There is evidence not of a few tragic isolated problems, but of systemic neglect that is nearly crippling the U.S. veterans’ health system.
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The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be available free online by the end of the year. Once uploaded, it will represent one of the internet’s most important resources. By providing free access to course material such as lecture notes, assignment details, podcasts and videocasts, MIT’s Open CourseWare programme will transform the e-learning landscape.

MIT initiated the programme in 2001 and material from 1,550 MIT courses is already available.

Wearing a leather dress and a Christian cross around her neck, Coulter must be a liberal infiltrator whose purpose is to give conservatism a bad name. –Cliff Kincaid
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“We didn’t create the war in Iraq.” –White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.

Go to original by Max Blumenthal on Raw Story

When one informs a salesperson of the Internet price, customers have been shown the intranet site, which looks identical to the Internet site, but does not always show the lowest price.
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“The press will have a field day.” –Deborah J. Palfrey
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The “average” home electricity use quoted by TCPR is a national average that includes apartments and mobile homes. In Gore’s climatic zone, the East South Central, the average is much higher, thanks to hot, humid summers and cold winters. Within that zone, Gore’s usage is three (not 20) times average, and his per-square-foot usage is squarely average.

Go to original by David Roberts: Talking Points on the Gore Pseudo-Scandal

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Original, limited-edition, presidential-style black velvet portraiture of prominent Republicans painted on black velvet entirely by hand in Tijuana, Mexico.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use “no-knock” warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs.
Democratic Sen. Vincent Fort, a sponsor of the bill, said the case was a warning that it has become too easy to obtain “no-knock” warrants.
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Immigrants are less likely to go to prison than U.S.-born residents of the same ethnic group and they boost pay for natives, research says.
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Cheney Argues Rumsfeld Served Well

Go to original by Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Staff Writer

This image provided by Science shows light-toned layered rock in Becquerel Crater on Mars as photographed by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The orbiter images show alternating layers of dark- and light-toned rock within which are a series of fractures, surrounded by what researchers call “halos” of light-toned bedrock. These halos are believed to indicate where fluids, probably water, passed through the bedrock. The layers show cyclic changes in thickness, which may be due to annual climate cycles, a cyclic variability in the source of the sediment, or both. The blue areas are extensive fields of sand dunes.

Go to original in the San Francisco Examiner