|  |  |  | | | | | Huffington Post | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The Boulder Office of Emergency Management issued a statement on their website this morning that they are actively monitoring the weather conditions over the Fourmile Burn Area in Boulder County due to the heavy rain showers and thunderstorms today.
The combination of rain and snow is expected to continue into the evening delivering approximately .5 to 1.5 inches of water. OEM's primary concerns are debris flows, flash flooding and erosion in the Fourmile burn area, but according to their recent Facebook page update, there is nothing of concern as of yet.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Frank Ferrante, an overweight guy with deep spiritual wounds and an enormous sense of humor, thought he was signing onto a sort of vegan life fix: 42 days of raw foods, a shot of liquefied wheatgrass every morning, exercise, weigh-ins, holistic medical exams, weekly colonics, daily affirmations. And then all of a sudden he'd be thin and happy.
But transformation isn't a technical fix. What Frank learned -- and what we learn as well as we travel the journey with him in a powerful, intensely honest documentary called May I Be Frank -- is that transformation turns you inside out.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Are you wondering what Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is up to as she prepares for a potential run for the White House? Probably not! But, as it turns out, she's had her head down in some books lately.
What sorts of books? Sadly, it's not Arthur Bernon Tourtellot's "Lexington and Concord." Nor is it Richard Ben Cramer's well-regarded "What It Takes: The Way To The White House." Rather, Bachmann is paging through two of the tawdriest, gossip-infused campaign books available.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Wishful thinkers who had expected President Barack Obama to lay out a new U.S. grand strategy for the Middle East -- the so-called Obama Doctrine -- during his much-anticipated address at the State Department on Thursday were bound to be disappointed.
That post-1945 American presidents were able to enunciate a series of U.S. "doctrines" to help mobilize support at home and abroad for American policy in the Middle East reflected a reality in which Washington -- driven by pressures of the Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- was advancing a set of core strategic goals that seemed to be aligned with U.S. interests and values.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My friend Sam Beasley taught me how to get more of what I love in life. He calls it active appreciation -- here's how he explained it to me:
Sam asked: "Do you like where you live?"
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | President Obama delivered an innovative, comprehensive, visionary speech about the Middle East, but the reactions from official Palestinian circles as well as from some of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's political allies indicate the usual total disconnect. So, how are we to interpret the speech?
One way is to engage in a detailed textual analysis, which is bound to be burdensome, hence not recommended. I venture to offer another approach, taken directly from the world of sports: let's break the part of the speech relating to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, or lack thereof, and see which side can claim more points in its favor, and then come with the final score.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RAFAH, Gaza -- I'm sitting around a table at the Rural Women's Development Society (RWDS) near the Gaza Strip's southernmost border with a group of women discussing grassroots agricultural initiatives and drinking sugary sage tea. For a second, the sound of a war plane suffocates our words. One of the center's leaders looks out the window and rolls her big brown eyes. "As I was saying," she repeats, "we are dealing with real threats here."
Threats to Palestinians living in Rafah include more than just military aggression. The population density in the city center is 10 times greater than that of the most packed residential New York neighborhoods -- and minus the high rises. Access to food is hit-or-miss, depending on meager staples allowed through Israeli border terminals, and distributed by high profile relief agencies. Unsanitary water trickles from faucets, while precious parcels of farmland are swept up by the ever-expanding buffer zone that is unilaterally defined by Israeli authorities.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  NEW YORK – Current TV executives went on the offensive Thursday, claiming that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is pushing Current Italia off the air in Italy because its U.S. counterpart hired Keith Olbermann.
Former Vice President Al Gore, who co-founded Current with Joel Hyatt in 2005, told The Guardian that News Corp. wields the "power to shut down voices that disagree with the agenda of Rupert Murdoch." Gore claimed that Current TV executives were told privately the decision to drop the Italian network from News Corp's Sky Italia satellite platform was tied to its launching a new show with the liberal cable host and Fox News critic in the U.S.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Austin Box, starting middle linebacker for Oklahoma, died on Thursday at the age of 22.
According to multiple reports, Box was found unresponsive and taken to Mercy Hospital in El Reno. He was transferred to Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, where he was pronounced dead.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Jennifer Aniston has spent nearly two decades playing the good girl, unlucky in love and eventually some guy's sweetheart. That's not exactly the character description in this new film.
Aniston stars in the ensemble comedy "Horrible Bosses," playing Charlie Day's boss: an extremely sexually aggressive dentist. Whom he wants to kill.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- Indiana Governor Mitch Daniel's office is downplaying, if not fully disregarding, a 2003 story that claims he favored requiring all Americans to purchase health service as a means of achieving universal coverage.
"Governor Daniels is against a mandate," his spokesperson, Jane Jankowski, emailed the Huffington Post on Thursday afternoon."He favors giving every American a tax credit individually so they can purchase insurance that is right for them. He believes nearly all would use it, so coverage would be nearly universal."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's no secret that current account imbalances exist around the world. In many cases, these imbalances may be benign and merely reflect market-driven differences in savings and investment, or differences in stages of development. In other cases, persistent global imbalances may be unsustainable and may threaten growth in the long run.
Thus, it's no surprise that addressing imbalances has been a key focus in recent G-20 discussions. Nor is it surprising that the World Bank and IMF are working with key partners such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Labor Organization (ILO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to provide technical inputs to help coordinate economic policy among the G-20 members.
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5/10-11/11; 600 registered voters, 4% margin of error
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  When Keira Knightley broke up with long-time boyfriend Rupert Friend last January, it was by all accounts an amicable split, borne of shifting lives and the pressures of stardom. It was a journey of philosophy, more so than any recent personal experience, then, that the Oscar-nominee made while shooting her new indie drama, "Last Night," with co-star Sam Worthington.
Knighteley plays Joanna, one half of a young married couple that, relatively happy, sees their marriage challenged by a night of temptation. She runs into an old lover, perhaps the one that got away, while her husband, played by Worthington, is on a business trip with a very attractive, very forward co-worker. The movie opens up for debate whether it's worse to cheat with your heart or your body, a topic Knighteley discussed in a new interview with Flaunt Magazine.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Scott Weiland has lived a public life filled with ups and down, struggling with addiction and alternate musical successes and failures, but as he reveals in his new memoir, difficulties began far before he became a rockstar.
In excerpts from "Not Dead & Not For Sale," published in Spin, the Stone Temple Pilots grunge rocker details his struggle with heroin, his artistic compromises and, most harrowingly, the time he was raped at just 12 years old.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  It seems to be the consensus among sane individuals that if the United States defaults on its debt, the result would be somewhere between calamitous and apocalyptic. Something on the order of "reignit[ing] the world financial crisis" or, at the very least, the economic equivalent of everyone on the planet voiding their bowels at once.
That's the sort of thing that I would recommend avoiding at all costs, but Representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) apparently doesn't feel that way. In fact, it seems as if Nunes believes that the "period of crisis" catastrophe provides is just the prescription our log-jammed legislative process needs to start functioning again. A period of crisis in America, you say? Sure! Maybe one will come up.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The FDA suggests that the average American consumes a total of 2,000 calories per day. But what if I told you that America's worst drink, in terms of nutritional information, has more calories than that? Yup. Meet all 2,010 cals of the PB&C shake from Cold Stone Creamery.
Men's Health recently named the chocolaty indulgence the "Worst Beverage in America," with more than 153 grams of sugar and 131 grams of fat. My first reaction: Wow, that's a lot of freakin' fat. My second reaction: How far is the nearest Cold Stone?! Sure, it may be the worst for you -- but the concept of smooth rich chocolate and peanut butter just sounds so delicious.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  NEW YORK -- Since President Obama's much-praised speech at Cairo University in June 2009, a lot has changed in the Middle East.
Thursday's highly anticipated speech, which Obama delivered at the State Department, reflected the recent upheaval in the region, with a renewed focus on resolving the Israeli/Palestinian stalemate and a strong commitment to advancing democratic change. Yet while Obama hailed the unrest sparked by the "Arab Spring" as a "historic opportunity," his speech also demonstrated the administration's bifurcated approach to the protests shaking the Middle East, with tough words for Syria and, in contrast, conciliatory language about the monarchy in Bahrain and the regime in Yemen.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  This weekend, you will dance. We don't care that it's "cold" outside and you don't feel like it. With great music from the 323 to the 310, you have no excuse.
Friday:
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  On the final day of her tenure as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Katie Couric looked back at some of the ways her predecessors signed off their broadcasts in the final edition of her "Notebook" web series. She mentioned Edward R. Murrow's "Goodnight and good luck," as well as Walter Cronkite's "that's the way it is," but admitted that she'd never be able to top them.
Couric, whose last show is Thursday night, also talked about being the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own.
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According to the front-page New York Times article last Monday, “Nursing Homes Seek Exemptions From Health Law,” the nation's major nursing home and home care associations are crying poor on behalf of their small-business owners who will be run out of business if they have to start covering their $10-$12 an hour employees under health care reform.
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5/15-17/11; 910 registered voters, 3% margin of error
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  From Bicycling Magazine:
From fatter wallets to smaller waistlines, more Americans than ever are discovering the benefits of cycling to work: According to the League of American Bicyclists, bike commuting in the U.S. increased 44 percent from 2000 to 2009.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  For all of you collegiettes™ getting ready to graduate, you're probably feeling a mixture of emotions. The idea of graduating and leaving the safety net known as your college bubble can be exciting, but at the same time, it's a little scary. Will you get a job? Will you stay in touch with your friends? How are you going to pay back all of those student loans? But no matter how scary the Real World may seem, there are tons of fun, little perks to look forward once you grab that much-deserved diploma. Here are HC's top 10 reasons to get pumped for life after college.
1. You'll never have to wear shower shoes again.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  This week I went over to the American Enterprise Institute to talk torture. Specifically, I was there to debate whether torture had led the United States to Osama bin Laden and if, therefore, it should once again become the policy of the United States.
Two of the other panelists -- former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former Cheney Speechwriter Mark Thiessen -- expressed support for torture. (Of course, they don't call it "torture." Torture is a federal crime. Instead, they call it "harsh questioning" and "enhanced interrogation" and "rough treatment." How could it be torture when, as one of his first official acts as Attorney General, Judge Mukasey said it was legal?) The panel was rounded out by former CIA Acting General Counsel John Rizzo and Ben Wittes of the Brookings Institution; if they have a problem with torture, they kept that to themselves. The moderator for this fair and balanced panel? John Yoo, author of the infamous Torture Memos.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- Democrats enjoyed hearing GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich rip the budget plan of fellow Republican Paul Ryan (Wis.) on Sunday so much that they're now launching a "Thanks Newt" website, signaling that they won't let the mercurial former House speaker's words die.
Gingrich, who led the House in the mid-1990s, slammed the current House Budge Committee chairman's spending blueprint as a "radical" step toward "right-wing social engineering."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  NEW YORK -- The lead investigator examining the Upper Big Branch Mine tragedy lambasted coal company Massey Energy Thursday for failing to ensure the safety of the 29 workers who died in its West Virginia mine last year.
"I don't know how you could have assembled a worse record than the record they have assembled in the last few years," Davitt McAteer, the chair of the West Virginia Governor's Independent Investigation Panel and a former federal mine safety chief, told reporters in a conference call. Regarding any safety improvements since the disaster, McAteer said, "It does not appear the culture has changed at Massey. That is most unfortunate."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Walking in LA? Well … maybe for just the circumference of an intersection. Consider Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street: It's four corners of a Hollywood hubbub peppered with at least five important things to cover -- perhaps on multiple LA Date Nights (that might even include a show at the nearby Pantages Theatre!).
Cleo: The Middle Eastern fare at less-than-a-year-old Cleo -- the attractive restaurant inside The Redbury Hotel -- is too easy to swallow. At first, it's just hummus and falafel that you might recognize, but dare your palate to go further. A dip is a must (get the Lebaneh & Feta) -- if only for the warm bread in the bag that's made fresh in Cleo's wood-burning oven. Kebabs of lamb, pork belly and shrimp are just $6, but it's worth it to go big with a roast lamb entree or a seasonal mushroom flatbread.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  New York City's ban on smoking in public parks goes into effect next week, and the folks at Ripley's Believe It Or Not! thought they'd conjured the perfect stunt to drive home an anti-smoking message -- Richie "The Human Ashtray" Magic would show the world just how gross smoking could be by extinguishing 200 cigarettes on his pain-proof tongue.
But AOL Weird News has learned that the May 23 event was abruptly cancelled after the sideshow performer admitted to AOL that he had fallen off the wagon and started smoking again.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On May 27th, in Sacramento, California, there will be a legislative forest fire. In the Appropriations committee, dozens of good bills will be considered. Most will die.
Assembly Bill 190 (Wieckowski, D-Fremont) -- our bill to fight paralysis -- must survive.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Want to live to be a thousand years old? It's not far-fetched at all if you ask theoretician and geneticist Aubrey de Grey. He believes within the next 25 years there is a 50/50 chance we'll have the technologies to extend human life indefinitely. I learned of Aubrey and his ideas in 2005 and immediately pitched the story to NBC's Today Show. They were intrigued. With the help of correspondent Kerry Sanders and the London bureau, we went out and interviewed Aubrey in a pub in Cambridge. When we finished the story we sent it in to the show. It was promptly killed. Too out there for a mainstream audience. Plus it didn't help that Aubrey looked like Methuselah.
Fast forward to 2011 and there Aubrey was in the news again. This time I pitched the story to HDNet's World Report. The program is always looking for stories that deal with interesting issues and are not widely told. This time correspondent Willem Marx met up with Aubrey in a pub in Cambridge and also went punting with him on the Thames River. For my part, I finally got to meet Aubrey at his SENS Foundation laboratory in Mountain View, California. He is tall and wiry and moves like someone with no time to lose. He lovingly strokes the beard which hangs almost to his waist. I asked him if his distinctive look helped or hurt him as he went out in the world trying to win over scientists and venture capitalists to support his work. He said it helped because people looked at him and saw a guy who is not materialistic in the least. It's very clear to them that he is not doing this to get rich.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To those locked in the power struggles between right and left, adverse court decisions are frequently lambasted as "judicial activism." When the Supreme Court struck down Washington, D.C.'s gun ban under the Second Amendment, cries of conservative "judicial activism" echoed across newspaper opinion pages. When the Court ruled that American citizens accused of terrorist crimes were entitled to certain constitutional rights, cries of liberal "judicial activism" went up.
The only thing the right and left agree on is that the judiciary should stay on the sidelines (unless the other party is in power) while the political elite fight over which faction gets to control the lives and wallets of ordinary Americans. Each side has intellectuals in universities and think tanks working toward the common goal of delegitimizing the courts and their duty to protect our liberty from the political process.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, published an editorial headlined, "Supreme Court Ruling Is Bad News For Consumers," which reflects the vast majority of the media's corporations-bad, class-actions-good, reporting. For consumers, and for the cause of justice, the Supreme Court's ruling on class action arbitration is good news. (Not great news, mind you, but good news.)
Unfortunately, the media has been drinking too much of the plaintiff's class-action-lawyer Kool-Aid. The noble idea that consumers could band together to challenge unlawful business practices and get something for their efforts has been turned upside down by the plaintiff's class action bar. Although packaged to the media and the general public as justice for consumers, class action lawyers have transformed the class action itself into yet another unfair business practice. We need look no further than California's most recent poster child for class action abuse. Plaintiffs' lawyers in the Ford Explorer SUV class action settlement were awarded $25 million in attorneys' fees by claiming that the class members were receiving a benefit of $500 million.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I read recently of a pilot project in Washington, D.C. that hopes to incentivize workers to move closer to their place of work with the offer of $12,000. The goal, of course, is to reduce the traffic and pollution associated with commuting to work, as well as improve the quality of life of those taking part. It's a laudable goal. According to research commissioned by our company, almost 78 percent of employees in our top metro areas drive solo to work every day. Anything we can do to reduce that figure is surely a step in the right direction.
This is probably not the first or only program of its kind. However, there are a number of reasons why this and other similar ones will never make a difference on a big scale. First and foremost, people who choose to live out of town do so for a reason: either they can't afford city house prices, or they prefer the (sub)urban lifestyle. $12,000 won't come close to the costs associated with living in the city center.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  After three weeks spent trying to retool the troubled production, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has made its triumphant return to Broadway. Controversial director Julie Taymor was replaced and another $5 million went towards fixing the show's disastrous high-flying effects. So how is the revamped Spider-Man?
Well, the production took a risk in casting virtual unknown Reeve Carney for the role of Spider-Man. Frankly, the jury is still out on Carney, because a mid-show malfunctioning wire caused him to fly out the back of the theater and he hasn't been seen since. Incidentally, if anyone finds him, producers ask that he be returned to the Foxwoods Theater on 43rd street. (Reeve is six feet tall with light brown hair. He kinda looks like the dude from Arcade Fire if that helps.)
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the largest looming problems in America today is the debt ceiling and the associated long- and short-term budget deals. Now that the bin Laden bogey man is at long last laid to rest, the relentless press is chomping away at President Obama's failure to make the deals on deficits. They make it sound like Obama has failed to use a president's assumed unilateral power to wave the presidential magic wand and -- presto -- produce a budget formula and make Congress -- presto -- swallow it whole. If only it were as simple as it appears to have been in FDR's time.
How easily we forget that timing is everything. And, timing is simply an art, not a science. Remember too that politics is the art of the possible.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A recent report by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce calculates that $67 billion a year less in home interest payments are being made than in early 2008. Many observers believe that this drop is primarily due to home walkaways, and that the cash freed up is largely flowing back into the consumer economy.
The hard number gives credence to what consumer advocates and reporters have been writing since 2009: a dollar not sent to Wall Street is a dollar to be spent on Main Street.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- News Corporation's board of directors recently unveiled a new policy of annually disclosing all the company's political donations. But a coalition of campaign finance and media watchdog groups, as well as the head of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a Jewish charity that owns shares in News Corp., say the new policy does not go far enough.
"The revised policy acknowledges the importance of the issue to shareholders and the need for reform in News Corp.'s practices," said Lance E. Lindblom, president of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. "While we welcome these changes as a crucial first step in the right direction for News Corp., the new policy does not go far enough. The Board must provide oversight and complete transparency of the political spending process going forward."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In response to the urgent situation in Tunisia and its coming participation to the G8 meeting to be held next week in France, I met with many of my peers from around the world to discuss what needed to be done by the international community to help save Tunisia.
Together with Jacques Attali, PlanetFinance; Christian de Boissieu, Université Paris-I; François Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics; Daniel Cohen, ENS; Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Sciences Po; Eiji Hattori, Reitaku University; Toshio KOIKE, Tokyo University; Rainer Klump, Centre of European Integration and International Economics; Wolfgang Koenig, Goethe Universtät; Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Université Paris-Dauphine; Stefano Micossi, College of Europe; El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Dauphine; Olivier Pastré, IMBank; Richard Portes, London School of Economics; Jean-Louis Reiffers, Université du Sud; Helene Rey, London Business School; Nouriel Roubini, New York University; Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University; Motoyuki Suzuki, Tokyo University; and Klaus F. Zimmermann, Bonn University, we came to the conclusion that without the immediate and sizable help from the international community, Tunisia will not survive. Since then, we've been circulating the below open letter to the G8 Ministers.
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Illinois. Indiana. Michigan. Minnesota. Ohio. Wisconsin. Political
news coming out of these Midwest states has dominated recent national
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  As the years go by Woody Allen's muses remain young and beautiful, and they are featured in a gorgeous spread in the new W. The director told the magazine how he quietly selects his leading ladies.
"Casting is so awkward," he said. "I'm too shy to meet them. I have the women come in and I don't let them sit down. I make up some questions, but I couldn't care less about chatting. I only see them to make sure that they haven't gained 200 pounds or had five face jobs. I want to see that the woman I saw on the DVD is still intact."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Aaron Krane is your typical sports fan. Well, sort of. He is also trying to transform the way his fellow fans engage with the sporting universe.
In the last few months, his company, Hitpost, has become a nationwide sensation for sports fans, providing them with a "personalized and very real time application," in Krane's words, to access sports across the country from any platform, anywhere.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Crossposted with TomDispatch.com
One day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old American Muslim (“with a dark complexion”) who had once worked as an investment banker in the World Trade Center, board his plane at San Francisco National Airport. According to Northwest’s gate agents, Chowdhury writes in the Washington Post, “he thought my name sounded suspicious” even though “airport security and the FBI verified that I posed no threat.” He sued.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Wednesday morning, Esquire's Mark Warren published an item on the magazine's politics blog that asserted that Jerome Corsi's loony-book, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" was being pulled from bookstore shelves and was on its way to being pulped. Along the way, the item alleged that Corsi was in a row with WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah over the matter.
As you may know already, the item was a satiric fake. A good one, too -- had I not thought to check the provenance of the title of a Corsi book that Warren presented as real, "Capricorn One: NASA, JFK, and the Great 'Moon Landing' Cover-Up," I might have easily fallen for it as well. But it was good enough to fool many, and by the end of the day, Esquire got to enjoy a lot of people sputtering in rage over the dupe, including a hilarious insinuation from Farah that he was exploring a legal remedy.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Products designed for newborns, babies and toddlers -- including car seats, breastfeeding pillows, changing pads, crib wedges, bassinet mattresses and other items made with polyurethane foam -- contain multiple toxic chemical flame retardants, according to a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed study published today in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.
Halogenated flame retardants -- considered some of the most dangerous chemicals on the market -- are persistent in the environment and bio-accumulate in people and wildlife. Adverse impacts of these chemicals can include mutagenic damage to DNA, cancer, neurological toxicity, reproductive toxicity, developmental toxicity and immune system damage, among others, according to Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. "These are the worst kind of chemicals, and they are a potent symbol of the complete breakdown in chemical management in this country," says Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families director Andy Igrejas. "You bring them into your home hidden in consumer products that seem benign. But they get out of products and into your bloodstream, where they begin to damage your health."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The teens in the Legendary Shots group aren't the first ones in history to chuck basketballs at hoops from obscure places. But they may be the first to construct a catapult that can hit a shots that would even make Luol Deng look like he's doing layups.
The group shot their way into internet stardom when they posted a series of unlikely shots to YouTube, draining jumpers from a high-speed roller coaster, a hot air balloon, and a series of rooftops, monuments and places that have probably never seen a basketball.
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Tony Parker doesn't sound very optimistic about the 
