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How the 105-mph Fastball Tests the Limits of the Human Body
A Triple-A pitcher shocked the baseball world with a pitch clocked at an insanely fast 105 mph. Here's why we won't see pitchers throw it much faster than thisever. Baseball - sport - Fastball - Pitcher - Triple-A
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After 35 Years, Unlikely Navy Caregivers Receive Recognition
The USS Kirk's rescue of 20,000 to 30,000 Vietnamese refugees in the last days of the Vietnam War is now being heralded as one of the most important humanitarian missions in the history of the U.S. Navy.
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Tony Blair Sees Gordon Brown As Autistic?
Former British Prime Minister has published a book about his time in government where, among other things, he addresses his relationship with his long time ally and rival Gordon Brown. Tony sees Gordon as handicapped in dealing with human emotion. ...
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The Human Cost of Government Waste and Fraud
There is something missing in the constant political argument about the size of the federal government. Most of the American public want federal programs when needed for disasters, national defense, medical research and the Medicare and Social Security ...
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Jerry Cope: No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure
Even as BP and US government officials continue to declare the oil spill over at Mississippi Canyon 252 and the cleanup operation an unqualified success, for the first time blood tests on sickened humans have shown signs of exposure to high levels of ...
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Downloadable Shuttle Tribute Posters
NASA has put out a collection of tribute posters to the Space Shuttle fleet that celebrates the contributions to human space flight of Columbia, Atlantis, Discovery, Challenger and Endeavour. Large versions of these posters now hang in Firing Room 4 of ...
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Five years after Katrina, its win or die
Five years after Hurrican Katrina, the human-made disaster that preceded the storm and got worse afterward continues. Taking advantage of a legacy of deregulation that flourished during the Bush years, corporate profiteers have sunk their teeth into ...
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Discovery Gunman Was Human Trafficker
Discovery Channel gunman James Lee may have called immigrants "disgusting filth" in his list of demands of the network, but he didn't apparently always feel that way: He was once arrested and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country...
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Tweak Bird: Play Heavy, Sing Pretty
"To me, living in L.A. has made me want to write songs about escape," says Tweak Bird singer/guitarist Caleb Bird. "And travel, and things larger than our existence on Earth. I think Los Angeles is a perfect city for that comparison of humans as tiny ...
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Israel Continue To Violate Right To Education In Palestine
A report by the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights shows that Palestinian students are routinely denied the right to education due to the Israeli occupation.
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More CO2 means more poison ivy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may threaten climate change and be bad news for humans but poison ivy likes it, U.S. researchers say. Climate change - Carbon dioxide - United States - ...
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'Hypocrisy: US condemns killing of Israelis': M J Rosenberg
Finally, someone who dares to question what can only be termed the obscenity of the dehumanization of non-Israeli life and of non-Israeli families. FOUR Israeli citizens, non-combatants, were murdered yesterday near Hebron.NINE HUNDRED Palestinian ...
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Speaking truth to race-hustlers
Right on: (h/t Sissy Willis via F.A.M.) And right on again, from Jerome Hudson via Human Events: Like most Americans, Ive had enough with this administrations policies. I was fed up and fired up. I am even more so in the wake of the most moving ...
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Worm brain clue to evolution
Researchers map the nervous system of worms to try and understand how the human cerebral cortex evolved.
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Progressives Against Progress
F or the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress. Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. ...
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Robots could aid rehabilitation of young patients
Plymouth University is leading a 8.3m project to develop robots that form memories and interact socially with humans.
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Bjorn Lomborg, the Not-So-Skeptical Environmental Skeptic
(Also reported on by RP Siegel here) The economist and author Bjorn Lomborg has been called the Danish doubter and compared to Adolf Hitler because of his failure to add the human element into his analysis of the climate crisis. In his books The ...
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When the World Was Young, and Human Cannibalism Wasnt Such a Big Deal | Discoblog
No dessert, caveman child, until you finish eating your human. Digging around in a Spanish cave called Gran Dolina, archaeologists have found butchered humans fossilized bones. Researchers say the bones show that cave dwellers skinned, decapitated, ...
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Musician creates bridge symphony
Nick Franglen is using London Bridge and its human traffic to create a 24-hour piece of music
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The Risky Business of Relief Work
Humanitarian work is risky businessbecause aid work itself can become a target of aggression.
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Third generation map of human genetic variation published
An international consortium today published a third-generation map of human genetic variation, called the HapMap, which includes data from an additional seven global populations, increasing the total number to 11 populations.
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Iran: Release Rights Activist; Guarantee a Fair Trial
(New York) - Iran's Judiciary should ensure that human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari receives a fair trial, Human Rights Watch said today, including full access to a lawyer, adequate time to prepare her defense, and the ability to challenge ...
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What a misanthropic bunchofstunts
Greenpeaces latest stunt in the Arctic suggests that what it really fears is human exploration and expansion.
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U.K. "Opts Out" of E.U. Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Apparently the U.K. just isn't that interested in fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery in their country. They've told the rest of Europe "no thanks" when it comes to joining a coalition to combat human trafficking across the continent. ...
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Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Morality and Raising Moral Children
If we want to learn how to have a moral inner child and/or how to raise morally healthy children, we need to consider that this has been one of the most significant aspects of human life. Morality has been waiting for a long time for psychology to ...
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Private Security Contractor Oversight and Accountability Concerns, Iraqi Refugee Needs will Persist Past President's Remarks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2010 Human Rights First Just hours before President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech marking the conclusion of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, Human Rights First is urging the administration to refocus ...
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Coach Robb Akey tries to build on success at Idaho
Former Washington State defensive coordinator Robb Akey guided the Idaho Vandals to an 8-5 season that ended with a victory in the Humanitarian Bowl.
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Cylon iMac Helmet
(Video Link)YouTube user Frensleven took an old iMac G4 and turned it into a helmet resembling a Cylon head. Presumably the implication is that Steve Jobs wishes to exterminate the human race.via technabob | Previously: Cylon Birthday Cake with ...
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Submarines Could Use New Nanotube Technology For Sonar And Stealth
Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise -- properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies. That's the ...
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9 Of The Most Valuable Minerals In The World (PHOTOS)
From rubies to painite, coltan to diamonds, nature produces incredible minerals. Whether they are made into dazzling baubles or used in rechargeable batteries, the harvesting of these natural treasures can be damaging to the environment, human health ...
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