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Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch [BoomTown]
It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called According to sources familiar with Facebook's platform, the social networking giant essentially denied Apple's Ping ...
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Infamous Elizabeth Lambert returns to action, but lack of controversy means few took notice
Quietly, University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert made her return to the pitch this past weekend. Unfortunately, the notoriety that followed her departure did return with her.
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Infogroup founder Gupta starts new database company
Omaha, Neb.and#8212;Vinod Gupta, who founded what became big database holding company Infogroup, and led it for 36 years before being ousted amid controversy, has started a new database company, Database101.com.
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Wayne Pacelle: New York Times Writers Speak up for Chickens, Chimps
Today, The New York Times covers two of the pitched debates in our society about animals -- reporter Dan Frosch covers the controversy over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof offers an ...
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Energy Industry Publication Defends Proposed New York Mosque
Oil and Gas Journal says strident rhetoric produced by controversy is un-American and harmful to US interests in Muslim world
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Brooklyn College Required Reading Proves Controversial
The Times has taken a look at a controversy brewing over Brooklyn College's choice to assign all incoming students to read How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (a different book is selected each year as a "common reader" ...
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US Muslims call for more protection amid mosque controversy (Roundup)
Washington- US Muslim leaders called Wednesday for more protection from law enforcement amid what they described as a wave of` Islamophobia' over plans to build an Islamic centre and mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. `We ...
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Greenpeace, Facebook & the Media Megaphone
Greenpeace, Facebook& the Media Megaphone September 1st, 2010: Rich Miller An architectural rendering of the new Facebook data center planned for Prineville, Oregon. None of the major facts have changed in the ongoing controversy in which Greenpeace ...
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Roma controversy rocks French cabinet
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, formerly a high-profile humanitarian activist, said he had considered resigning over the controversy sparked by the expulsions of Roma from France to their home countries, Bulgaria and Romania. Even Prime ...
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Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village
TOKYO (AP) - The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ...
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True Blood Stars Rally Behind "Sexiest Thing Ever"
Vampires, fairies, and werewolves stick together.Amid the controversy surrounding the most recent Rolling Stonewith a naked and bloody Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Alexander...
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Central serotonin neurons are required for arousal to CO2 [Neuroscience]
There is a long-standing controversy about the role of serotonin in sleep/wake control, with competing theories that it either promotes...
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Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
Controversy over plans to build an Islamic center near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City has put many Muslims in US on the defensive.
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At Last, We Can Ignore Iraq and Not Feel Bad About It
President Obama, in his address to the nation last night, said its time to turn the page on Americas seven-and-a-half-year war in Iraq. [Washington Post] The New York Post is fueling another Ground Zero controversy, criticizing ...
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Blog Focus: Hallucinogenic drugs in Modern Medicine and Mental Health
Distorted perceptions and an altered state of mind: two reasons why psychedelics have always attracted not only fascination, but also controversy for decades. A recent Perspective in Nature Reviews Neuroscience entitled The neurobiology of psychedelic ...
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Indigenous People and Mines in Canada
The Indigenous community in North America share many similar challenges with many citizens of the developing world. Poverty is endemic even though their territories are often rich in natural resources. Bloggers weigh in on the latest resource controversy:
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Mine rescuers spark 'good news' row
Controversy erupts over attempts to keep trapped miners' spirits up by censoring bad news in newspapers and family letters The 33 trapped Chilean miners were today delivered their first hot meals in nearly a month, as a debate broke out over how much ...
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'Buffy' still ignites controversy as Jane Espenson defends her Riley comic
There are three types of TV watchers: those who were obsessed with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," those who weren't, and those who are just now discovering it. The show created an intense attachment apparently not just among fans but...
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Nigeria kidnap bust reveals 'ex-PM son impersonator'
There is controversy in Nigeria about the identity of a man police rescued from kidnappers believing he was the son of the countrys first prime minister.
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What the Average American Thinks about MOH
In light of the controversy surrounding the ability to play as the Taliban in Electronic Arts upcoming Medal of Honor, Northern Californias Times-Herald solicited reader input on the title, in the form of letters to the editor, and listed them on ...
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Sony Pic Billboards Offer "Virgin Helpline" And Cause Nationwide Controversy
A nationwide billboard campaign asking Still A Virgin?For Help, Call 888-742-4335is creating controversyin a growing number of cities.TV news stations in Louisiana, Miami, San Diego, and Arizona have so far covered the brouhahaas local ...
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Lithium-Water Proponent Stirs Up More Debate
Today is the last day of the Month of Thinking Dangerously here at Big Think, and in that spirit, we are presenting some more dangerous ideas from bioethicist Jacob Appel. Never one to shy away from controversy, he inaugurated this month with the ...
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Jon Wertheim: Controversy abounds in women's game, starting with No. 1, more mail
Once again, I have to object to the lack of respect accorded Caroline Wozniacki. First, dinging her for being No. 2 on the basis of a lot of play is not really backed up -- if you take out her worst half dozen tournaments it has little-to-no impact on ...
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Fox News' latest election "controversy" falls apart
Fox News baselessly suggested that Democrats would attempt to "skew" the fall elections by exempting "battleground" states from a requirement that they ship ballots to overseas military personnel at least 45 days before the election. This ...
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Will U.S. Mosque Protests Stir Global Christian Attacks?
The controversy over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero may not only affect those in the U.S., but also Christians living in Muslim countries.
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Darwin's secret
Why Darwin's little-known "project" in the South Atlantic is still causing controversy today
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Miami Heat: Top Ten Reasons to Root Against the South Beach Super Team
With all the controversy swirling around the Miami Heat's off season acquisitions it seems like an appropriate time to interject a little humor. Something to liven up the mood and melodrama surrounding this whole fiasco. Perhaps it will make the ...
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Meghan McCains new book revisits 08 tensions over Palins campaign role (The Upshot)
The Upshot - Amid questions about her 2012 ambitions, Sarah Palin was plunged into some renewed controversy over her role on the 2008 GOP presidential ticket Tuesday, when John McCain's daughter Meghan launched the promotional tour for her new book, ...
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David Samel: What Lebanon Can Teach the U.S. About Religious Tolerance
In Beirut, a recent event, under-reported in the United States, provides a dramatic contrast with the New York controversy over Park51, an Islamic cultural center planned for lower Manhattan. According to Ha'aretz , Lebanon's largest Jewish synagogue ...
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Muslim leaders seek to unify community in wake of hostility, mosque controversy
Groups aim to promote dialogue, push for more engagement as anti-Muslim sentiments rise. Muslim - Islam - Religion - Religion and Spirituality - United States
Political Bias: conservative
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