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POPSThe Achilles’ Heel of Aging § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Twenty years ago, if you’d suggested to a parlor full of erudite doctors and professors that something as complicated as aging might be controlled by a small set of genes, you would have been laughed out of the room. But that was precisely what Drs. Cynthia Kenyon, Tom Johnson, and Gary Ruvkun demonstrated in their landmark studies of the roundworm C. elegans in the 1990s. Now, thanks to those trailblazers and my mentor, Dr. Lenny Guarente, we have isolated those genes and discovered ways to tweak them to our advantage.
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POPS Love The Warriors
On New Year’s Eve, we learned that Qais Khazali has been released, apparently as part of a prisoner exchange for British hostage Peter Moore. Laith Khazali was already released six months ago. Peter Moore was kidnapped in May 2007, explicitly to be used as a bargaining chip for the freedom of the Khazali brothers. The circumstances around Qais Khazali’s release are murky, with the usual denials and clarifications swirling around like a cloud of confetti over Times Square on New Years’ Eve. Multi National Force spokesmen claim this was not a hostage trade, but rather an attempt to comply with “the implementation of the U.S. " Iraq Security Agreement” and support a “reconciliation process.” Some suggest this is all part of an elaborate intelligence operation. Republican Senators Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl have already sent a letter to the Obama Administration, citing an executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986 that prohibits concessions to terrorist hostage .....
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POPSSolution to killer superbug found in Norway Now a spate of new studies from around the world prove that Norway's model can be replicated with extraordinary success, and public health experts are saying these deaths " 19,000 in the U.S. each year alone, more than from AIDS " are unnecessary.
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POPSGlobal Warming Fraud and the Future of Science "The collaboration between science and democracy is one of the great achievements of human history. It is now threatened by the behavior of people at the very heart of that collaboration. If it is destroyed, something of unparalleled value will have vanished, something that will be nearly impossible to replace. If the Western world wishes to continue its magnificent upward journey, we will have to save science from itself. An errant and corrupt climatology is the place to start."
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POPSWW2 People's War The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.
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POPSBury My Heart at Wounded Knee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmvrHoyMZ8 Buffy Sainte Marie sings my thought best! The killing of people and the earth has not stopped.
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POPSSainthood measure for Obama stalled at the Vatican 'He actually hailed a cab and was picked up in all-white Bensonhurst, NY!' Claims Mboto Chunka, cab driver. 'I saw him walk across a mud puddle!' Claims supporter and film director Michael Moore. "He tried to clean the skidmarks off my drawers...Now that was a real miracle...claimed Mr Moore."
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POPSPharma drugs...research before you swallow! There is a place for lets say penicillin. But that said it is ridiculous to take 20 meds..unless you have had a heart transplant.. and even then I would look into each drug..do YOUR research..be in charge of YOUR health...don't just lay your life in anyone's hands..(unless it is the Messiah)
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (3) Following Bartlett's logic, it's a case of do or die (if not, do and die), if not on the level of the individual, then on the level of humankind. People need to start to care for themselves (and others!) on the level of the species. The selfish individualism fostered by the consumer economy and the whole trash heap of economic growth theory needs to thrown overboard first, otherwise the boat will most certainly sink.
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POPSVitamin D3 News, Information and Resources Website featuring news and articles written by top health professionals and health columnists focusing on the seemingly countless health benefits associated with Vitamin D3. Several articles appearing on the site were written by world-renowned health columnist Pamela Egan, who is among the world's leading researchers of Vitamin D3, and among the world's most popular columnists that have written about the subject. Peer reviewed, VitaminD3.info is the web's #1 resource for anything in any way related to Vitamin D3.
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POPSA Different Christmas Poem Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child. “What are you doing?” I asked without fear, “Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here! Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!” For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.. To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light Then he sighed and he said “Its really all right, I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.” “It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line, That separates you from the darkest of times.
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POPSMerry Christmas - Delayed 35 Years Thirty-five years in prison for a crime you did not do. What would you say? How could you have stood it, more than 230 cases similar and people freed by one innocence project. How many more do you think are in jail just for being poor or because police and district attoneys cared more about a conviction than the truth.
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POPSAbandoned newborn has gift for rescuers 20 years later "Hi, I'm sorry to bother you," she wrote to Chris, "but if you are the Chris Astle I was looking for then I just want to thank you. You and Ms. Yanich found me on someone's doorstep when I was an infant. I don't really know what else to say, but thank you. If I've gotten the wrong person then I apologize! — Mia" In his office, Chris read the message and exclaimed out loud. A buddy down the hall heard him and called, "Are you all right?" Chris said he was fine. A reunion is being planned so the three can see one another again. Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14022553#ixzz0a2KS7GaH
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POPS20 GOP Senators Call for Investigation of Offutt Threat Let’s be clear: the people spreading these falsehoods think nothing is wrong with a system under which families and businesses continue to bear the brunt of skyrocketing costs, insurance companies are allowed to discriminate and drop at will, and thousands of Americans lose their coverage every single day.” They protest a little too much. I do not know this story is "absolutely false." To the contrary, I'm confident it's true. Twenty senators are now calling for an investigation, and each is presumably pretty well sourced in the Senate. If the charges are "absolutely false," maybe the White House will encourage Senate Democrats to call this Republican bluff. I won't hold my breath. What is absolutely true is that the threat itself is clumsy. The Base Realignment and Closure Process won't get started again for a couple of years, and Offutt is a nearly irreplaceable piece of America's national security infrastructure.
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POPS "Twenty Slivers" Stephanie Schneiderman on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s … MySpace Music profile for Stephanie Schneiderman. … And while music is her first love, Stephanie has enjoyed success as an actress as well. … www.stephanieschneiderman.com Band Members Keith Schreiner (of Dahlia) James Beaton (of Storm and the Balls) Influences Elliot Smith, Patti Griffin, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Kathleen Edwards, Erika Bahdu, Lucinda Williams, David Mead, Anne Peebles, Stevie Wonder, Daniel Lanois, Massive Attack, Chris Whitley, Velvet Underground, The Shins, Aimee Mann, Paul Simon, Iron and Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Waits, Pete Krebs, Noe Venable, Deb Talan, Dar Williams, Jose Gonzales and Crosby Stills and Nash Sounds Like Ambient Indie Pop w/ influences of trip-hop, folk and soul. http://www.myspace.com/stephanieschneiderman
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POPSGroups Say 22 Million Missing Bush White House E-Mails Found This is a lefty wet dream Bush impeach *Fap Fap Fap Fap* and Cheney *Fap Fap Fap Fap* oh ya thats the Spot *Fap Fap Fap Fap* HaliB UUUUURRRRRRRTonnnnnn... "You’re No Good, You’re No Good, You’re No Good, Bush, You’re No Good" waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! LOL At least they didn't turn up in a room next to his office like Hillary's "billing gate" files. he wasn't screwing with the climate data was he ?
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POPS24 Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities This Halloween, forget the plastic cape and cheesy costume. Why not find and explore the real relics and strange structures of an actual ghost town or abandoned city instead? From Azerbaijan to Japan, Italy to Siberia and Cyprus to China, here are twenty-four haunting real-life ghost villages, towns and cities from around the world.
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POPSDNA bungle shows 'lessons not learnt' TV probably convinced most that DNA was the panacea, but allowance for human error has to come in somewhere, so it should be able to be questioned. (I doubt it has much to do with the rich, who seem to be sloppy with their DNA.)
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POPSThe GOP's Fatally Bad Judgement As if choosing Bush TWICE was not bad enough, especially after 9/11 and his close ties to the terrorist's family (google Arbusto Energy, if you are clueless), wars, huge deficits, and overall incompetence, now they are looking to Huckabee!? Will they never learn?
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POPSACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registration
She and her James have made custom caps for politicians, sports heroes, musicians, and others. “America,” she says, “is the place you can live your dreams if you work at it.” She’s a can-do woman with a great American spirit, and when she saw what was breaking in the news about ACORN, she came forward; I interviewed her Monday morning. “This is my first experience” with ACORN, Muhammad said. “This was before Obama got the nomination, long before then….I heard about this group that was paying $3.00 per person, to go out and to get people to sign up to vote. So I went over, I thought that well this is a good way to make some money because I know everybody, you know. I went over there and this guy signed me up and everything, and gave me my little pad, all this stuff.” Muhammad went to the ACORN office in Jacksonville. There she encountered a young man speaking to a room of about twenty people. “He was telling us, you know, about his experience, he was from Brooklyn, he wasn’t fr
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POPSMore people on SF streets are newly homeless More: Twenty of 21 cities surveyed for a new report from U.S. Conference of Mayors reported an increase in requests for food, and 59 percent of those requests came from families. In addition, 16 of 25 cities reported a significant increase in homeless families, with San Francisco among the leaders. "Monday we had 136 families on the waiting list for a shelter," said Dariush Kayhan, the city's homeless policy director. "That's 50 percent more than we had on the list one year ago." What's more concerning is that, according to the city's Human Services Agency, 62 percent of those on the waiting list are new to the system. They haven't been homeless in San Francisco before… Indications are that we are only seeing the beginning of what the faltering economy will do to those living on the edge of homelessness…single men, particularly returning veterans, continue to be most likely to end up on the street.
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POPSOprah Calls It Quits Sure most of you have heard the news about Oprah, but if not I have clipped this article. I saw on the Oprah show on Friday her announcing the end of her Oprah show next year on 9/9/2011. In typical Oprah style she made the announcement with such grace and style. This will make it a 25 year season for the show. I am really interested in seeing her shows over the next year as I am sure they will be outstanding.
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