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Rated Sep 23 • 1 review • business, global warming • washingtonpost.com

Utility Leaving U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Climate Change
By David Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 22, 2009; 5:56 PM

From the page: "Pacific Gas and Electric, a large California utility, said Tuesday that it is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because it disagrees with the chamber's aggressive opposition to climate-change legislation.

The San Francisco-based company announced the move on its blog, Next100. The blog said utility chief executive Peter Darbee had written a letter criticizing the chamber's recent demands that the Environmental Protection Agency hold a "Scopes Monkey Trial" to prove the science behind climate change."

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Rated Sep 22 • 0 reviews • photography • flickr.com

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An Interview with Wendell Potter | The Progressive

Rated Sep 22 • 0 reviews • insurance, healthcare, public option • progressive.org

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How To Boost Value Of Alzheimers-fighting Compounds

Rated Sep 22 • 1 review • chemistry, alzheimer s • sciencedaily.com

How To Boost Value Of Alzheimer's-fighting Compounds
ScienceDaily
(Sep. 7, 2009)

From the page: "Mario Ferruzzi, a Purdue associate professor of food science; Connie Weaver, Purdue's head of foods and nutrition; and Elsa Janle, a Purdue associate professor of foods and nutrition, found that the amount of polyphenols from grapeseed extract that can reach a rat's brain is as much as 200 percent higher on the 10th consecutive day of feeding as compared to the first.

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Many previous experiments, in which absorption was measured after single or sporadic doses, often found very little, if any, of the bioactive polyphenols reaching brain tissues. However, more chronic exposure appears to improve absorption.

"This shows that reasonable and chronic consumption of these products may be the way to go, rather than single, high doses,

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Polyphenols, compounds found in the skins and seeds of grapes, are thought to prevent the formation of beta-amyloid protein, which creates the plaque in the brain that causes Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a progressive brain disease that destroys memory and cognitive skills and affects as many as 4.5 million Americans, according to the National Institute on Aging."

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Nathaniel Frank: What Can Stop the Gay-Bashing in the...

Rated Sep 22 • 1 review • ethics, gay culture • huffingtonpost.com

What Can Stop the Gay-Bashing in the Military?
Nathaniel Frank
Posted: September 22, 2009 04:43 PM

From the page: "Petty Officer Third Class Joseph Rocha, a sailor trained to work with military dogs in the Navy's anti-terrorism, force protection, and explosive detection operations, was brutalized for more than two years at his base in Bahrain after his refusal to hire a prostitute raised suspicions that he was gay. The abuse included hog-tying Rocha to a chair and pushing him, bound, into a dog kennel full of feces, as well as humiliating him by repeatedly forcing him to simulate oral sex with another man while being videotaped."

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""Don't ask, don't tell" singles out gay people as an "unacceptable risk" to the military. It is especially insidious because it makes gay people eligible to serve while simultaneously calling them a threat. It says to heterosexuals, "Gays are serving with you but they are a danger to your mission." It's no wonder many are used as a punching bag."

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The Raw Story | Al Gore praises China, Japan climate...

Rated Sep 22 • 1 review • politics, global warming • rawstory.com

From the page: "Former US vice president and environmental activist Al Gore on Tuesday hailed China and Japan for providing global leadership in tackling climate change."

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"I think that China has provided impressive leadership," Gore told reporters.

Predicting that China would take further action if global negotiations on a new treaty succeed, Gore said: "I think the glass is very much half full with China.

"It's not widely known in the rest of the world but China in each of the last two years has planted two and half times more trees than the entire rest of the world put together," he said.

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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, making his first international appearance since his center-left government took charge, confirmed to the summit that the world's second largest economy would ramp up its commitments.

He pledged that Japan would cut emissions by 25 percent by 2020 compared with the 1990 level, a goal far more ambitious than the previous government's eight percent."

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