Researchers Determine That if the Vitamins Don’t Kill you the Precipitation Might

If you are taking over 400 milligrams a day of vitamin E you have an increased risk of lung cancer: Vitamin E linked to lung cancer
If you have been choking down those vitamin E pills and you go outside to take a breath, you may not want to inhale any of those pretty little snowflakes [...]

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CNN Quick Vote

I find this more than interesting…
Today’s CNN Quick Vote question is:
Should the media keep stories secret to protect people from harm?
Response as of 7:30 PM Eastern:

Yes
79%
100195

No
21%
26454

Total Votes: 126649

Huh??
Is this REALLY a true reflection of how people feel? People REALLY want their news to be sanitized? Is it NOT news then?
Frankly, this flabbergasts me. Talk about [...]

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Hookah Smoking has its Hazards

Puff, puff, puff with caution!
From the PRNewswire

Public Health Officials Warn About the Unrecognized Health Hazards of Smoking from a Hookah, Reports the Harvard Mental Health Letter

BOSTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new fad among college students and other young people — smoking from a hookah — is raising public health concerns. The centuries-old [...]

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Soon U.S. Citizens Must Ask for Government Permission to Fly or Travel

From Natural News
by David Gutierrez
(NaturalNews) The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is moving forward to institute a rule that would require all passengers to go through a government review process before boarding any airplane that takes off or lands anywhere with in the United States.
The U.S. government already requires international passengers to [...]

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Sat Shoot-Down Logo Revealed!

From Wired/Danger Room
By Noah Shachtman
February 26, 2008 | 3:08:00 AM
Our tipsters have sent us a copy of the military’s logo for last week’s satellite-shooting operation.  Behold!

Sure, the military may be calling the effort “Operation Burnt Frost,” in public.  But, as this logo reveals, there’s a different monicker, behind closed doors.  Amazingly, the armed forces appeared [...]

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What is YOUR Dollar per Gallon Tipping Point?

If and when it hits $4/gallon I, personally, am in trouble. I am a long distance commuter so I consume a lot of gasoline per month. I think I’ll freak…
From PRNewswire
$4 a Gallon Gasoline Will be Tipping Point for Most Consumers
Keeping the Car Running Better and Driving it Less is the Trend
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 27 [...]

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Ethiopian Aid Workers Under Gag Orders While They Carry out Relief Efforts

What the heck is the world coming to…?
From Reuters

Keep quiet about atrocities, Ethiopia warns aid workers
27 Feb 2008 16:44:00 GMT
Written by: Joanne Tomkinson

Aid workers in Ethiopia’s remote Ogaden region are currently facing an impossible dilemma. In order to carry on helping people in the east of the country, the [...]

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Starbucks Tuesday Pep Rally

On Tuesday, 2/26/08, approximately 7100 Starbucks stores shut down for an expresso tutorial/pep rally. Starbucks “baristas” learned to properly pour expresso into a coffee drink from a shot glass. Starbucks management felt that the mini-training session was well worth some loss in profts in order to ensure that “perfect coffee drink.”
Am I excited over this? [...]

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Your Hard Earned Tax Dollars at Work

Convicted murderer cries injustice from prison! Officials are hindering continuance of sex change procedures.
Tax dollars not only have to feed and harbor criminals but it has to take care of their sex change needs? Ahem, really…  Where does the line get drawn?

From AP/Yahoo News
Sex-change inmate says treatment stopped

By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated [...]

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You Better Start Looking up, Miami!

From Flight Global
Video: Miami Police plans urban test of Honeywell’s micro-UAV
20/02/08
By Graham Warwick
Police in Miami, Florida want to find out whether a small unmanned air vehicle able to hover and stare can help law enforcement in urban areas.
To that end, Miami-Dade Police Department plans a four- to six-month evaluation of Honeywell’s ducted-fan Micro Air [...]

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