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POPSGo PVC-Free for Back-to-School Parents across the country are stocking up on the latest binders and lunchboxes over the next few weeks. But while it’s easy to know the healthiest foods to pack in those lunchboxes, many parents are not aware of the toxic plastic used to make them. In fact, the average child’s character-themed backpack is filled with supplies and materials made from one of the most toxic plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl). That’s why we at the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) have released our 2nd annual Back-to-School Guide to PVC-Free School Supplies to help you make healthy shopping choices that are safer for your kids, your community and the environment. The guide features a listing of safer PVC-free school supplies in over 20 product categories - from lunchboxes and backpacks to raingear. We even put together a handy wallet-sized version of the guide for your shopping needs on the go.
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POPSThe Lying Liars of Socialized Medicine Presumably Daschle recommends the Federal Reserve-SEC-Politburo-style central planning model. On Page 179, Daschle writes, “The Federal Health Board (FHB) wouldn’t be a regulatory agency, but its recommendations would have teeth because all federal health programs would have to abide by them.” Although the FHB would have no official oversight of the two-thirds of health care delivered through the private sector, Daschle asserts that Congress could easily change that aspect of the Board: " could... link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board’s recommendation.” Yesterday USA Today reported that Democrats are using just that approach. "The biggest tax break in America — tax-free health benefits from employers — could be scaled back to pay for President Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system." By doing so, Congress would utterly and completely destroy America's private-sector health care system
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POPSShould Farm Animals Receive Antibiotics? Here's a controversial issue for you: as resistance to antibiotics grow (see MRSA), should we stop giving antibiotics to farm animals as a prophylactic measure? That's the subject of a new bill proposed by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D) and Sen. Kennedy. Opponents of the bill argue that without antibiotics, industrially raised farm animals will be more likely to get sick, thus raising the price of meat. They also argue that there's no conclusive evidence that antibiotics in farm animals is causing widespread resistance. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently wrote a compelling op-ed about this very subject here: http://tinyurl.com/bc82va. What do you think?
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POPSDo We Need a Food Czar? Nick Kristof has a compelling op-ed about the possibility of replacing the role of agriculture secretary with something more expansive and forward-thinking. He, along with dozens of other foodies/food issues experts, persuasively makes the case that we need to reexamine food policy in this country since it's inexorably linked to health, energy and climate change issues. But I'm also recommending this op-ed because it has quirky details, like the fact that Kristof receives an annual payment to not grow crops on a family farm in Oregon. I would have never guessed!
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POPSRick Warren's Double Life Even the public relations firms responsible for burnishing Warren’s image seem mystified by the press’s worshipful portrayal of their client.
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POPS "Intellectuals" ~ by Thomas Sowell Similarly, no one ever thought of President Calvin Coolidge as an intellectual. Yet Coolidge also read the classics in the White House. He read both Latin and Greek, and read Dante in the original Italian, since he spoke several languages. It was said that the taciturn Coolidge could be silent in five different languages. During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model — all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food. More than half a century later, when the archives of the Soviet Union were finally opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev, it turned out that about six million people had died in that famine — about the same number as the people killed in Hitler’s Holocaust.
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POPSThe Push To "Otherize" Obama In Nicholas D. Kristof's column in the N.Y.Times he points out that "religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice".These are very sad times!!!!
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POPSWill The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up? Without a TelePromTer staring him down, he's an inarticulate, bumbling mess. He lies continuously about his past and his present, including important details concerning his upbringing and personal associations. He shamelessly takes all sides of all issues, changing his public positions to suit what he thinks people want to hear -- far in excess of the boilerplate, mendacious blather put forth by most other politicians. Subjected to a rootless upbringing by a self-absorbed, radical leftist mother, and abandoned by a self-absorbed, hard-drinking philandering father, he sought refuge, meaning and personal grounding in drugs and in the hateful words and destructive ideologies of men like Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and William Ayers. What are the odds that the Times's Nicholas Kristof will release the tape recording of that Obama interview so that language experts can determine whether or not Obama's Arabic accent is indeed "first rate?"
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POPSObama's Indonesian Registration Document and Media Cover-Up Reasons for censorship? The Associated Press and the rest of the mainstream media probably had this photo of the registration document in their hands or databases but refused to touch it. After CNN published the facts that FOX incorrectly reported that the school was a madrassa, the entire issue of Barack Obama's name of 'Barry Soetero' was side stepped. It was probably decided that this material or photo shouldn't be available to the general public. (The same idea was probably applied to any audio or visual media related to a separate issue concerning an interview between Barack Obama and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.) Therefore the image lay untouched and untranslated in the Daylife.com photo repository for 18 months.
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POPSMore Diplomats- Less Soldiers More musicians in Military Bands, than Diplomats Let's go into more war with music, because the Diplomatic route failed? And too few speak other languages. Kind of shows the ignorance we display worldwide.
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POPSNYT op-ed piece on Obama's speech on race I thought, this is a pretty good op-ed piece about Obama's speech on Tuesday. I thought he spoke about things that people are afraid to really acknowledge & discuss. As a society we tend to forget about the perspectives of others, because everyone is so caught up in their own experiences (of course). But maybe this will open up passionate and heated discussions on the American experience, which is varied & as diverse as the people who make up this country.
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POPSWhite evangelicals: poverty no. 1 moral issue Religious right no longer dominates evangelical electorate; "evangelical leaders ... key to taking climate issue across the cultural divide;" in Africa, only "crazy doctors and crazy Christians" will brave some regions to bring aid
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POPSThe Dynamo Mouse鼠标发电机 听到打魔兽的哥们最近老在说AMP( Action Per Minute) 就是每场下来平均每分钟的操作次数 包括鼠标的点击和键盘敲击次数 一定程度上可以代表操作水平 想想全世界每秒的鼠标点击次数该怎么计算 理论上来讲这个小玩意儿还是有前途的
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