UPRISING: Racism and Human Rights Violations Will Not Be Tolerated in America

Brain Stimulation: Can Magnetic or Electrical Pulses Help You? -

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:16 PM EDT (US News & World Report)

Medicine has long gone straight to the master organ, the brain, in an attempt to heal various psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and movement disorders.

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Gay Rights - Change.org: Killing Gay People Should Not be a Video Game

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:58 PM EDT (gayrights.change.org)

Well, how's this for some Friday disturbia. A video game Web site in Georgia (the country, not the state) is hosting an online game where a hunter walks around a public park, trying to shoot and kill naked gay men who approach him.

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Iris queen's legacy will live on

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:55 PM EDT (The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman)

A beloved fixture in the Oklahoma gardening community passed away earlier this month. Loretta Aaron, who wrote hundreds of gardening columns for The Oklahoman, died July 12 at the age of 92. Though I never worked with Mrs.

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Rosen: Yes, they're socialists - The Denver Post#921374#921374#921374#921374#921374

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (The Denver Post)
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Mike Rosen is one of my favorite radio information gatherers. He splits no hairs. He states his position and does not veer right or left. He believes strongly and is not embarrassed to say so. He is honest in his remarks and is not afraid to take a stand. God love him.

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Gary Frago, California Councilman, Sent Racist Anti-Obama Jokes To Staff

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:32 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
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Yet another local official has gotten in hot water for sending around racist emails about the president. This time it's Gary Frago of Atwater, California.

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Hate crime conviction in transgender's killing

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:11 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Man guilty of manslaughter, not second-degree murder

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Sen. Babs Boxer's Arrogance Takes on Racial Overtones

Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:29 PM EDT (Breitbart.tv)
Seeded by Tom Bombadil (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

Senator Barbara Boxer, who recently caused controversy with her snide and patronizing comments to a Brigadier General, has now once more displayed her arrogance, this time with with racial overtones.

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Analysis: Jakarta blasts show hotel weaknesses

Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:30 AM EDT
By Chris Brummitt, Associated Press (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

Twin hotel suicide bombings in Indonesia on Friday exposed new security weaknesses in an industry increasingly in the cross-hairs of terrorists — and pointed to evolving tactics by the militants.

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Clarification: Secret memorial story

Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:44 PM EDT
By Associated Press (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

In a July 13 story, The Associated Press described Shulamit Kishak-Cohen, who helped smuggle Jews to Israel from Lebanon in the 1950s and was awarded a rare citation, as having carried on a romantic liaison with a French intelligence agent.

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Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate

Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:36 PM EDT
By David Crary, AP National Writer (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries — and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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Cancer patient fired for being atheist, lost insurance, now on medicaid and having to seek donations

Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:12 AM EDT
By Carloz (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

I came across the following article in yesterday's Examiner: Cancer patient fired from job for being an atheist, now needs financial help. It is a brief update on a story that apparently began in May, when Amanda Dawson was allegedly fired by her Christian employer for being an a …

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Scrub tech causes major hepatitis scare in Colo.

Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
By P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

Kimberly Spencer's 9-year-old son went to Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center last month for what was supposed to be a routine surgery. The rambunctious child stuck a BB in his ear and doctors had to operate to remove it.

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Federal Web sites hit hard by cyber attacks

Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:58 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

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A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory

Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (io9)
Seeded by Idon'tknow (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer.

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Internet plays key role in China's latest unrest

Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:58 PM EDT
By Alexa Olesen, Associated Press (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

The brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in southern China was scarcely covered by state media, but accounts and photos spread quickly via the Internet and became a spark that helped ignite deadly riots thousands of miles away in the Uighur homeland.

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Update: Ivy Search

Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:37 AM EDT
By Aine MacDermot (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

Just a short note... Those of you who use the Ivy Search to search Newsvine, please be advised that I had a major database crash and the URL has changed to: Please update your bookmarks. And thanks for using Ivy Search.

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Movie Buff: What are your THREE favourite all-time Action Epic?

Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:37 AM EDT
By Ms CYPRAH (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

I love epics, the type of fantasy escape film that draws huge panoramic strokes across the screen and literally takes your breath away.

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Uighur protesters march in DC to China's embassy

Mon Jul 6, 2009 5:22 PM EDT
By Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press (Clipped by Phoebe Morgan)

An exiled Uighur leader accused by China of inciting ethnic violence said Tuesday the Chinese government is responsible for the rising tensions.

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International Study Links 3 Genes To Melanoma

Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 4:37 PM EDT (Medical News Today)

A consortium of European and Australian scientists doing a genome-wide association study found three gene variants were strongly linked to melanoma risk: two of them had previously been linked to pigmentation, freckling and sun sensitivity, and one was a new discovery.

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People Sometimes Seek The Truth, But Most Prefer Like-Minded Views

Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 4:27 PM EDT (Medical News Today)

We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see or hear. New analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear.

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The Hindu : International : Leading light of leftist movement in Sri Lanka dead

Seeded on Mon Jul 6, 2009 4:14 PM EDT (hindu.com)

COLOMBO: A leading light of the early leftist movement in Ceylon and wife of S.C.C. Anthony Pillai, Dona Caroline Rupasinghe Gunawardena, passed away in Kosogama, on the outskirts of Colombo on Monday. She would have turned 101 on October 8.

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David Holtzman: Attacking Alzheimer's With a New Test for Amyloid Beta - US News and World Report

Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 5:50 PM EDT (US News & World Report)

Neuroscientist David Holtzman was captivated by Alzheimer's disease as a medical student. Now the 47-year-old associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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Embryonic Stem Cells�and Other Stem Cells�Promise to Advance Treatments - US News and World Report

Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 5:38 PM EDT (US News & World Report)

For Thomas Clegg, the Obama administration's decision in March to lift certain restrictions on government funding of stem cell research was beside the point.

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Reminder to count your blessings. | ...Of Interest

Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 5:28 PM EDT (The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman)

My daughter turned 15 two weeks ago. She's been in California visiting her grandparents all month but came home yesterday, finally. I hear so many horror stories about teenagers — how disrespectful, disobedient and disengaged they are.

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