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Activist moves homeless into foreclosures - Life- msnbc.com
Marie Nadine Pierre and her baby, Nennon, are squatting in a foreclosured house in Florida. A Miami activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes. Rameau is an activist who has been ...
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
The terrorists who attacked various locations in southern Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks. Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one captured terrorist, suggest that ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter. In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31
Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals ...
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Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL (University College London) say this is because a key fifty year old theory about the ...
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Will India and other nations restrict access or "munge" maps (as the USSR did)? Never mind that tourist maps could just have well been used ... -
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008This is Computer World's gee-whiz summation of the report, whose primary link has already been posted by others to Twine ... for instance at http://www.twine.com/item/11ncnp5bs-p/global-trends-2025-a-transformed-world -
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Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Whoa Nellie! If this proves to be true (antioxidant aging improvement theory debunked!), how much money, research, and hope will have turned out to be wasted on antioxidants? How many pharma and health supplement companies that specialize in that "therapy" will suffer or even go under? -
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Swiss Voters Approve Legal Heroin Program, Program Allows Addicts To Receive Supervised Doses; Voters Also Uphold Marijuana Ban
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Wonder how much the cost of this program is in comparison to the cost of criminalization (addict deaths / family impacts, disease, prisons, international terrorism and crime subsidized by Afghan and other poppy area and heroin production, etc.)? Of course, the Swiss DO have and use nationally ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31