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Last year I killed a man

Health & Fitness – At 9.45am on Saturday, June 23 2007, I killed a man

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Voted for on July 20, 2008 12:51am

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Acceptance of Gay People in Military Grows Dramatically

Gay & Lesbian – 75% of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll said gay people who are open about their sexual orientation should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, up from 62 percent in early 2001 and 44 percent in 1993.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 02:44pm

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Moonies chief 'hurt in air crash'

News – The founder of the controversial Moonies religious movement, Sun Myung Moon, has been hurt in a helicopter crash in South Korea, reports say.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 11:32am

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Infectious Exuberance

Money – Bubbles are a lot like epidemics. Every disease has a transmission rate (the rate at which it spreads from person to person) and a removal rate (the rate at which those individuals recover from or succumb to the illness and so are no longer contagious). If the transmission rate exceeds the removal rate by a certain amount, an epidemic begins.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 09:09am

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Phil Gramm: Master of Disaster (capitalism)

News – Gramm says government regulation of the economy is "akin to communism", and must be destroyed. He championed and pushed through the law that exempted Enron from both government regulation and public disclosure, on the grounds these were "unacceptable fetters on the free market".

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 08:37am

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BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers?

Women – The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 07:53am

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Prim and proper for fall fashion

Women – One glance at the autumn catwalks and the message is clear - the cleavage is dead. Clare Coulson looks for the inspiration behind the high neckline's renaissance

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 07:52am

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McCain Attended Zero Hearings on Afghanistan

Politics – McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 07:43am

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GOP whistleblower names Karl Rove in Ohio's 04 election theft

Politics – "[W]e anticipate Mr. Rove will be identified as having engaged in a corrupt, ongoing pattern of corrupt activities specifically affecting the situation here in Ohio."

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 07:37am

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McCain adviser Gramm leaves campaign

Politics – NEW YORK - Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, said Friday he is resigning from the role as campaign co-chairman after his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" who constantly complain about the state of the economy.

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Voted for on July 19, 2008 01:03am

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How bad was J.M. Barrie?

Books – An obsessive stalker, an impotent husband, a lover of young boys... to some, the creator of 'Peter Pan' was an evil genius; to others, a misunderstood ingenue. Ever mindful of the J.M. Barrie 'curse', Justine Picardie investigates

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Voted for on July 18, 2008 11:23am

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Don't Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid

News – We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.

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Voted for on July 18, 2008 09:11am

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Doctors Who Don't Take Insurance: What Does It Mean for Patients?

Health & Fitness – More and more doctors are fed up with private insurers. It's not just a question of how stingy they are, but how difficult it is to get reimbursed. Paperwork, phone calls, insurers who play games by deliberately making reimbursement forms difficult to interpret. Some physicians have just said "no" to insurers.

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Voted for on July 18, 2008 09:09am

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Going bi-coastal

Money – Los Angeles is a city of vast wealth and cultural influence, but relatively little corporate power.

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Voted for on July 18, 2008 08:45am

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Fitzgerald says Rove was trying to fire him during CIA leak probe

News – Patrick Fitzgerald confirms what we've always suspected: Karl Rove was trying to have Patrick Fitzgerald fired while Fitzgerald was still investigating Rove for his role in leaking Valerie Wilson's identity--and the timing lines up perfectly with the Administration's efforts to fire a bunch of US Attorneys.

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Voted for on July 18, 2008 08:18am

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