Navagio, Zakynthos, Greece on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Navagio, Zakynthos, Greece
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Navagio, Zakynthos, Greece
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Lawmakers in Some States Press to Outlaw Mandatory Health...
Rated • 1 review • politics, health care • nytimes.com
In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: September 28, 2009
From the page: "In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers is pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a crucial element of the health care plans under discussion in Washington: the requirement that nearly everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty."
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America are You Ready to E-Up!? Volkswagen Thinks So. :...
Rated • 1 review • cars, electric cars • gas2.org
From the page: "Last week, Volkswagen debuted it's E-Up! electric vehicle during the Frankfurt motor show. VW has already coined its new car "The Beetle for the 21st Century." And now, according to VW, this city-sized electric vehicle concept will be Americanized and super-sized (okay, super-sized may be a slight exaggeration) for its American debut shortly after its launch in Europe in 2013."
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Fisherman at sunset on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Rated • 1 review • photography • flickr.com
Fisherman at sunset
by TBSteve on flickr.com
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Op-Ed Columnist - Cassandras of Climate - NYTimes.com
Rated • 1 review • meteorology, global warming • nytimes.com
Cassandras of Climate
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 27, 2009
From the page: "Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it."
Likewise.
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Join Team Earth - Are you in?
Rated • 1 review • activism, environment, video • youtube.com
Join Team Earth - Are you in?
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Team Earth
Rated • 2 reviews • environment, global warming, climate change • teamearth.com
Convened by Conservation International, Team Earth will unite businesses, non-profit organizations, scientists, educators, individuals and children in an international collective action campaign to address the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity.
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Droughts, melts signal climate change quickening-UN|...
Rated • 1 review • environment • reuters.com
Droughts, melts signal climate change quickening-UN
Thu Sep 24, 2009
From the page: "Droughts from Australia to the U.S. Southwest, acidic ocean water and melting glaciers are signs that the pace of climate change is surpassing the worst-case scenarios scientists predicted in 2007, a U.N. report said on Thursday.
Mountain glaciers in Asia are melting at a rate that could eventually threaten water supplies, irrigation or hydropower for 20 percent to 25 percent of the world's population, the U.N. Environment Program report said.
"We are headed to very serious changes in our planet and we need to appreciate how serious it is in order to lend support to the transformational policy measures that need to be taken," Achim Steiner, UNEP's executive director, told reporters."
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Spring River Reflections on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Spring River Reflections
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F.D.A. Admits Error in Approving Knee Device - NYTimes.com
Rated • 1 review • ethics, politics, healthcare • nytimes.com
F.D.A. Admits Error in Approving Knee Device
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: September 24, 2009
From the page: "The Food and Drug Administration admitted Thursday that it mistakenly approved a patch for injured knees last year after being pressured by members of Congress and the manufacturer.
The agency promised to re-evaluate the approval.
Internal documents demonstrate that agency's scientific reviewers repeatedly determined that the device, known as Menaflex and manufactured by ReGen Biologics Inc., was unsafe because the device often failed, forcing patients to get another operation.
But after receiving inquiries from four New Jersey legislators -- Senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg and Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Steven R. Rothman -- agency managers overruled the scientists and approved the device for sale in December."
