Yesterday WASHINGTON POST columnist Mike Wise Tweeted that a source had told him that Ben Roethlisberger had been suspended for five games by the NFL in response to the Pittsburgh quarterback’s off-field issues.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday.
Review Finds Flaws in U.N. Climate Panel Structure - NYTimes.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — USA Today, the nation’s second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices.
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While 55% of voters who identify themselves as pro-choice support government funding of stem cell research, 83% of pro-life voters are opposed.
In March of last year, 52% of all voters agreed with President Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, but 38% were opposed. A federal judge this week blocked that decision, but the Obama administration intends to appeal the ruling. The issue at hand is whether the research destroys living human embryos.
Conspicuously absent from those declarations were facts that Obama would prefer to omit because they are — well, inconvenient. But those facts did not elude U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who on Monday said the revised policy violates federal law.
What facts? A restriction approved by Congress in 1996, and repeatedly renewed, says federal money may not be used for “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.” But the point of Obama’s new policy was to pay for experiments using stem cells harvested from embryos that are killed in the process.
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The Silver City Restaurant & Brewery in Silverdale, Wash. is adding another offering to its lineup of ales and lagers: an iPad, on the house.
The Livio Car Internet Radio app, currently available for iPhone and in the works for Android phones, lets users listen to Internet-only radio stations as well as AM and FM stations from around the world.
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Iran started loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant Saturday, a day after officials there declared victory for the country’s nuclear program.
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Voting closes on Saturday at AppsforHealthyKids.com, a competition sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity. Professional and amateur web developers have submitted their computer games and mobile phone applications designed to encourage children to “make more nutritious food choices and be more physically active.”
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Allysia Finley warns that environmentalists and liberal leadership in Congress have another industry in its cross-hairs: the chemical industry. A new study attempts to make a connection between the prevalence of chemicals and rising rates of obesity.
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The last time an American soldier was strafed on the ground by enemy air forces was in the Korean War. This air dominance has effectively removed an entire layer of operational planning from U.S. campaigns, as the U.S. Air Force can concentrate on directly attacking enemy forces and supporting ground troops and not worry about enemy air forces.
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