Jun 26, 2008 -
Everybody is a little bit racist
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Mar 10, 2009 -
Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has
By NICHOLAS WADE (NYT science section)
Published: March 9, 2009
With soaring oratory, President Obama on Monday removed a substantial practical nuisance that has long made life difficult for stem cell researchers. He freed biomedical researchers using federal money (a vast majority) to work on more than the small number of human embryonic stem cell lines that were established before Aug.
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Apr 24, 2008 -
Why recycling really matters
Ride-along traces trash's path from rubbish to resurrection
By Elana Ashanti Jefferson
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 04/24/2008 03:51:09 AM MDT
"I definitely see the volume coming into our plants growing," says Bill Cira, Colorado district manager for Waste Management/ Recycle America. Cira oversees several recycling processing facilities like this one on Franklin Street in Denver.(Elana Ashanti)
You can tell a lot about a neighborhood by what ends up in its recycling bins.
Wine bottles and newspapers?
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Feb 25, 2008 -
ONCE upon a time in a land not so far, far away a new musical began its journey to Broadway.
DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. have announced that SHREK THE MUSICAL will play an exclusive world premiere engagement at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, August 14th to September 21st, prior to opening on Broadway in the Fall of 2008.
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Jul 24, 2007 -
Screen Door Film Presents: Last Days of the San Jose
Finding hot button issues in Austin is not unlike finding a needle in a needlestack and no issue is as passionately debated as real estate. When Liz Lambert left her law practice with the Attorney General’s office and purchased the run down San Jose Motel, she had designs to create an oasis of hip on South Congress Avenue before the condo-boom had even begun, and little did she know that what she was building would change not only the face, but the character of the beloved 78704. Tomorrow night, Screen Door Film brings us a true Austin epoch: the transition from crack pipes to polished concrete in Lambert’s documentary Last Days of the San Jose.
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Apr 01, 2008 -
Jay Leno's nice-guy reputation is taking a beating from the gay community and others after NBC's Tonight Show host made some recent on-air remarks deemed highly inappropriate.
Apparently attempting to become playful during his interview with guest Ryan Phillippe (whose appearance was keyed to his new movie Stop-Loss), Leno, 57, said to the actor, "Can you give me, like – say that camera is your gay lover ..."
Despite Phillippe's instant discomfort, Leno went on to say, "Can you give me your 'gayest look'?
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