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Today's Fresh Blogs...| In Brief: Adorable kitten curls up beside copy of the ... |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 5:46 pm |
| Tags: Animals, Cats, Death, Heartwarming Animal Stories Dept |
| Adorable kitten curls up beside copy of the US Constitution… [CBS] |
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| Civilian Targets |
| Published: July 3, 2007, 6:56 pm |
| Tags: Contemporary Short Stories, Short Stories |
| [This is a work of fiction. The people, places, and events are entirely products of my imagination. I have used Names appropriate to the United States for the players, but by leaving out place names and other signs of ethnicity it is my intention that this not look like any particular war. It could be anyone, anywhere.] Captain Ron Terrell |
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| The Birth of Traitor Tad |
| Published: June 27, 2007, 6:34 pm |
| Tags: Short Stories, Science Fiction Short Stories |
| [The following is a work of fiction, as would be obvious even without this note. It is copyright © by Henry E. Neufeld, 2007] I wake up, but I don’t recognize where I am. For a moment I think I’m in the barracks back home, but there is a strange light. Slowly it begins to come back to me. I’m Captain Tad Tillman, a tank |
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| Our Top Stories: Google News Cushion is Enlightening, Embarrassing |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 3:10 pm |
| Tags: Culture, Cushion, Gadgets, Google, Home Entertainment, News, Our Top Stories, Pillows |
| with the top Google News stories of the year. It's a microcosm, in plush, pillow form, of the collective human experience on planet Earth. For instance, what news did we search most in 2003? Kobe Bryant, Brittany Spears, Shakira, and 50 Cent. 2005 found itself riddled with trifles like "tsunami" and Hurricane Katrina, but it's promising to |
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| Stories of Young Children that Make us Believe them |
| Published: July 15, 2007, 5:11 am |
| Tags: Jomar, Mitch, Showing, Joshua, Asilo, Stories, Hard, Relationships, Friendship, Thinking Aloud, People, Reflections |
| were discussed, another stories were told and heard. Jomar, 14 years old, the second of three siblings, told his stories again as he was complaining about his elder brother as a lazy boy and his father who is doing nothing except to beg for food on the streets. Jomar and Joshua are staying at Asilo while the eldest and the father live |
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| Adoption: Lebanon |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 9:05 am |
| Tags: Adoption Stories, Adoption In The World, Adoption Information |
| Although adoption from Lebanon isn't big enough for a Yahoo group or its own category on the Adoption.com forums, it does happen, and it does make the news. This story about a family from New Hampshire proves it ... but Boy Howdy!!! it ain't easy, or often. According to the => Read more! |
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| Africa adoption: Following rules and other messes |
| Published: July 14, 2007, 4:59 am |
| Tags: Adoption Stories, Nastiness And Shoddy Practices, In The News, The Un, Adopting The Process |
| Any look at Africa adoptions can be complicated, as this story from Nigeria proves. With international Africa adoptions all being country-specific, a lack of understanding of just how things work can cause a world of problems. In all aspects of adoption, educating yourself is the first and most important step, and trying to do adopt without going |
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| Your Internet Dating Stories Wanted! |
| Published: January 22, 2006, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Internet Dating Stories |
| Tell us your personal dating stories and we will publish them on this site The Internet Dating Guide! Anything and everything goes, but please change original names, places and dates to ensure anonymity for all parties. So what you waiting for, here's the contact form. |
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| Amayi Makawa (story) |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Peace Corps Stories |
| The walk out to Ntonda Village was about 10 kilometers from the health center I was working at in Blantyre, Malawi. Mrs. Nkhata, my nurse counterpart, had helped me select Ntonda two years ago as a... |
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| In a Pig's Eye (story) |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Peace Corps Stories |
| I could hear the boys in their rising clamor of bloodlust. They were preparing to slaughter the pigs, a ritual that I had come to dread. After eighteen months, I knew what to expect. Frustrated by... |
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| UK Press: Gene for left-handedness |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:52 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories |
| it up, mostly briefly. Stories: The Register Lucy Sherriff; BBC; Telegraph Laura Clout; Times Lewis Smith; Other leftyness news: NewKerala (India, Jul 18): Converting left-hander to right-hander also changes the brain. Grist for the Mill: Wellcome Trust Ctr/Oxford U Press Release; |
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| Guardian: Gecko-mussel glue, fossil fly-eye tips for solar voltaics, and more Biomimicry |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:09 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| The Tracker often mentions he is a sucker for biomimicry. Its unmistakable lesson is that mindless random resorting of genes plus selective pressure is a better inventor, in many ways, than is the logic of the conscious mind (even when propelled by the subconscious’s marvels of free-association). Kate Ravilious has in The Guardian Unlimited |
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| NYTimes ScienceTimes: About us humans — 237 reasons for sex, game playing, the subconscious (and other topics too) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 11:21 am |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories, Environment Stories |
| Today’s p.1 in ScienceTimes coheres thematically around why we do what we do. The three up front: one from John Tierney in his Findings column on a survey’s 237 conscious explanations for having sex (variations on lust, procreation, prestige, love, just-gotta-have-it, duty…); a marvelous and surprising lead piece by |
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| Seattle PI: Off Washington, a first for US - reef of glass sponge |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:59 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Environment Stories |
| The picture is great and Lisa Stiffler has a good yarn to go with it in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A U of Washington (or you-dub to locals) geologist found a reef dominated by glass sponges recently, about 30 miles off shore and 650 feet down. Until not so long ago, it says here, scientists only knew glass sponge reefs from fossils. Then some |
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| NYTimes: In Uncertain Texas, a singular lake targeted for extreme makeover |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:36 pm |
| Tags: Environment Stories |
| This may be news to lots of us. Texas has just one lake of the natural kind. One hundred sixty five out of 166 “lakes” are artificial reservoirs and such. The Times’s Ralph Blumenthal visits that 166th one (shared with Louisiana) near the town of Uncertain. There wildlife biologists and crews working for them are about to wham |
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