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Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 08:31 pm
justspies posting in greatpoets: Mary Oliver.

The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 06:34 pm
cnn_top_rss: Teens charged in immigrant's fatal beating

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/346131442/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/25/immigrant.killing.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Read full story for latest details.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 05:52 pm
cnn_top_rss: Salmonella warning limited to Mexican peppers

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/346111926/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/25/fda.salmonella/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Only Mexican-grown jalapeños and serrano peppers have been linked to the salmonella outbreak, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 02:43 pm
motherjonesblog: Some Surprising New Findings on GIs, PTSD, and Crime

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/346073690/9116_sac-bee-on-gi-ptsd.html

A while back, I waxed all sympathetic about GIs getting what I assumed was all too needed special consideration for...

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: Wildfires May Briefly Slow Arctic Warming, Study Says

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-wildfires-arctic.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=39156882

The rapidly warming Arctic may be given a brief reprieve by North American wildfires, which lower surface air temperatures for weeks or months at a time.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: VIDEO: Dog Cloning Sparks Debate

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-clone-video-ap.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=20264396

A U.S. biotech company's auction fetched more than $135,000 each from four owners eager to clone their canines. Yet opponents say the technology is flawed.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: VIDEO: Rabbit Saves Couple From Fire

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-rabbit-video-ap.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=28862673

A Melbourne, Australia, couple's pet rabbit scratched at their bedroom door and woke them just before a fire raged through their house.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: VIDEO: Stuck Polar Bears Eating Birds

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-seabirds-video-wc.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=93797628

The guillemot, a seabird that depends on ice, is losing its habitat and falling prey to polar bears desperate for food. Part of Wild Chronicles' Climate Connections series.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 06:16 pm
jellomarx posting in politicsforum: Bob Novak

Fact: Bob Novak hit a Pedestrian, while driving, in Washington, D.C.

Fact: He was chased down by a Bicyclist who saw the incident.

Novak claims that he never saw the pedestrian.

The bicyclist describes the pedestrian as "sort of splayed into the windshield.” 

Novak once stated to the Washington Post, describing a jaywalker whom he had cursed at, "He was crossing on the red light. I really hate jaywalkers. I despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that." 

You be the jury, or if you feel that my presentation is biased (which it is) the Defense Attorney, does this man have any credibility left?

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 05:06 pm
cnn_top_rss: At least 4 dead in Lebanon clashes

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/346035358/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/25/lebanon.fighting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 05:32 pm
xplodingplastic posting in literaryquotes: from Orion's Glow, by Alejandro Rossi (translated by Alita Kelley)

No, she wasn't beautiful; you should never measure a man's love by his woman's beauty. We fall in love with a gesture, with a voice, with those things that tell us we've found a soul that runs parallel to our own. I used to wonder how she could be so attractive, since her nose was big. Now, I'd swear she was a woman without hidden doubts, one that would never ask you, if you follow, how to get a cork out of a bottle, but one who wouldn't worry either if your grandfather never said a word for three nights. A woman who never wonders if things might have been different. A woman for whom the greatest offence would have been for someone to put in doubt the happiness of her too brief nights with Francisco. She was neither a lapdog nor a pampered cat, Lorenzo, even if she had that age-old way of looking on men askance. Have I given you an idea of how extraordinarily intelligent she was? Photographs from those days are so conventional, they couldn't do her justice, they don't show her alertness, her tremendous capacity for enjoyment.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 01:32 am
motherjonesblog: Why Talula Does the Hula No More

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/346010339/9106_talula-does-the-hula.html

Apparently, people who live in New Zealand, and get pregnant, are crazy. From CNN: A New Zealand judge has made...

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 04:19 pm
cnn_top_rss: Police kill man at radio station

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/346001237/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/25/radio.station.shooting.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Read full story for latest details.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: Great White Shark Filmed Breaching at Night -- A First

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-sharkville.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=41588168

Unprecedented footage captures a great white shark off the coast of South Africa breaching the water's surface to snare a seal during nocturnal hunting.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:00 am
natlgeographic: Ultrasonic Frog Tunes Its Ears Like a Radio Dial

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-ultrasonic-frog.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/article_id.pl?id=82084783

The concave-eared torrent frog from China is the only known animal that can physically control which frequencies it hears using the biological equivalent of earmuffs, researchers say.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 01:06 pm
motherjonesblog: GI Jane Hell: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/345995007/9088_gi-jane-dont-ask-dont_tell.html

Here's why women are taking the brunt of the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy. From womensenews: Today, more than...

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 06:25 pm
cnn_top_rss: What McCain would do if he caught bin Laden

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/345976876/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/25/mccain.wolf/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Sen. John McCain says that as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial. "The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The Nuremberg Trials meted out justice to Nazi criminals after World War II.

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 01:05 pm
woodstockmajere posting in literaryquotes:

I wish a wild sea-fellow would come down the glittering shingle,
A soulless neckar, with winking seas in his eyes
And falling waves in his arms, and the lost soul's kiss
On his lips: I long to be soulless, I tingle
To touch the sea in the last surprise
Of fiery coldness, to be gone in a lost soul's bliss.

-"Tarantella" by D.H. Lawrence

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:24 pm
motherjonesblog: Cartoon: We're Number One!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/345970392/9122_cartoon-headzup-incarceration.html

Number one in lock ups, that is....

Fri, Jul. 25th, 2008, 12:20 pm
motherjonesblog: Video: When Your Mother Is Deported

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/345955929/9121_cca-immigrant-detention-mother.html

In a Texan business park named Export Plaza, the Corrections Corporation of America operates a complex of concrete buildings where...

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