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POPSMaking an Arguement for Misspelling Love the title of this article. "Most teachers expect to correct their students' spelling mistakes once in a while. But Ken Smith has had enough. The senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England, sees so many misspellings in papers submitted by first-year students that he says we'd be better off letting the perpetrators off the hook and doing away with certain spelling rules altogether."
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POPSThe Freedom Index To learn how any representative or senator voted on the key measures described herein, look him or her up in the vote charts. The scores are derived by dividing a congressman’s constitutional votes (pluses) by the total number he cast (pluses and minuses) and multiplying by 100.
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POPSIL MARE vs THE LAKE HOUSE American remake of a great Korean movie. Starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. It's about two people that start getting to know each other through sending snailmail to a mailbox. Except they're both in different timelines...
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POPSLet Them Eat Rice: Washington's Unedifying Ethanol Food Fight And what about the impact of the Chinese livestock and meat complex, alluded to by Senator Grassley? According to China expert, Darrell Ray, Director of the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, "China has not been importing corn to grow her livestock industry. China continues to export more corn that she imports. With regard to grains, China has been taking care of China as if it were a planet on to its own, completely independent of what is happening elsewhere. . . .To attribute today's international grain prices to China essentially assumes that beginning two years ago the market decided there may be a need for China to become a net importer of some corn in the future, say 2012, and so bid-up the price of corn by double." As this "let them eat rice" soundbite made clear, the debate over the food versus fuel issue is about as undignified as a full out real food fight at a summer camp cafeteria.
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POPSKeyboards for Geeks @ 14 Why would I want somone tapping like a mad man on my breasts! and how the hell can I use it!
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POPSSamara O'Shea Why does this girl not have an rss feed for just her blogs? There's a wealth of material here, all of it good. the feed icon gets you the rest of the blogs but not hers. /pout
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POPSFBI Obstructs Justice: Uncovering the Anthrax Cover-Up Who benefited most from the anthrax letters, that targeted very specific people in Congress (Democrats Leahy and Daschle) and Media (including Tom Brokaw and Robert Stevens)? Was it Bruce Ivins--really? The FBI claims his motive was profit from a vaccine to cure anthrax, but we see no evidence that he ever produced it. We do find more credible motive elsewhere, and that the FBI wants to close this investigation, based upon his "suicide", is an attempt to put him on trial in his death, and in his absence! Never has there been a more flagrant public crime with more injustice in the investigation and "conclusion", nor more international and governmental actions as a consequence (i.e. wars and legislation), if this is it. The FBI is aiding and abetting a cover-up, which is obstruction of justice, which they were told to do from the beginning.
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POPSSpelling "turely atrosious," says academic i'd like to point out that the words "weird, seize, leisure, foreign and neighbor" that they used as examples all have i AFTER e, and no c in them. so that example of the rhyme was kind of... not... right.
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POPSNeurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement "We might find that motion processing centers of the visual cortex are more interconnected with auditory brain regions than previously thought, even in the 'normal' brain," Saenz says. "At this point, very little is known about how the auditory and visual processing systems of the brain work together. Understanding this interaction is important because in normal experience, our senses work together all the time."