Movie Review: 'Food, Inc.' --- *** 1/2 - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:45 AM EDT (delcotimes.com)

The next time you tuck into a nice T-bone, reflect that it probably came from a cow that spent much of its life standing in manure reaching above its ankles. That's true even if you're eating it at a pricy steakhouse. Most of the beef in America comes from four suppliers.

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Obama Finanical Proposal Contains Sub-Prime Loan Shocker - HUMAN EVENTS

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:33 AM EDT (humanevents.com)

Along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the very epicenter of the financial meltdown last year, the CRA is one of the vehicles used to inveigle, incent or threaten banks into lowering their lending standards to provide home loans to those who simply cannot afford them.

business, discrimination, regulation, cra, foreclosure, mortage, home-loan

CTV British Columbia- PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:19 AM EDT (CTV News)

The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.

white-house, politics, interview, fly, obama, cnbc, peta, swat, humane, john-harwood

Google vows to protect privacy after camera exposes nude man - The Globe and Mail

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:05 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

The pledge from the head of Google Canada to have extra staff on hand should be welcome news to Robert White, who has been fretting about unwanted exposure since April.

google, technology, privacy, internet, camera, street-view

Young Iraqi gays find safe haven in Turkey | Lifestyle | Reuters

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (Reuters)

Homosexuality is banned almost everywhere in the Middle East, but conditions for gays and lesbians in Iraq have become particularly dangerous since the rise of religious militias after U.S.-led forces removed Saddam Hussein six years ago.

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South Carolina GOPer Apologizes For Racist Joke About Michelle Obama | TPMDC

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:47 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Rusty DePass, a prominent South Carolina Republican activist and former state elections director, has now made an abject apology for having joked on his Facebook page that an escaped gorilla from a local zoo was an ancestor of First Lady Michelle Obama.

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Japanese Machine Turns Office Waste Into Toilet Paper - Earth911.com

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:25 AM EDT (earth911.com)

A Tokyo-based company called Nakabayashi has released new machinery that will turn paper waste into toilet paper.

technology, japan, office, toilet, ecology, invention, recycle

Girl survives rude emoticon, becomes texting queen | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:13 AM EDT (CNET.com)

About 250,000 people entered the LG National Texting Championship, which concluded Tuesday. The winner, you will find it difficult to accept, was a 15-year-old girl. Her name is Kate Moore. She is from Iowa.

technology, iowa, cell-phone, texting, tweens, emoticon

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years | LiveScience

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:47 AM EDT (Live Science)

After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets. Should we be messing around with these kinds of things?

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