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Baa-d Kids: Two Goats and a Hog Fail Junior Livestock Competition Drug Test

Get those juiced goats off the field, please. As first reported by the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain, three animals — two goats and a hog — tested positive for a banned substance at a junior livestock show at the Colorado State Fair in late August. That’s right: kids from 4-H and Future Farmers of America, ranging

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Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best ‘device family’ launch ever (Update: AT&T too)

After ignoring and teasing the iPhone, Sprint has its own Apple handsets to sell and apparently its customers have responded to the iPhone 4 and 4S. A press release just went out calling this Sprint’s “best ever day of sales in retail, web and telesales for a device family” — hopefully they double checked the numbers this time — in the company’s history, as of 1PM ET. Predictably, Sprint’s unlimited data pricing compared to other carriers is being credited for the (unspecified) new high water mark in sales. Check the release itself after the break for the rest of the victory lap, but we’ll wait for actual numbers before deciding on the big winner of today’s launch. Update : AT&T just couldn’t let Sprint hog the moment, sending out its own missive claiming the company “activated a record number of iPhones on our network – and is on-track to double our previous record for activations on a single day”. It’s included after the break, and of course we’ll let you know when / if Verizon fires a few shots off in celebration. Continue reading Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best ‘device family’ launch ever (Update: AT&T too) Sprint says the iPhone 4S, 4 add up to its best ‘device family’ launch ever (Update: AT&T too) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Sure, Hillary Clinton has made it sound like there’s no way she’ll be President Obama’s running mate in 2012. But no doesn’t mean no “when politicians say it,” writes Jonathan Alter at Bloomberg . Bob Woodward said last year that a Clinton-Biden job trade was “on the table”; now, an Obama…

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Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

Type: Book Title: Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? See all customer reviews Product Description: America is disintegrating. The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the thrust of Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower. The author of six New York Times bestsellers traces the disintegration to three historic changes: America’s loss of her cradle faith, Christianity; the moral, social, and cultural collapse that have followed from that loss; and the slow death of the people who created and ruled the nation. America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world. Where once we celebrated the unity, the melting pot and shared experience, that the Depression and World War gave us, our elites today proclaim, “Our diversity is our greatest strength!”—even as racial, religious, and ethnic diversity are tearing nations to pieces. Rejecting the commitment to a God-given equality of rights for all as inadequate, our government is engaged in the manic pursuit of equality of rewards, as it seeks to erect an egalitarian utopia that has never before existed. Less and less do we Americans have in common. More and more do we fight over religion, morality, politics, history, and heroes. And as our nation disintegrates, our government is failing in its fundamental duties, unable to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars. How Americans are killing the country they profess to love, and the fate that awaits us if we do not turn around, is what Suicide of a Superpower is all about. See the details

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TED x ME

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In September 2011, I was honored to be on the speaker roster for TEDxBoulder, which is a local though independently-run version of the much-lauded TED talks. My talk was about saving the Earth from asteroid impacts, something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and writing about. The talk is online, and I’ve included it Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 11/10/2011 22:45 Number of articles : 3

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TED x ME

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TED x ME

In September 2011, I was honored to be on the speaker roster for TEDxBoulder, which is a local though independently-run version of the much-lauded TED talks. My talk was about saving the Earth from asteroid impacts, something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and writing about. The talk is online, and I’ve included it Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 11/10/2011 22:45 Number of articles : 3

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Dear Me: celebrity letters to their younger selves – interactive

Don’t do drugs, stop hating your thighs, buy shares in Google: 10 celebrities write letters to their 16-year-old selves with some choice words of advice Chris Fenn

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Video Appears to Show Police Punching Protester

The official cleanup of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month was postponed Friday, police made some arrests, while protesters vowed to remain. (Oct. 14)

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Video Appears to Show Police Punching Protester

The official cleanup of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month was postponed Friday, police made some arrests, while protesters vowed to remain. (Oct. 14)

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