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POPSUS slipping in "human index" Living in SC, and doing art residencies in the schools across the state, I see the differences between "richer" and "poorer" areas first hand. They are stark, and SC has no areas that would even equal many of the more economically powerful states.
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POPS'Worse than apartheid' Nablus is closed off by six checkpoints. Until 2005, one of them was open. "The checkpoints are supposedly for security purposes, but anyone who wants to perpetrate an attack can pay NIS 10 for a taxi and travel by bypass roads, or walk through the hills. The real purpose is to make life hard for the inhabitants. The civilian population suffers," says Said Abu Hijla, a lecturer at Al-Najah University in the city. In the bus I get acquainted with my two neighbours: Andrew Feinstein, a son of Holocaust survivors who is married to a Muslim woman from Bangladesh and served six years as an MP for the ANC ; and Nathan Gefen, who has a male Muslim partner and was a member of the right-wing Betar movement in his youth. Gefen is active on the Committee against AIDS in his AIDS-ravaged country.
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POPSSwitch on a chip to boost internet speed What a great improvement. Telstra is among the worst in the world, old equipment, just for starters. The comparison will show that this will make us as fast as the rest of the world.
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POPSThe Terrorists Have Just Won The REAL terrorists have just stripped away our 4th amendment rights. The "terrorists" we "fight" couldn't have done it better themselves. In 20 years I will look back and recount this day as the day America fell, the day citizens saw their hard-fought rights stripped away in an attack on our liberties that pales in comparison to the attacks of 9/11.
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POPSAboriginal tattoos reflect art, culture The study and comparison between different art forms, has helped find clues as to the social nature of particular tribes, such as whether they were hunter-gatherers or horticulturalists, and degrees to which tribes interacted, and traded.
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POPSSpain Reeling On July 4, Zapatero said: “To be optimistic is something more than a rational act, it is a moral requirement, an act of decency and, if I may say so, elegance.” Imagine that quote from a Leftist.
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POPSEnzymes made to order Making enzymes is a tricky business. Even the names of the techniques sound mind-boggling, with the process involving a mix of 'quantum mechanical computation', 'advanced protein engineering' and 'directed evolution'. while naturally occurring enzymes speed reaction rates by many billion (or even trillion) fold, the synthetic enzymes gave more conservative boosts – around 100,000 fold. "The acceleration is really rather modest by comparison to Nature," admits Houk – but it's still incredibly exciting
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POPSForums more popular than blogs An article by Bogdan Popescu, online editor at Avangate.Forums still seem to be in the lead in comparison with blogs. At the same time, according to this mini-study, successful software developers employ at least of these two methods (blogs or forums) as an interaction (marketing) form with their clients.
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POPSObama Pro Quo Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who also chairs a subcommittee that oversees taxation and IRS oversight, had to donate $10,700 in loan savings from Countrywide when his deal came to light. Obama's veep vetter James Johnson quit after his Countrywide arrangement became known. Yet another Democrat's sweetheart mortgage deal is exposed — and this time it's the party's standard bearer. What could Sen. Barack Obama do for a lender in exchange for more than $100,000? Plenty. If Obama is animated by high ideals for the future, why are we finding so many lowdown deals in his past?
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POPSLike we needed more evidence that the Bush presidency talks crap... I don't know whether I'm more horrified that the comparison to "The Hunting of the Snark" is apt or that our government is keeping these folks at Guantanamo for fear of mistreatment back home. Maybe they're afraid that the water used for water-boarding won't be from a Brita pitcher. We suck.
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POPSDobson: 189; Pew on tolerance of people of faith: 8 James Dobson's attack on Barack Obama was all over the news yesterday. A new Pew Survey “documenting the diversity and tolerance of people of faith and the growing consensus around issues like poverty and the environment” was mentioned only 8 times.
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