Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 07:55
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Are Whole Foods and Other Retailers Slowly Poisoning Their Employees?

Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, has been in the news quite a bit lately.

The chemical is widely recognized in the scientific and food safety communities as an endocrine disruptor and carcinogen. Unfortunately, BPA has been contaminating the foods of the American public via leeching from food containers for years, specifically from aluminum cans used for canned goods and soft drinks.

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  Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 00:46
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Limerick the News: Russian Spies

There once were some spies sent from Russia
Who were scouting for intel and captcha
But as folks online knew
In Soviet Russia, espionage commits YOU!
Ten spies were arrested. America, fuck yeah!

[Russian Spies]

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  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 04:12
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Google Trying to Maintain Their Search Service in China

Google is walking a file line with maintaining service in China since disputes over political censorship have strained their dialogue with the country's government.

A blog post today by Google reports that, although a simple redirect from the Google.cn homepage to Google.com.hk has worked well for most of the Chinese speaking userbase of the site, the Chinese government is none to pleased with the unfiltered results, and as a result may revoke Google's license to operate in the country.

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  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 07:06
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RentaFriend.com Offers Platonic Friendships For a Fee

RentaFriend.com is offering friend finding services online, but unlike a few other sites with similar names, these are friends without benefits.

Rent A Friend is geared towards successful friend finding sites in Japan and Asia that provide pay-for-friendship services. Hourly rates are negotiated on the site and generally range between $20-$50 an hour.

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  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 02:12
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Urban Prep Charter School Sees 100% College Bound Rate For First Graduates

Urban Prep Charter Academy is a different kind of school in Chicago. Founded in 2006 by Tim King, the school was meant from the start to put inner city youth into a better place: colleges.

The school has done exactly that. Out of 150 freshman who started in 2006, 95 lasted all four years at Urban Prep and another 12 students transferred in after freshman year.

The 107 seniors who make up the graduating class have achieved a remarkable 100% college acceptance rate.

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  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 01:15
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Feed Magazine's Archives Have Been Restored

Feed Magazine, one of the first online web magazines, has restored their full archives back onto their site after nine full years.

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  Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 00:35
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Secular Coalition of America Comes Out Against the Kagan Nomination

The Secular Coalition for America has come out against Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice, citing her lack of vigilance in guarding the separation of church and state.

They have outlined five specific instances to show Kagan does not have the same judicial philosophy of Justice Stevens, including one instance where they claim she appears to "directly rebuff the church-state jurisprudence of Justice Stevens."

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  Monday, June 28, 2010 - 23:41
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Twenty-Five Armed Men Attack and Burn Gaza Summer Camp

For the second time in a little over a month, a UN ran summer camp for children has been attacked and burned in central Gaza.

The raid time was very similar to a previous attack on May 23rd. Each time the camp was stormed by approximately twenty-five armed and masked men, the on-duty security guard was tied up, and equipment, tents and art supplies were burned. No one was injured in either attack.

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  Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 04:53
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Dick Cheney Hospitalized for Bi-Annual Heart Attack

Ex vice-president Dick Cheney is in the hospital today after experiencing "discomfort".

We're not actually aren't sure yet if it was an actual heart attack. If it was it would be his sixth.

Here is a ridiculous summary of Cheney's health issues.

1978: Cheney had his first heart attack, when he was 37. This led him to quit smoking.

1984: Had a second heart attack.

1988: Had a third heart attack, this resulted in quadrupole bypass surgery.

November, 2000: Had a fourth heart attack which led to coronary stinting surgery.

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  Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 13:51
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Houston Emergency Rooms Screening Every Adult for HIV

A pilot program in several Houston emergency rooms has found founds that approximately 1/100 people who are treated in the hospital are infected with HIV.

"Some of the people we have found to be HIV-positive, we absolutely know if that institution had been screening earlier that they would have been identified earlier," said Marlene McNeese-Ward, who leads the city health department's HIV prevention efforts.

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