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Why bananas are a parable for our times http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/364179_bananaonline23.html?source=mypi JOHANN HARI Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: Bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed...

50 Cent's Long Island Home Burned Down In 'Suspicious' Fire By Chris Georg 20:55, May 30th 2008 Rapper 50 Cent's $2.4 million Long Island home, in which his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and the former couple's son lived rent-free, burned down last night after a "suspicious" fire broke...

Charming Chavez gives ‘media terrorists’ a closer look Note to Readers: Buffalo News Editor Margaret Sullivan spent last week in Venezuela as part of a fact-finding delegation from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Margaret Sullivan / Letter from Venezuela Updated: 05/18/08 6:33 AM...

By Jeremy McDermott BBC News, Medellin Marulanda led the Farc from its formation until his death The legendary leader and founder of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) is dead. Can the Colombian rebels, who have never been without the leadership of "Manuel Marulanda"...

Nepal's lawmakers abolish the country's monarchy By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press Writer KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's lawmakers abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic Wednesday, ending 239 years of royal rule in the Himalayan nation. The newly elected assembly, led...

MTV has posted a trailer for CHOKE. This one's from actor-turning-writer/director Clark Gregg (IRON MAN, IN THE LAND OF WOMEN, TV's THE WEST WING) & is adapted from a novel by FIGHT CLUB author Chuck Palahniuk. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=235956

10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help Dude that wrote this book was on the radio this morning I didn't have a chance to listen much or call in because I had to be at work. Thought I'd move the discussion here. What are your reactions to his list? I don't know...

Director and actor Sydney Pollack dies at 73 May 27, 4:00 AM (ET) By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON (AP) In this Sept. 25, 2006 file photo, Sydney Pollack arrives to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera... LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director who collaborated with a...

As health costs shoot into the stratosphere, the U.S. has turned to Canada for a steady supply of low-cost drugs and medical care. Overall, medical tourism -- in which U.S. citizens travel to other countries simply for cheap care -- doubled over the course of one year (from 2006-2007). The Key...

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_he_me/absorbed_twin;_ylt=Ag4_nn2qT7NproxPNW5Jmp6s0NUE ATHENS, Greece - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin...

Every Steelers fan in the whole damn state of Penn. is gunna vote for this guy come re-election ------------------------------------------------------------- Specter’s Floor Statement on New England Patriots Videotaping...

Copyright 2008 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved Time May 12, 2008 U.S. Edition THE WELL; Campaign '08, Ickes; Pg. 34 Vol. 171 No. 19 1630 words The Man Who Wrote The Rules James Carney Harold Ickes has toiled for insurgent Democrats since Eugene McCarthy in 1968. Now he's...

I was using NOD 32, but my free trial ran out and now they require a password/username so I can't just reinstall every 30 days. I downloaded AVG as a replacement, but it uses up too much available memory on my computer and slows things down tremendously. Any suggestions? Free is the key.

Characters General Hawk Destro Ripcord Breaker Heavy Duty Baroness Scarlett Snake Eyes Storm Shadow

Obviously shits on the likes of Punisher, Elektra, and Ghost Rider. And still better than any of the X-men, Fantastic 4, or Spiderman. Rivaled only by Batman and Sin City for best comic to movie adaptation of all. Adult themes, good level of violence, good action, great special effects, very...

And grow a set of balls. US west coast dockworkers in 1-day strike 'over Iraq': union LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Around 25,000 workers at 29 ports along the western US coastline went on strike on Thursday to demand an end to the war in Iraq, union officials said. The International Longshore and...

Richard Koman, newsfactor.com Wed Apr 30, 4:38 PM ET A federal court has dealt a body blow to the recording industry's efforts to sue people who use peer-to-peer software to download music from the Internet. In fact, says one copyright lawyer, the P2P decision could mean the end of the...

Never heard of this chick till I saw her on Colbert. Wasn't too bad. Anyone like?

Help from Hugo Chavez: Free Heating Oil for Needy U.S. Families by Vicki Ekstrom, Special to Stateline.org April 14, 2008 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/797/heating-oil-chavez-venezuela Close to 200,000 poor families in 15 cold-weather states -- in every Northeastern state except New Hampshire --...

The women at work were just raving about these piles of mess and I wanted to puke. Famous Bowls = beginning of the end of civilization