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Back to traditional farming to beat climate change

When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ketsana’, delayed the arrival of conference delegates from the Philippines

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Obama threatens insurers’ anti-trust exemption

WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of airing “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws. In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own “profits and bonuses” and willing to “bend the truth or break it” to stop his drive to remake the nation’s health care system.

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Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes

There are 10^10^16 of them (but #1,000,443,163,313,125,343,132 is the evil one) For some time, physicists have theorized about the existence of alternate universes. In fact, some models of physics require multiple universes, to explain some rarely observed phenomena. But, other than obvious ones like The Man In The High Castle Universe where the Nazis won WWII, the Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse Universe, and the Terran Empire “Mirror Mirror” Universe, just how many alternate universes are there

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Nicki Minaj Says Her Debut Single Will Drop Next Month

‘We already have it, just waiting on the timing,’ the Young Money member says.

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‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’: An Advance Look

New issue of Entertainment Weekly gives a look at what is called ‘somewhere in between’ a concert film and a documentary. By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson in “This is It” Photo: AEG/ Sony Though he consented to have them filmed, Michael Jackson never intended for the world to see the sweat and blood he put into the four months of rehearsals for his planned comeback shows in London. But, with just two weeks to go before “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” opens in theaters, and sell-outs piling up across the country in anticipation of the movie chronicling the pop star’s final musical moments, this weeks’ Entertainment Weekly cover story looks at the scramble to make the movie.

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Taylor Swift And Michael Jackson Lead AMAs

Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson have the most nominations at this year’s American Music Awards. Jackson is up for the coveted Artist of the Year award, as well as Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Album, Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist for his re-released greatest hits album.

Dems scramble after warning from health insurers

Insurance companies aren't playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate and threatens President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. Democrats and their allies scrambled on Monday to knock down a new industry-funded study forecasting that Senate legislation, over time, will add thousands of dollars to the cost of a typical policy

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US Treasury misled public on Wall Street banks’ bailouts, Report

Neil Barofsky, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has criticised US Treasury officials for making optimistic statements last September, at the height of the financial crisis. The US Treasury misled the public over the health of struggling Wall Street banks receiving emergency funds at the height of the financial crisis, creating unrealistic expectations and undermining popular trust in bailout efforts, according to an official audit. An inspector general appointed to oversee the US government's banking bailout has singled out president Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, for painting an excessively rosy picture of the condition of institutions such as Bank of America, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch when the government pumped $125bn (

China begins mass vaccinations

“China kicked off mass vaccinations for swine flu Monday in Beijing, making it apparently the first nation in the world to start innoculating its population against the virus. The health ministry has said it plans to vaccinate 65 million people, or five percent of the country’s total population of 1.3 billion, before year’s end.” Pay close attention to the following statistic in the article…. “On Monday, China had recorded 13,262 cases of A(H1N1) flu, according to the latest information released on the health ministry’s website

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Who’s Your Favorite Media Pussyhound?

In the wake of David Letterman ‘s staff scoring stiffy, we decided to look back at some of our favorite media ass-magnets. These are extraordinary examples of why straight guys get in this business in the first place: the crazy poon , bro

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