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• Study Suggests Possible Autism Pesticide Link

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:47 am

  Tags: Dr Mark Horton, Toxins, Pesticides, Autism Disorder, California Department Of Public Health, Environment

  size, that the California Department of Public Health which conducted the study is only characterizing the results as preliminary data indicating that there MAY be an association between the pesticides which were the subject of the study and incidents of autism.Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine pesticides

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• U.S. Attorney Firings

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Justice Department

  What does an unsolved murder have to do with the firing of a U.S. attorney? Quite possibly everything, writes Jeffrey Toobin....

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• Wiretapping and Fredo

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:14 am

  Tags: Justice Department

  The folks over at TPM have an interesting theory about Gonzales' testimony that's worth a read. TPM speculates that the AG's testimony on Tuesday was an attempt to parse language while shielding Congress and the public from the still unknown...

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• Jane Roe vs Jack McClellan

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:01 pm

  Tags: Health, General News, California Girl Love, Dateline To Catch Predator, Jack Mcclellan Blog, Jack Mcclellan Website, Jack Mclellan, Jane Roe Vs Jack Mcclellan, Mcclellan, Santa Monica Area, Santa Monica Police, Santa Monica Police Department

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• Michael Biserta Scandal

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:37 pm

  Tags: Celebrity Gossip, Beefcake, Calendar 2008, Department Calendar, Firefighter, Fireman, Guys Gone Wild, Hubby, Laura Jones, Michael Biserta, Michael Biserta Video, Mike Biserta, New York Fire Department, Statue Of Liberty, York Fire Department

  for the New York Fire Department and part of the New York Fire Department calendar 2008 edition. Now the fact that Michael Biserta is in the calendar is not the scandal as the New York Fire Department calendar 2008 is a publication by the New York Goverment. But it turns out it is not the first time that Michael Biserta has taken his shirt

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• How a DENR ‘midnight deal’ was forged

  Published: August 5, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: Environment Watch, Congress Watch, Governance, In The News, Ambient Air Network Project, Angelo Reyes, Department Of Environment Natural Resources, Edcel Lagman, Emissions Technology Inc, Kalikasan

  Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo T. Reyes will surely be hounded by his alleged “midnight approval” of the $1.3-million full payment to the Emissions Technology Incorporated (ETI) for the Ambient Air Network Project. But he will not be alone. Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman may find himself similarly

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• ‘An onerous Austrian legacy’

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Pcij Image Galleries, Public Health, In The News, Austrian Government, Clean Air Act, Department Of Health, Hoval Incinerators, Philippines, Vamed Engineering

  1995, the Department of Health, through a P504-million loan extended by Bank Austria, acquired 26 incinerators to help improve the management of medical waste in its controlled hospitals in the country. The medical waste incinerators, touted as “state-of-the-art” technology, were manufactured by Liechtenstein-based Hoval and were

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• Filipinos paying P90M a year for junked hospital waste incinerators

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Public Health, Governance, Science Technology, In The News, Austrian Government, Bank Austria, Clean Air Act, Department Of Health, Hoval Incinerators, Philippines, Vamed Engineering

  REMEMBER the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant? As the biggest power generation project ever undertaken in Philippine history during the time of Marcos, the nuclear plant occupying a 370-hectare complex in Morong, Bataan remains the country’s biggest white elephant. Built at an original cost of US$1.109 billion by Westinghouse through a loan from

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• At the Heart of the Matter

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:40 am

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Justice Department

  investigation of the Justice Department as a partisan witch hunt.  All you have to do is ignore a couple of centuries of carefully constructed barriers that protected the department from executive interference -- barriers which the Bush administration quickly and systematically dismantled. Today's New York Times editorial reminds us that

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• 'ICED' Seeks To Show How Immigration Laws May Increase Crime

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:22 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Burgeoning, Computer Science Student, Current Society, Department Of Homeland, Department Of Homeland Security, Electoral College, Empathy, Game, Genre, Immigrants In The United States, Immigration System, Indian Girl, Israeli Conflict, Japanese Computer

  es-say she wrote on the Department of Homeland Security. These are two of the characters in ICED!” — a new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the U.S. immigration system. It is part of a burgeoning genre of video games that examine major social and policy issues such as the

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• Homeland Security's latest non-lethal weapon: the pukelight

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Department Of Homeland Security, Departmentofhomelandsecurity, Dhs, Flashlight, Homeland Security, Homelandsecurity, Intelligent Optical Systems, Intelligentopticalsystems, Led Flashlight, Ledflashlight, Pukelight

  Homeland Security's R&D department must have a sense of humor, because the agency is hoping to soon deploy an LED flashlight that causes uncontrollable vomiting. The light, which is being developed for DHS at Intelligent Optical Systems, first shines a high-intensity beam to stun the target and then begins flashing a series of pulses that

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• Children For Sex In Cambodia

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: General News, Beautiful Little Girls, Child Sex Trafficking, Department Of Homeland Security, International Justice, Msnbc, Pedophile, Sex Slaves, Sex Children, To Catch Predator

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• Our Crumbling Nation Dept.: Parking Garage Tragedy Claims the Lives of Four Cars

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:10 pm

  Tags: Accidents, Our Crumbling Nation Dept, State Department

  Not only are bridges across the nation crumbling, but now our government buildings are collapsing in the middle of the day. The courtyard of Columbia Plaza leads to the State Department’s SA-1...

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• Our Crumbling Nation Dept.: Parking Garage Tragedy Claims the Lives of Four Cars

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:10 pm

  Tags: Accidents, Our Crumbling Nation Dept, State Department

  Metropolitan Police and Fire Department responded and cordoned off the area until structural inspectors could evaluate the hazards. The entire lower plaza area has been secured while repairs are in progress. Department employees consequently cannot use the 2nd floor (ground level) entrance into SA-1 and must enter instead through the 3rd

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• College teams compete for eco-dominance in the Solar Decathlon

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Competition, Department Of Energy, Departmentofenergy, Off The Grid, Offthegrid, Self Sustaining, Solar Decathlon, Solar Power, Solardecathlon, Solarpower

  in Washington D.C. for the Department of Energy's 2007 Solar Decathlon. To build the houses, students are limited to currently available, off-the-shelf technologies, and must also focus on design, comfort, and market viability. The groups will move their eco-friendly homes to the National Mall in D.C., where the "solar village" of houses will

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