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Deadly materials, including viruses turn up lost and forgotten at govt storage centers "http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/16/fda-update-on-vials-found-in-cold-storage-at-nih/12744543/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories I...

Will someone remind me why we kept this company alive? If they'd gone belly up, their market share would have been taken up by Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, almost all with cars manufactured in the US.

"According to a provocative new book by Ian Morris war is not merely a necessary evil, it is actively good for us. Mankind, he argues, is incapable of resolving conflicts peacefully: we have only evolved complex civilisations thanks to organised violence, and we only live in harmony because of...

From the NY Times: The Evil of the Outdoor Cat By RICHARD CONNIFF nyt MARCH 21, 2014 ONCE upon a time I had a cat named Lucky, and the name fit. She turned up on our doorstep as a stray and stayed with us for 10 years, until her rather gruesome demise. (More about that later.) I liked her...

The decline of the union movement in private enterprise continues. Of course, unions are still growing in the public sector. http://news.yahoo.com/union-vote-vw-plant-nears-end-obama-weighs-011005296--sector.html

From The Economist: IN “MAD MEN”, a series about the advertising industry in the 1960s, women are underpaid, sexually harassed and left with the kids while their husbands drunkenly philander. Sexual equality was a distant dream in those days. But when Don Draper, the show’s star, dumps the...

Started watching this. Interesting platform of a guy who has a chip implanted and can access the internet with his mind. Have to have "willing suspension of disbelief" at some of what goes on, but interesting nevertheless.

OK, I understand; if you talking about a possible military intervention, I get it. The hawk wants to go to war, the dove does not. But then there's this, from a news story by Reuters and the headline taken from the story by Yahoo News...

But you have to book first class. A Chinese guy would check in to the airport with a first class ticket, eat for free at the first class lounge, then change his ticket for the next day. Rinse, repeat. The airline became suspicious after 300 days, so, having been found out, he asked for, and...

In a new paper, Stephen Hawking denies the existence of black holes, from which nothing can escape the event horizon. He claims that it is inconsistent with Quantum Theory. But, but, but...the consensus among scientists is that black holes do exist. Well, I have no idea whether he is right or...

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Well, they have one in South Africa too, and Charles Schwarzel shows how to play it: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/golf/charl-schwarzel-steals-the-glory-from-louis-oosthuizen-20140113-30p9b.html

Here's one that lasted 3,000 years... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/06/newser-king-tut/4338499/

Signed by New England just 10 days before, it was noticeable that Brady targeted him twice on that incredible last drive (once on a must have fourth down). Brady has been plagued by receivers dropping the ball (see Dobson), and Collie has absolutely safe hands. I realize that Collie is probably...

Recent column: Amazon’s one-time chief financial officer, Joy Covey, who joined the $60 billion company in 1996 when its annual sales reached $16 million, tragically left us last week. Covey, like about 700 other Americans this past year, died in a bicycling accident. The passing of the former...

IIRC, last year FBG';s rated him as the #1 defensive back. Well, 73 solos, 13 assists, 10 PD, and 1 Int, didn't even make the top 40 in our league. Yet, here we go again, with him being the consensus #2 in FBG rankings. Are the FBG's dating his sister? Except for Jene. He's got him #7.

I have had a couple of leagues on Yahoo for 10 years. Loved them. Now some tech idiot in Bangladesh or Switzerland or the Congo, where they don't even play football, has changed the screen to black and it is unreadable.The worst thing is, you can't even find how to complain about it. Yahoo has...

Specifically, I am talking about high performers who may come back from injury. Players who could be there come playoff time. Percy Harvin comes to mind; so do Heath Miller and Dennis Pitta. Any others?

Robert Rich, in New York magazine talks about the corruption of our ruling elite. " You'd think that the market for Washington-bashing would be saturated by now. Not counting the nightly Comedy Central duo, four anti-Washington television shows were showered with Emmy nominations last month...

He says LeBron James could play QB in the NFL after he hangs it up in the NBA. There is no doubt LeBron is one of the most gifted and dominating athletes ever. But playing QB in the NFL is about a lot more than athleticism and smarts. It's about experience and practice...years of practice...