This Monday, January 17th, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s a day for us to celebrate one of the most important peacemaking heroes in… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Huffington Post Discovery Date : 16/01/2011 16:48 Number of articles : 5
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image credit: FDA According to The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Circle City Marketing and Distributing doing business as Candy Dynamics, Indianapolis, IN, is issuing a voluntary recall of all Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars, all flavors, Net wt. 0.7 oz (20 g) package. The product is imported from Pakistan. A recent test performed by the California Department of Public Health has indicated that a lot (#8288A) of the cherry flavor of the above-listed product contains elevated levels of lead (0.24 parts per million; the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Like Rahm Emanuel, who didn't to waste a crisis, Frank Rich doesn't want to let a murderous rampage pass without trying to wring political advantage.
Continue reading …Melting glaciers all along the Andes are giving up their secrets, revealing plane crashes and climbing accidents in a boon to historians and explorers, reports the New York Times . Among the recent finds: a plane that crashed in 1990, a 1947 British plane crash, an Austrian climber, and three Inca…
Continue reading …Woolly mammoths could be walking the Earth again in as little as four years, according to a Japanese scientist. A technique pioneered in 2008 successfully cloned a mouse from the cells of a mouse frozen for 16 years, and the professor believes he can use the same technique to resurrect…
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Ronald Reagan’s sons are squabbling, with conservative Michael calling younger, liberal brother Ron “an embarrassment” and asking the public to “pray for my brother.” The ruckus comes after Ron speculated in his forthcoming book that the 40th president suffered from the early effects of Alzheimer’s while in office. “Ron, my…
Continue reading …Thieves damage South African traffic lights, reach for the juicy SIM card innards
January 16, 2011 No Comment
Johannesburg, South Africa had six hundred high-tech traffic signals, each with a cellular modem and GPS chip. The idea was, if one malfunctioned, they’d call home immediately. Well, that plan isn’t working out so well, because only two hundred are still in working order — vandals ripped apart the rest to get at their SIM cards, causing traffic jams and accidents. Apparently, the government-provided cards are a ticket to unlimited free phone calls for the thieves — at least until the individual devices are identified and their permissions revoked. The Johannesburg Roads Agency told the Mail & Guardian that the crime looks like an inside job, because only the new, SIM-equipped signals seem to have been targeted so far. The damages are piling up, with the agency figuring it will require ZAR 8.8 million (roughly $1.26 million) to repair the four hundred signals currently out of order. Needless to say, the agency is looking at ways to better secure the traffic lights. We’re guessing that switching to CDMA is probably off the table. Embedded SIMs , perhaps? Thieves damage South African traffic lights, reach for the juicy SIM card innards originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …A man who was injured in the Tucson shooting last weekend was pulled from a town hall meeting yesterday after allegedly threatening a participant, reports the Arizona Daily Star . James Eric Fuller interrupted the meeting, being taped by ABC’s This Week , telling a Tea Party leader on stage, “You’re dead….
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One of the Arizona shooting victims was arrested Saturday and then taken for a psychiatric evaluation after authorities said he took a picture of a tea party leader at a televised town hall meeting and yelled: “you’re dead.” (Jan. 15)
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