Month: July 2005

Darwin’s GMO OPEN THREAD

The GMO lobby is back, this time battling a “November ballot initiative to ban biotech crops” in California’s Sonoma County, reports PRWatch. As I typed this, this Q just hit me: Do GMO crops fit in with the...

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FBC Cafe – Humpday Edition

Happy Humpday Tribbers!  It’s a short workweek for many of us and I for one, definitely enjoy the concept of a wednesday that feels like a tuesday but is way closer to friday than tuesdays in general…...

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 59

image: Edward Roberts (L) and his wife Regina stand with the U.S. flag from the coffin of her daughter Lance Corporal Holly Charette of the U.S. Marine Corps as Charette was buried at the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery in...

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The Map of Death

[From the diaries by susanhu.] The Palm Beach Post has published an extremely useful and sad map – an interactive map unlike any other I’ve seen before. It is a map of death: military deaths in the wars on...

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Tuition Crisis Mega Diary

For the last few days, I have focused on the problems with college financing.  As with the health series I did a few weeks ago, education is a classic “kitchen-table” issue.  Education expenses do not have...

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