Cole
What is more dangerous to passenger airplanes, human breastmilk or Dell laptop computers?
It is a good thing that the security measures safeguarding passengers of jet airplanes against threats that are conceived on an ad hoc basis, only after they are learned from the intending terrorists themselves, are finally being implemented.
It is only [...]
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Monday June 26, 2006
The Guardian
Drug companies are accused today of endangering public health through widescale marketing malpractices, ranging from covertly attempting to persuade consumers that they are ill to bribing doctors and misrepresenting the results of safety and efficacy tests on their products.
In a report that charts the scale of illicit practices [...]
Something we can Coalesce our Recollections around in order to create the Shared Sense of History necessary for a Collective Cause to take shape in the Present
1776 LIBERTY FLAG
Per Library of Congress: “Fort Moultrie Flag, rectangular, a royal blue field with a crescent moon in the ‘north west’ quadrant & capitol block letters L I [...]
An Article by Ben Tanosborn
This last junket by Bush may have been considered a tour de force for US relations with Latin America, but it wasn’t much of a tour and definitely provided no feat; in fact, it was a total waste. Uruguay’s and Brazil’s heads of state, both in the opposite side of the [...]
I have been a member of an organization for several months now, which operates on a national basis and performs the task of assessing the accuracy of journalistic content delivered over sources of mass media, such as newspapers, television, and radio, called Media Matters, which can be found at the following URI:
http://mediamatters.org/
I suppose this organization [...]
I found this icon, which, apparently, is intended to be an identifier of sites that conform to the new Acid2 Test protocol, which is a best practices initiative geared toward standardizing the way webpages are rendered by Internet browsers. Although the development of the Acid2 Test is of little interest to most people, I [...]
Is the US a nation of laws, of conscience, or of a new manifest destiny?
An Article by:
Ben Tanosborn
Some Americans will proudly and faithfully proclaim that the United States is a nation of laws, of conscience and also of a divinely granted manifest destiny. At times, in my politically pessimist days, I grow afraid that it [...]
Although we submit to such processes often without hesitation, we must come to terms with the fact that our willing participation in the research designs executed by those in the behavioral sciences is tantamount to our acquiesence to the engineering intended to modify our own existences by those who purport to practice science upon the behaviors of people.
An Article by:
Ben Tanosborn
Nothing seems to have changed under the Capitol�s dome. Last November�s election results, although producing a small majority for Democrats in the House � but leaving the Senate at the merci of a hawkish Likudian, Joe Lieberman � were not a mandate to institute change; maybe some light investigative opportunities to keep [...]
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By Steve Hammons
The two recent films on the World War II battle for Iwo Jima and the war in the Pacific reminded us of that terrible conflict and looked at two sides of the battle.
In FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS director Clint Eastwood and producers Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz explored the Iwo Jima [...]
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