Atlanta, GA installed a green roof on its City Hall. Covering city buildings in vegetation – creating “green roofs” and walls – could substantially save energy by reducing the need for air conditioning on hot days, say researchers.
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Today in Moronia
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
- No such thing as ‘women and children first’ without threats of physical force
- When ‘stand your ground’ is black vs. white, the sentence is life in prison
Today’s News
Current events.
‘Green’ roofs could cool warming cities
Morgan Stanley fined $12.5 million for claiming that 9/11 destroyed e-mails
"Hiding behind the events of Sept. 11 to avoid litigation obligations is unseemly," said Steven Caruso, president of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association and a partner at the New York office of Maddox Hargett & Caruso PC. "This sets a new standard for how low a firm will go to take advantage of...
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Israel’s ‘Hot Babes in Bikinis’ campaign tempts tourists
"What we are trying to achieve is to show the world that Israel is not only conflict."
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Video: The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein
“Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible — and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord. That is the world that we are preparing, Winston.” –George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Limbaugh fakes ‘phony soldiers’ replay to defend himself
During the September 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to Media Matters for America’s documentation of his recent description of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as “phony soldiers,” Rush Limbaugh claimed that he had not been talking “about the anti-war movement generally,” but rather “about one soldier...
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