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- Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns! - Wired
Lightning guns have been reamed as one of Pentagon's silliest wastes of taxpayer money since the Iraq war began. Defense Department insiders blasted the things as " Rube Goldberg " contraptions that were " bullshit ," "C+ effort[s]," at best ...
- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor - The Independent
Ben Whishaw: "At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre" Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky ...
- Sanya Richards clinches Olympic berth (Miami Herald)
Sanya Richards has her eyes locked on a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. But that didn't prevent her from looking past the first step toward being best in the world, which was to confirm that she is best in the nation in the 400-meter sprint. Slicing through a headwind on the backstretch and gaining momentum with a tailwind on the homestretch, Richards won her race by three strides at the ...
- Gretchen Rubin: The Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 Years Ago. (HuffingtonPost)
While reading a biography of English writer Sydney Smith, Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths, I stumbled across this letter. In 1820, Smith wrote...
- Argentina's 'Loony Radio' threatened by hospital closure - Independent
Argentina's 'Loony Radio' threatened by hospital closureIndependent, UK - 9 hours agoThey read poetry, discuss sports, music and politics, interview guests or simply sing a song. And millions of Argentines tune in to Loony Radio each weekend ...
- Andrew O'Hagan asks if Barack Obama signals the return of hope (Guardian Unlimited)
An idea of the United States as idealistic and open has always captivated Andrew O'Hagan, even as America - with Britain in its wake - turned its back on decency. Does Barack Obama signal the return of hope?
- A trip to pesto paradise - Thecalifornian.com
When cookbook author and radio host Lynn Rossetto Kaspar writes about pesto in her new book, "The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper" (2008, Clarkson Potter, $35), a two-paragraph description of pesto morphs into culinary romance bordering on ...
- The Rockstar Who Would Save the World - The Santa Barbara Independent
The Rockstar Who Would Save the WorldThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 1 hour agoScheeter has worked extensively with her friend — and Jack’s wife — Kim Johnson, who developed the idea for All at Once with MusicMatters’s Martin. ...
- The POPS Sizzle "In the Heat of the Night" - Pasadena Now
Pasadena NowThe POPS Sizzle "In the Heat of the Night"Pasadena Now, CA - 3 hours agoBetween them they hold numerous national and regional poetry slam championships and have also participated in two highly visible national spoken word tours ...
- Editorial: Try for this kind of verse - Albany Democrat-Herald
With rare exceptions we don’t run poetry in the letters column or anywhere else in the paper. But for the entertainment value alone, maybe we should. I have been thinking about this since Paul Pritchard of Albany handed me a folder last month at ...
- Library hosts Summer Celebration - Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — South Georgia Regional Library hosts its Summer Celebration Saturday, highlighting the success of its Summer Reading Program. It will be fun and free, says Halley Little, the library’s community relations coordinator, continuing that ...
- At 94 year vintage, silver screen legend and singer Herb Jeffries is still living it up in Idyllwild (The Press-Enterprise)
There's a jewel in the hills of Idyllwild. In a place where creative minds and souls are drawn, one resident found the home he had been searching for.
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! - Indymedia Ireland
That's what I told some characters on webook.com who couldn't fathom what coprophagia meant. I am sure those schools teach it if these Bushes get degrees from them. What do you teach? Suicide? Pesticides? Coprophagia? Better tell your E-Nazis to stop ...
- Rhythm in His Hips, Technology on His Mind (New York Times)
Gilberto Gil?s set at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday was a deep fusion of pop and folk culture: he used lots of variations on samba and baião, two root elements of Brazilian popular music.
- Obama hails Madiba for changing lives of blacks (SABC News)
In a recorded message from US Democratic presidential candidate, Barak Obama, he thanked Madiba for his role in uplifting the lives of black people. Obama says he entered politics after hearing about Madiba's determination to liberate his people.
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