One of the headlines on Drudge reads: CNN’s Gupta steps in for fleeing doctors… The actual headline at CNN says: Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims, but the URL says “haiti.abandoned.patients”. From the story Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field [...]

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It’s a sad story heard many times over.  This particular story appeared in the ‘Daily Press,’ located in San Bernardino County, California.  In this case, the dog was the family pet and the victim was only three years old.  Father and son were in the backyard, when the father decided to go into the house for [...]

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While watching the surprisingly riveting war drama The Hurt Locker, a superb film that has (deservedly) earned much critical praise – including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture (Drama) and a Best Director nomination for Kathryn Bigelow – I found myself struck not only by the intensity of the film’s visual landscapes, but by [...]

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This movie, with some moderately well-known actors in the cast, never seems to have had a general release before going to DVD. As such, and strictly speaking, it is not about the Donner Party itself, trapped high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains over the winter of 1847-47. The plot really focuses on an element of [...]

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This is the Martin Luther king, Jr. weekend. I finally heard someone on TV mention his name a few hours ago — Obama giving a speech/sermon at a church in the Capitol. What most people forget is that King’s popularity was declining towards the end of his life as he moved on from desegregation to [...]

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I am sure everyone that reads the articles that I write remembers little Somer Thompson. She was only 7 years old and she was last seen on October 19, 2009. She was walking with her twin brother and her older sister on their way home from school. The story goes that the three siblings apparently [...]

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We all watched in shock and horror as CNN and the other news channels brought us live picture of Katrina and Ike building up toward landfall. Intrepid reporters clad in foul weather gear leaning at precarious angles to demonstrate just how powerful a 100mph wind was, the rain seemed to falling almost horizontal, debris falling [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert I have pretty tight controls over my network and access to my 510 usernames and passworded accounts. Yes he just said “510”…and counting. I have full administrative rights over every PC and nobody else has access to my home or office. So it came as a surprise to me when [...]

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My first memories were of West Hartford, Connecticut before we moved out to an outer suburb and built a house there. What I did not realize at the time was that there were neither Jews or African Americans living outside of Hartford and anywhere near us with one exception each — an African American couple [...]

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There is no sign of this study that I can find in any recent edition of PNAS so I assume that the report below is based on an excerpt from an August 2009 study. The research is psychologically naive. It purports to show that blondes are more prone to anger but the measures used seem [...]

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