Warned the Director of Water Babil province Engineer Saad Abdul-Amir Al-Hilla River pollution oily spots, said it had begun to affect the drinking water may be carcinogenic, demanding the Iraqi government to intervene to deal with pollution.
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]]> Free prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's Hospital.
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]]> Some bacteria may help protect against the development of a type of esophageal cancer, known as adenocarcinoma, according to a new review of the medical literature.
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]]> The NYPD officer who gave the command to Taser psychiatric patient, Inman Morales, is dead. Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, police Lt. Michael Pigott shot himself with a 9-millimeter Glock. Fellow officers report that Pigott had been “torn up” sin
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]]> Recent figures from the HEALTHY Study, a nationwide effort led by Temple University to curb obesity and type 2 diabetes in middle school students, found vending machines beverages had added sugars, high calorie 100 percent fruit juices.
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]]> As the world's oceans become more acidic, the underwater sounds that whales and other marine mammals depend on for survival may turn into a confusing racket, a new study says.
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]]> If you go to Purina cat chow's web site & take a test on your knowledge of breast cancer they will donate $1. to the Susan G. Komen foundation. The questions are not difficult & you keep going until you guess right. [Only 5 questions!]
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]]> Rocket fuel toxin has tainted drinking water in 26 states, pregnant women & newborns at greatest risk. Defense Dep & Pentagon contractors lobbied 6 yrs to avoid fed drinking-water standard for perchlorate. >10 million have rocket fuel in drinking H2O...
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]]> The following unedited responses to our questions provide an opportunity for you to learn more about their policies and plans on the environment.
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]]> It's plain that the current financial crisis is worsening in spite of--or perhaps because of--the Treasury rescue plan.
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]]> GOP mailing fake absentee ballots with bogus return addresses to Dem voters..GOP legislators ve blocked distribution of paper ballots. Subpoena for shadowy GOP operative/IT specialist re vote count shifts from Kerry to George W..Rove voters rights lawsuit
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]]> Not only do purple carrots contain all of the phytochemicals found in orange carrots, they also contain anthocyanins, potent antioxidants.
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]]> In a relationship, the long standing norm has been that the relationship favors both parties equally. The symbiotic nature of such relationship makes it a long lasting one because of its intrinsic fairness. On the contrary, the relationship between man a
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]]> The House on Friday passed a measure by 418-0 clarifying that images obtained over the Internet are subject to federal interstate commerce laws. The bill was in response to a federal court ruling that prosecutors must show that images kept on a computer h
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]]> Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law Sunday that would help young prostitutes. The legislation decriminalizes the actions of minors involved in the sex trade. Instead of punishing them, they would be treated as victims.
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]]> I am appalled to learn that the proposed bailout bill that the House will vote on today contains new tax breaks for Big Oil for producing oil from dirty tar sands and coal to liquids technology.
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]]> SEATTLE – For the first time in 15 years, Woodland Park Zoo is celebrating the birth of endangered ocelots.

Two kittens were born on Sept. 23 -- the first offspring for 7-year-old mother Bella and 12-year-old father Brazil.

The gender of the kitte
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]]> What changes take place in the real world to cause the crisis? Nothing, necessarily. The crisis is usually caused by changes in the make-believe world of financial capitalism.
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]]> Global warming could devastate the world's food production, displace millions of people, and decimate biodiversity. Can we stop such a catastrophe?
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]]> The House votes Friday on the revised bill with all those pork-barrel add-ons. DISGUSTING performance by the senate, with constituent phone calls, emails and faxes running 100-1 against this bill.
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]]> The Kindness Ranch near Wheatland, Wyoming offers love and hope to animals that spent their lives in labs. Read about this extraordinary place that rehabilitates these former "experiments." Lots of wonderful pictures, a donation page and they take guests!
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]]> Thank you for contacting PETA about the “PETA Kills Animals” campaign.
This campaign is the work of the deceitfully-named Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group for Philip Morris...

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]]> "Mugabe wants to swallow the MDC. We will not allow that. He wants...finance, home affairs, defence, information, foreign affairs, justice, even women & youth," says MDC spokesman. Zimbabwe has no govt since parliament dissolved in January. Plan flawed...
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]]> The CIA'S former 3rd-ranked administrator Kyle Foggo pleaded guilty to 1 count of wife fraud & had 27 other charges against him dismissed in the US Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Read the story to find out how he got away with a 3 year sentence.
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]]> Wed Sept 24, right in middle of WallSt bailout fight, House passed $612b defense bill by 392-39 vote without a murmur of public protest or any meaningful press comment (NYTimes- 3 short paragraphs buried in story about another appropriations bill)
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]]> When Rudolph Diesel produced his engine in 1896, he'd assumed it would run off of vegetable and seed oils, especially hemp, which is superior to petroleum. A fuel that can be grown by our farmers that is superior to foreign oil.
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]]> Court Reverses Bush Decision to Strip Protection From Wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan--Three Arctic Seal Species Advance Toward
Endangered Species Act Protection;
Ringed, Bearded, and Spotted Seals Threatened by Global Warming

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]]> Our recent investigation into one of these contract facilities identified two major producers of dog and cat food—the Iams Company and Menu Foods, Ltd.—that paid others to do their dirty work. Still, there were others lurking in the shadows of this facili
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]]> The Iams dogs in this scene have just had large chunks of muscle cut from their thighs and have been placed on the laboratory floor to recover from the effects of the anesthetics. Some of the dogs are unconscious, while others are awake and trying to righ
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]]> The essential oil of Origanum vulgare was one of 5 oils that showed maximum inhibitory activity against Candida albicans after 7 days.
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]]> As your constituent, I believe Congress must slow down, proceed carefully and incorporate consumer safeguards in any financial bailout plan, including a cap on credit card and mortgage interest rates, public equity in firms receiving bailout funds, and
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]]> Attack on Mothers
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The poisonous public attacks on Katie Wright after revealing that her autistic son recovered significant function after chelation treatments
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]]> Lawsuit Alleges Vaccine Caused Autism in Children.Lawyers representing some 5,000 parents of autistic children began making their case that the makers of vaccines administered
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]]> A time-lapse journey through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean on board a cruise ship.
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]]> Whether you're dealing with copyright or disabilities, the best way to protect yourself is to be informed. Be sure that you've brushed up on these important issues. This is an useful article for all librarians.
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]]> Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index has fallen almost 5% in early trading, hours after a US financial rescue plan failed to gain Congressional backing.
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]]> As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin...
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]]> What more important info needed to elect president other than his fitness for office? Yet an ad calling attention to McCain's skin cancer & the need for more info re his medical records has not been run: CNN refused, Fox called it shameful & MSNBC...
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]]> In a two-year multicenter study led by University of Utah doctors, the dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate performed no better than placebo in slowing the rate of cartilage loss in the knees of osteoarthritis patients.
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]]> Canadian judge rules against deportation of outspoken anti-Iraq war resister
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]]> Can you tell Congress to end tax breaks for Big Oil and invest in clean energy? Click here to visit PaidForByBigOil.com and sign the petition.
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]]> When a politician says something, the assumption is that it adheres, however loosely or distantly or illogically, to the truth. This week has shown that assumption to be hopelessly naive.


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]]> PLEASE LET THE D.A. KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THE OC SHELTER HOLDING "PHOENIX" UNTIL IT WAS TO LATE TO HELP SAVE HIS LIFE! Critter Crossings Rescue offered to take this little baby into rescue the day he was brought into the shelter but was told "NO"
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