Cf. UPI:The 4-3 decision [by the Colorado Supreme Court] reversed Felix Montes-Rodriguez's conviction for using the Social Security number of a woman he didn't know ( Read more... )

Cf. Science magazine online. They do not waste water on their fur. They found that, as opposed to dogs, cats rest the tips of their tongues on the liquid's surface without penetrating it. The water sticks to the cat's tongue and is pulled upward as the cat draws its tongue into its mouth. When the cat closes its mouth, it breaks the liquid column ( Read more... )

In translation from Latin. The credibility of modern citations on herbal medicine (even from Medline) is so awful that primary sources don't outdate that fast.

• Yes, unfortified white bread has been malnourishing Germans for at least nine centuries (composition date of the Latin original is ~1150 AD/CE). The diatribe on "wheat flour without bran" ( Read more... )

Tony Hayward, BP CEO who got in the bind of testifying in a venue (in front of the U.S. Congress) where any accurate answers at all would have been lawsuit fuel for the U.S. Department of Justice, superficially went AWOL from the World National Oil Companies Congress in London Tuesday, June 22 2010 ( Read more... )

Now that the U.S. Congress actually is double-minded about controlling the deficit, those rates proposed as a price inflation inflation fix in 1990 suddenly don't look as bad. (The preaching of Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan is taking hold -- "Want to make the U.S. a Grecian disaster?". This isn't a fair comparison.) Claims are now being ( Read more... )

Ironically, the easiest to locate detailed reporting is from AOL-branded news.
Indeed. Whole Foods, through its Local Producer Loan Program, issued a low-interest loan to local producer Townshend's Tea to specifically support the expansion of its line of Brew Dr. Kombucha ( Read more... )

Or perhaps it was the strong-arming by the Republican leadership into not re-running for office in Nov. 2010.

So, having killed a U.S.$10 billion bipartisan funding extension, passed by the House, where the cashflow was needed March 1 2010 to prevent various shutdowns:

• 21% slash in Medicare payments to doctors: Make that a total freeze on Medicare ( Read more... )

"You're obviously a plant rights activist. The tomato plant left no living will, and you are rendering heroic measures to keep it alive."
The hard freeze on the night of the 26th/27th didn't quite kill off the trio of tomato plants; there are some healthy leaves remaining ( Read more... )

I doubt the censors were sent in because of the deleterious effects on U.S. politics:President Obama spent the second day of his state visit to China in the capital Monday, and the government adopted a two-track policy toward Obama memorabilia for sale here: Obama dressed as Superman was in, and Obama dressed as a Red Guard was out ( Read more... )

Of course, satellite coverage is so recent that we have no reasonable historical baseline for how long it takes for an iceberg to reach Macquarie Island:
Australian Antarctic Division researchers working on Macquarie Island, about 930 miles southeast of Tasmania, first saw the iceberg last Thursday [November 5, 2009] about 5 miles off the northwest ( Read more... )