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Down 36 Students, College Will Lose 40 Jobs :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:30 GMT

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Teachers disciplined for Facebook postings, Charlotte Observer (Nov. 12, 2008)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:28 GMT

Some stories about people who got fired, suspended, or reprimanded in Charlotte for posting ill-advised material (including complaining about their students) on Facebook.
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Mayo Clinic - Modest Gain in Visceral Fat Causes Dysfunction of Blood Vessel Lining In Lean Healthy Humans; Shedding Weight Restores Vessel Health

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:29 GMT

Very, very bad news for porkers like me. Even "modest" weight gain (nine pounds) taking the form of increased visceral fat ("organ" fat in the abdomen, not subcutaneous fat) is closely linked to significant loss of arterial function. The good news is that it's reversible -- on losing the weight again, arterial function returns to normal.
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RDPulpit: Rahm Emanuel is no Reason for Celebration | Election 2008 | ReligionDispatches

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:28 GMT

Michael Lerner on Obama's pick for chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel. He is not pleased.
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Financial Storm Hits Gulf - WSJ.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:26 GMT

The Kuwaiti central bank puts together a bailout package for one of that country's biggest financial institutions, and in Abu Dhabi, real estate prices have suddenly begun to soften. The article names widespread, heavily-leveraged currency trades as the p
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Financial Meltdown Worsens Food Crisis - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:26 GMT

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John Gray: A shattering moment in America's fall from power | Comment is free | The Observer

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:22 GMT

Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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Fake pollsters' scare tactics target Obama | World news | The Guardian

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:44 GMT

Anti-Obama push-polling starts to appear in Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere in the U.S., including questions like, "Would you be less likely to vote for Obama if you knew he were supported by Hamas?"
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Pew Global Attitudes Project: Overview: Unfavorable Views of Jews and Muslims on the Increase in Europe

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:20 GMT

Bad news on the prejudice front from Europe. Across the continent, unfavorable perceptions of Jews are increasing; attitudes towards Muslims are worsening as well, although not as consistently. Most of those admitting prejudice are over fifty and less edu
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Clipmark: Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:43 GMT

Interview with Bobby Kennedy, Jr., on various allegations of vote-suppression schemes. My first instinct on reading this is to think, "conspiracy nut." But it's not actually as far-fetched as one would like to think.
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Internal DHS Documents Detail Expansion of Power to Read and Copy Travelers' Papers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:20 GMT

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fpress%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F23
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Terence McNally, Susan Jacoby, "How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America," Alternet, August 15, 2008

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:13 GMT

Basically follows the precedent set by Hofstadter.
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:: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and 'Rise of Slime' ::

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:11 GMT

Jeremy Jackson talks about the "rise of slime" in the world's oceans -- toxic bacteria, jellyfish, algal blooms, et cetera.
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:11 GMT

As we dump more and more nitrogen and CO2 into the oceans, conditions of eutrophia and hypoxia develop. The resulting enormous algal blooms kill coral reefs and starve fish. This is the "rise of slime," as one scientist puts it.
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The Columbus Dispatch : Where's Dad?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:03 GMT

As of 2006, the proportion of babies born to women 30 and under who are born out of wedlock rose to just over half.
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The return of COINTELPRO: spying on dissenters in the name of freedom

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:21 GMT

A truly creepy story. An anti-death-penalty activist (and sportswriter) describes how his group was infiltrated by an undercover agent who described members as "anarchist" and "socialist," even after it was obvious that the group was engaging in no dangerous or illegal activities.
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"Fusion centers": another step on the road to the "total surveillance society"

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:21 GMT

A "fusion center" is a domestic intelligence-gathering facility which involves police, federal agencies, the military, and in some cases also private contractors in gathering as much data as possible about people suspected of undefined "illicit activity." No chance of abuse there, of course. None.
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Bob Herbert - Madness and Shame - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:57 GMT

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Watch your back, the "seed police" are on patrol

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:14 GMT

On Monsanto's private security force and its anti-farmer tactics.
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China inspired interrogations at Guantánamo - International Herald Tribune

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:55 GMT

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Suicide bomber attacks Indian Embassy in Kabul

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:12 GMT

If India is drawn into direct or proxy conflict with the Taliban (and by extension Pakistan's ISI), the results could be very explosive.
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Food allergies as a weapon for school bullies

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:11 GMT

A very disturbing story -- some school bullies have been using peanut butter as a weapon to terrorize peanut-allergic kids. Consequences are potentially fatal. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5Z2UxH0lU . Story also uses the word "consequating," new o
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Dan Froomkin - General Accuses WH of War Crimes - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:53 GMT

Notes on retired Gen. Taguba's preface to the recent Physicians for Human Rights report on detainee torture.
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Rising jellyfish populations indicate disturbed marine ecosystems

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:09 GMT

As worldwide fish populations collapse, jellyfish numbers have grown to take their place. Experts worry that once the new situation is established, it will be very difficult to reverse the changes.
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The Obama "White" House? -- button spotted at Texas GOP convention

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:08 GMT

Speaks for itself, if it's genuine.
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Commodity speculation and the cost of living

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:08 GMT

As high-tech stocks and real-estate investments have started to look less promising, financial speculators have turned to commodities. This is why energy and food prices have shot up so dramatically around the world.
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Food rationing at large U.S. retailers

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:01 GMT

Some major national retail chains have begin instituting purchasing caps for bulk rice and grains.
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You might want to start stockpiling food, says WSJ

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:44:02 GMT

Food prices are going up faster than any of your investments are gaining value... so you might want to invest in, say, rice, or dried pasta. "Wheat prices have roughly tripled in the last three years."
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Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:36 GMT

The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a ...
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Google Health, HIPAA, and privacy

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:41:12 GMT

A short post from Profy.com reminding us that Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are not covered by HIPAA privacy regulations. Sure, they have strict privacy policies, but -- as the post asks -- what about the first time an insurance company subpoena
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School-lunch beef supplier found violating health regs

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:41:15 GMT

Nasty news about the U.S. beef business. Animal rights activists find employees of a major California operation forcing "downer" cows into the slaughterhouse, sometimes using a forklift to transport cows too sick to walk. 143 million pounds of meat are re
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Did you know: half of all U.S. teachers quit within five years?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:41:17 GMT

I didn't know this, but it doesn't surprise me. Citing salaries too low to repay student loans (needed to get the master's degrees now required in many jurisdictions), as well as hostile working conditions, the average teacher quits 2 1/2 years after star
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Telegraph | Money | US 'could be going bankrupt'

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:14 GMT

Exceedingly pessimistic projections from an official at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Quite scary. Not that most of us haven't heard this kind of thing before... US 'could be going bankrupt' By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor (Filed: 14
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Why Huckabee scares me: "We need to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards"

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:41:23 GMT

Yesterday in Michigan: "What we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards..." Someone explain to me how this is not Christian Reconstructionism.
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With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:02:46 GMT

A very detailed and well put together article on Facebook.
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Global Warming 'Past the Point of No Return'

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:54 GMT

We are in serious trouble folks
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How to Prepare for One Really Quick Getaway - New York Times

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:51 GMT

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CBC News: Civil war forecast in Iraq

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:49 GMT

Head of Arab League says that Iraq is on the verge of total breakdown and civil war, and that people are "playing games ... there is no clear leadership."
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CBC News: Civil war forecast in Iraq

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:49 GMT

Head of Arab League says that Iraq is on the verge of total breakdown and civil war, and that people are "playing games ... there is no clear leadership."
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Week of Milestones Fails to Reassure Frustrated Iraqis

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:47 GMT

Reports from the street in Iraq suggest that citizens are underwhelmed by the U.S. rhetoric about "democracy," since they can't get the necessities of daily life and still have to deal with violence and chaos daily.
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Andrew Moroz's Blog: Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much (**)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:46 GMT

Americans don't know anything about science. One in five believe that the earth revolves around the sun. Yikes. Originally from the NYT (URL, no longer functioning: www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html)
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Emergency Go Bag

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:47 GMT

How to make a go bag for emergencies
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American Red Cross

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:45 GMT

Like the more laid-back NYT article. This one has more specific instructions for what to do when instructed to "shelter-in-place" and what kinds of supplies you'll need to have on hand. A little freaky.
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TomDispatch - Tomgram: Nick Turse, Rummy Dropped from the Loop?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:43 GMT

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:43 GMT

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RollingStone.com: The Long Emergency : Politics

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:39 GMT

James Howard Kunstler, anti-sprawl activist, on the likely future on the other side of the oil-production peak. It's not pretty - not pretty at all.
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LSU AgCenter . Formosan Subterranean Termites Portal

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:28 GMT

Regarding the dangers of spreading a particularly nasty strain of termite via cheap Louisiana mulch.
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Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > Iraq through the prism of Vietnam

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:28 GMT

Retired Gen. William Odom, head of the NSA in the 80s and former head intelligence officer for the Army, on the striking similarities between the Iraq situation and Vietnam.
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Orion > Orion Magazine > March | April 2006 > Mike Davis> Slum Ecology

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:26 GMT

The slumification of the whole wide world. Yuck.
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Orion > Current Wisdom > James Howard Kunstler

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:26 GMT

James Howard Kunstler's five-part video series (short - about 40 minutes total?) on how deep in the sh!t we already are. This guy is smart.
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