BILL HIBBS QUESTION What's your opinion of the newer "tankless water heaters?" I have a main floor laundry room with my washer, dryer, furnace and 23-year-old water heater in it. I would have a lot more room if I had one of the new water heaters there ins
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]]> The United States should consider spiraling food prices that hurt the world's poor when it sets policies that are funneling much of its corn crop into biofuel production, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
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]]> White House evaluation of threats to endangered whales may be biased; Vice President's office objects to science-based claim that reducing speed will protect whales
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]]> Who made who, who turned the screw?

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]]> - "Let your past go, the burden of carting your past around, has made you weary. It's time to set this burden down. Keep only the lesson's, and the love, leave everything else behind. You don't want it or need it, and it's now gone".
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]]> Meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist pastor and McCain spiritual guide, who has called on Christians to wage war against Islam.
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]]> The Washington Post is set to roll out a major investigative series by by prizewinning reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein, this time centering on the hot-button issue of immigration.
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]]> Feeling the twinges of eco-anxiety? I admit it. I’ve stood at the supermarket fish counter, struggling to remember which fish are sustainably grown and which ones are not. I obsess over the deli containers tumbling out of my kitchen cabinet, worrying abo
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]]> Market analysts say the organic market trend is here to stay, despite rising food prices. In fact, issues surrounding these price hikes - the globalization of food and environmental factors - may actually bolster this market.

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]]> Traditionally the quietest month in the seasonal eating calendar, May is the crossover period between winter vegetables in storage, and the summer harvests. But there's still plenty to enjoy, from new potatoes to spring greens, and the summer to come.
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]]> For the next 72 hours, I will eat nothing with corn products or corn derivatives, which pretty much excludes all the mysterious multisyllabic ingredients on the back of most processed foods. It also excludes all those “acids”: ascorbic, citric, lactic, ma
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]]> Today in China 10,000 bears are kept prisoner for extracting bile from their gall bladders. The bears are kept in a horizontal position, in cages that look rather like coffins. They wear a metal collar and are held down by pressure bars.
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]]> Policemen at Xicotepec, Juarez, Puebla, exhibited extra-ordinary cruelty towards an animal when one of them ran down a dog on the road and not satisfied with the physical injuries and pain inflicted to the poor animal returned to his patrol and ran over
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]]> PSPCA Adoption Center, a state-of-the-art facility located at 350 E. Erie Avenue in Philadelphia, was modeled after a greenhouse, with glass-block kennels, heated floors, air conditioning and glorious amounts of natural light. M-F 1-8 PM, Sun. 10 AM-4 PM.
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]]> After Beijing's Cat Death Camps, here come the Seal version in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

OMG I had nooooooooooooo idea about THIS...
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]]> A compilation of many different speeches given by Mike Ruppert of fromthewilderness.com about the Bush Administration's means, motive and opportunity for committing the mass murder and high treason known as 9/11.
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]]> The perfect way to bring the totalitarian neo cons and nanny government proponents, a.k.a. our present government, to their unconstitutional knees! This is great and goes right to their darkest power, the power to hit print!
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]]> Dan Rather Reports presents conclusive evidence of the failure of touch screen voting machines across the country. The episode, "The Trouble with Touch Screens", is an entire hour devoted to new information
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]]> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve and other regulators are moving Friday to crack down on "unfair and deceptive" practices in the credit card industry that have added billions in debt to people already struggling to cope with the economic downturn.
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]]> Glenochar was the winner of the 1997 Pitt Rivers Award for amateur Archaeologists. Here we see the long-term excavations of a 17th century settlement in the lowlands of Scotland, meticulously carried out by the local museum trust
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]]> When Gary Mikus learned that an incurable nerve disease was starting to paralyze the hind legs of his German shepherd, he immediately dismissed the idea of putting the dog to sleep.

Then he spotted an ad in a pet food store: “Eddie’s Wheels For Pets.
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]]> The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking the arrest of a Congolese commander known as The Terminator, who is wanted for recruiting child soldiers
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]]> Congress finds itself under pressure to halt recent incentives to produce ethanol, and to cut farmers' subsidies.
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]]> Llamadas Pedaleadas, or Pedaled Phone Calls is a pedal powered phone station on a three wheeled bike that can go wherever people are and allows them to make phone calls according to their budget. It is kind of like a prepaid system or phone booth on the
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]]> The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling (pdf) in United States v. Arnold allows border patrol agents to search your laptop or other digital device without limitation when you are entering the country. EFF and many civil liberties, travelers’ rights, immigration
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]]> Garon died a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.


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]]> Please give orphan bears the second chance they need to survive. Sign up today, and we’ll send you Shasha Bear absolutely free. It’s the perfect way show your mum how much you care about her and the animals.

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]]> I was amazed how some people react, when confronted with information that goes against their prior programming. It is as if to even consider the possibility that their belief system may be incorrect, was a threat to their mental well being.
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]]> The trouble with history is, we weren't there when it took place and it can be changed to fit someones belief and/or traditions, or it can be taught in the public schools to favor a political agenda, and withhold many facts.
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]]> Hundreds of residents fled their homes and spent the night out in the open after a volcano in southern Chile erupted, spewing lava and ash.
The director of the government's emergency bureau, Carmen Fernandez, today said that a state of alert remained
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MRSA now killing more Americans than AIDS
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]]> With oil now costing more than $110 per barrel and gasoline prices exceeding $4 per gallon in many parts of the country, it is popular to blame rising energy demand in China and India for the run-up in prices. Americans should instead look in the mirror.
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]]> Please have a look.......
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]]> Innovation and leadership in industry translates into livable cities with green building projects, improvements to infrastructure, sustainable transportation and waste management.
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]]> Remember a couple of years ago how the FDA warned Americans not to buy prescription drugs from Canada because they might be "contaminated by terrorists?" I'm not making that up: That was the official announcement of an FDA spokesperson, and it was part of
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]]> Professor Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential and famous economists, as special advisor to the United Nations secretary-general. He's an expert in aid and economic development and is currently director of the Earth Institute at Columbia
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]]> NASA says it is extending the international Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years.
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]]> Go to http://www.libertariansforjustice.org to sign the Libertarians for Justice pledge. To help provide justice for the victims and to make sure - beyond a reasonable doubt - that the terrorists have been brought to justice.
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]]> Veterinarian Dr. Ravindra Murarka says he never saw such conditions in his 17 years with the agency. Murarka says he developed bronchitis after the raid and had nightmares about the cats. Linda Bruno's preliminary hearing will resume Tuesday.
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]]> A new comparison of multi-national data reveals that highly educated women have a healthier average weight than less educated women,but that the meaning of “healthier” changes according to a nation’s relative wealth.
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]]> Snow on the last day of April has placed 2008 in the record books as the fourth year since 1919 that measurable snow fell in Fairbanks on that day, according to the National Weather Service.


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]]> Forget rain, snow, sleet and dark of night, when it comes to slowing down mail dogs are a postman's worst enemy. Yesterday, Canada Post launched its 2008 Dog Awareness Campaign to shine a light on the problem, adopting the slogan, "When in doubt, get out
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]]> The future of the green movement begins with our youth. Toronto's young people work on greening projects in their schools and communities and show as much dedication and commitment to their environment as any green activist.
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]]> MOSCOW - For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.
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