Friday, May 15, 2009

Headlines below the fold


Move over, Miss California, another buxom beauty has been found:

"As one male colleague remarked, nothing has changed in 40,000 years," says Nicholas Conard, who reported the find and led the project.

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Guess if you try to dismantle the Catholic church from within and destroy it's liturgy the NYTimes gives you a pass on sexual abuse by calling it an "affair"...
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On the other hand, this review of "Angels and Demons" is a bit snarky...

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We always drink ginger tea or eat ArrozCaldo when we are sick...

Now ginger has been proven to help with nausea associated with chemotherapy.

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Venetia Phair
has died:

Venetia Phair, who was 11 years old when she suggested Pluto as the name of the newly discovered planet, has died in England. She was 90.LINK2

however, the bad news:

The International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto in 2006 to a dwarf planet -- based on the observation that Pluto was a large chunk in the Kuiper Belt of solar debris.
more about the Kuiper belt HERE

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