geographer47

Well, here goes. I'm a Boomer who has voted in every election, Presidential and midterm, since I was 21 - never a straight ticket. I've voted for my share of losers: some didn't win and others earned the title. I've been a geek since Sputnik, cut my teeth on Scientific American, read omnivorously. First love, physics; settled for business and economics; migrated to geography. Been around long enough to accumulate a mountain of trivia which I freely share.

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Tehran feels risk of US attack is 'very weak'

News – TEHRAN: Iran's top national security official, Ali Larijani, yesterday assessed as "very weak" the possibility of a pre-emptive US strike on his country's nuclear facilities.

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Mahmud Abbas: Time is right for Mideast peace

News – DAVOS: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni yesterday shared hopes for a revived Middle East peace process, with Abbas calling for talks to begin straight away.

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China to develop powerful carrier rockets of new generation

Science – China plans to develop nontoxic, pollution-free, high-performance, low-cost and powerful thrust carrier rockets of the new generation in the coming five years, according to a white paper released in October 2006.

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Russian FM: Deliveries of air defense systems to Iran legitimate

News – The Russian Tor-M1 air defense missile systems have been delivered to Iran in accordance with norms of the international law, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Friday.

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Pakistani Prime Minister: Pakistan welcomes strong, successful China

Money – Pakistan is "more than comfortable" to see China's economic rising, including its accumulation of foreign reserves, said Pakistani PM Shaukat Aziz. "That's a source of strength of the whole world."

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Groups Urge Court to Give E-mail Full Constitutional Protection

News – Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims th

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Romania's King Without a Throne Outlives Foes and Setbacks

News – KING MICHAEL I of the Romanians was sitting alone at his desk here, looking over some correspondence, when a visitor arrived. He had evidently been sitting there for some time because the sun had set and the room had dimmed to near darkness around him. His personal secretary, Oana Carbunescu, flipped on a light and he stirred.

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Top 10: 2007 Movies Filmed In Canada

Movies – Hollywood producers have long sought refuge in Toronto as a means of saving cash on productions that would have cost far more to shoot in the United States. Toronto has stood in for American cities in so many movies that it has been dubbed "Hollywood North."

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Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered, Archaeologists Say

Science – Archaeologists say they have unearthed Lupercale-the sacred cave where, according to legend, a she-wolf nursed the twin founders of Rome and where the city itself was born.

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YouTube - Bike Messengers Are on Crack

Popular Videos – Bike Messenger Race,in NYC, these guys are crazy.

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Teen Aims To Save His Minnesota Town

Do-It-Yourself – High school senior buys a grocery store to turn around Truman's fortunes.

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Underrated Fiction: The World As I Found It

Books – It's a 700-page novel about Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, but it's somehow funny, humane, and exciting, as well as brainy. Perhaps the book isn't more well-known because the subject matter puts people off, or maybe the publisher just didn't print enough copies for it to gather the cult following it deserves.

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Prince Charles on anti-global warming trip to US

Politics – British Prince Charles has left on a visit to the United States where he will highlight the government efforts to fight global warming. Charles and his wife Camilla took a British Airways flight for Philadelphia, with the couple and their staff using all the first class and some business class seats, the Press Association news agency said Frida

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Voted for on January 27, 2007 09:55am

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Photos: Taking DARPA to the Max

Science – All eyes were on Team Oshkosh's TerraMax in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge--a test of robotic engineering with a prize of $2 million--because of the military truck's sheer mass. DARPA officials decided to start it last in the competition, despite it qualifying for an early start, because they were concerned about the massive truck causing a bottlen

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Voted for on January 27, 2007 09:54am

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50% movie piracy from Canada

Do No Evil – As much as 50 per cent of the world's pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.

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