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i'd rather be a quaker, it was number 3 though…

According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #3 belief match is Liberal Quakers. What do you believe? Visit SelectSmart.com/RELIGION but it said i was: According to the SelectSmart.com Belief System Selector, my #1 belief match is Unitarian Universalism. What do you believe? Visit SelectSmart.com/RELIGION

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House restores public broadcast funds – Yahoo! News

House restores public broadcast funds – Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives onThursday voted to restore $100 million for public televisionand radio broadcasting next year, reversing a Republican-ledplan to cut spending deeply. —— good

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Trivia for Serenity (2005)

Trivia for Serenity (2005): According to an interview with Alan Tudyk, this is the first movie in a three-picture Firefly contract with Universal. goal goal goal goal goal goal goal goal goal

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ScriptCenter: ATM for Drugs

ScriptCenter: ATM for Drugs: New ATM-like prescription machines are being rolled out in California and Virginia, where new changes in states’ laws allow medicines to be dispensed without a pharmacist. This new machine, called the ‘ScriptCenter,’ has been installed at a Longs Drug in Del Mar, California, and coughs up as much Furosemide and Metformin […]

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bridges.org

bridges.org: ComparisonStudy of Free/Open Source and Proprietary Software in an AfricanContext: Implementation and Policy-making to Optimise Community Accessto ICT The SoftwareComparison research project providesthe needed background information and advice topeople who want to makesound software choices for public computer labs in Africa.Thefinal report represents the first comprehensive analysis of softwarechoicesin the African public-access context. The […]

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The Chronicle: 6/24/2005: Teachers' Pets

The Chronicle: 6/24/2005: Teachers’ Pets: Students who visit the turtles “light up like Christmas trees” when they see them, says Mr. Witz.

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Elizabeth Clementson: Down With MFAs

Elizabeth Clementson: Down With MFAs : So here’s my advice—if have any aspirations for a place in literary history, don’t attend an MFA program. It won’t inspire you to great literature and you won’t be able to pay back that enormous tuition bill unless you write the carefully crafted plot line that everyone wants, but […]

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AlterNet: Life Begins at 'Want a Cigarette?'

AlterNet: Life Begins at ‘Want a Cigarette?’: In Christian terms, full humanity has never been associated merely with material substance. Declaring that a human soul comes into being fully formed at the moment of conception is logically at odds with its status as an organ of informed choice and goes against the whole thrust of […]

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In-ear Headphone Round-up

In-ear Headphone Round-up: Dear readers, we have been wrong. The older folk among us—baby-boomers, cracked former students of the Naval Arts, and other geriatrics—have been underrepresented in our coverage, as evidenced as our hate mail today. Well, old-timers, this one’s for you: Upgrade your iPod: In-Ear Sound-Isolating Earphones [ExtremeTech] —- i use sure e3c’s i […]

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Most popular news stories as ranked by readers of Yahoo! News

Most popular news stories as ranked by readers of Yahoo! News: A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights. —– this is wrong…

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