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Billions over Baghdad: Politics & Power

Seeded on Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:23 AM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority.

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Oops! Lawmaker Shows Students Topless Gal.

Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 5:24 PM EDT (CBS News)

An Ohio state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.

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Patient's TB Is Less Severe Than Thought

Seeded on Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:20 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who caused an international health scare by flying on airplanes while infected with tuberculosis, has a less severe form of the disease than originally thought, doctors announced today at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, where he …

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Election Spawns New Hope for Tech

Seeded on Wed Nov 8, 2006 5:49 PM EST (Wired News)

With the possible exception of global warming, no tech-related issue is more volatile in Washington than the funding of stem-cell research, an ethical-moral-scientific dilemma that has sharply divided Congress.

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Xerox reveals transient documents

Seeded on Sat Sep 9, 2006 1:24 AM EDT (pcpro.co.uk)

Xerox has lifted the veil from some of its research and development work in the field of printing.

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Laughter proves medicine for scientists aggravated by science policies.

Seeded on Wed Sep 6, 2006 10:50 PM EDT (News at Nature)

US researchers have a new way to fight political interference in science: humour.

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The Ethics of Multi-Seeding

Wed Sep 6, 2006 8:13 PM EDT

I am but a young gardener of stories, and have recently found myself stymied by a unique question of ethics.

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Bush admits CIA has held terror suspects

Seeded on Wed Sep 6, 2006 5:11 PM EDT (Reuters)

President George W. Bush acknowledged on Wednesday the CIA has run a secret detention program for terrorism suspects overseas and said 14 of those held have been transferred to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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NTSB: Lexington controller had only 2 hours of sleep

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:56 AM EDT (CNN)

The lone air-traffic controller on duty at the time of a jet crash Sunday morning in Lexington, Kentucky, was working on only two hours of sleep, a National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman said Wednesday.

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Flushes and blushes over Bush speech

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:05 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

George Bush's speech marking the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was interrupted for CNN viewers when one of the network's presenters forgot a cardinal rule of broadcast journalism - turn your microphone off when you go to the toilet.

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In the event of an emergency...store blueprints on the moon

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:04 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

On 21 July 1969, we made one giant leap. Man walked on the moon, and, as one, America and the world rejoiced.

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AT&T: Hackers Took Credit Card Info - Forbes.com

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:12 AM EDT (Forbes)

Hackers illegally accessed a computer system and stole credit card information and other personal data from thousands of customers who purchased DSL equipment from an AT&T online store, the company said Tuesday.

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ScienceDaily: Sunscreens Can Damage Skin, Researchers Find

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:40 AM EDT (Science Daily)

Are sunscreens always beneficial, or can they be detrimental to users? A research team led by UC Riverside chemists reports that unless people out in the sun apply sunscreen often, the sunscreen itself can become harmful to the skin.

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11,000 people flee homes as hot toxic mud engulfs villages and farmland

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:20 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Four villages and 19 factories have been submerged in a 240-hectare (600-acre) sea of mud in East Java that is growing up to 50,000 cubic metres a day in a major environmental disaster triggered during an oil exploration venture.

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