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NASA Science News for June 2, 2004 The 2004 Transit of Venus will be visible from eastern parts of North America at sunrise on June 8th. FULL STORY at <<"http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/02jun_viewersguide.htm?list833855";>> For more information about space and space exploration, visit ou

Re: Southern-ness test

> Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanksgiving is not complete without cornbread > > > dressing and barbeque is made from beef! > > Uhm, I'm not _that_ Southern...my mom being a > >Yankee,

Re: ShrubCo's High Moral Ground: Lifting Sanctions / Arms Embargo from Sudan

> The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://demagogue.blogspot.com/2004_05_16_demagogue_archive.html#108497626263713774 > Secretary of State Colin Powell removed Sudan from a > list of countries > that cannot receive U.S. arms because they have > failed to cooperate with > the U.S. on internati

Re: Instant Cocoa

Deborah Harrell wrote: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: But to use pure cream...now *that's* decadent. It's not decadent. It is just a very nice way to totally spoil yourself rotten after a miserable day. The only problem with this kind of very good c

Re: Archbishop Chaput of Denver

Julia Thompson wrote: I'm not really familiar with Erasmus. Nutshell description? URL to something I could read in a reasonable period of time? Book recommendation which I might get to sometime in the next 10 years? Thanks! He's famous here even a university is named after him and almost eve

Re: Archbishop Chaput of Denver

> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > Julia Thompson wrote: > >I'm not really familiar with Erasmus. Nutshell > description? URL to > >something I could read in a reasonable period of > time? Book > >recommendation which I might get to sometime in the > next 10 years? > He's famous here eve

Local town demolished by armored bulldozer

No, this is *not* a joke - although it sounds like something that SNL would come up with. http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=f707b6ba-0abe-421a-00ce-4184cbc9b692&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf http://makeashorterlink.com/?T63A22088 "GRANBY - The Colorado

Cats, cats, cats!

First, a sincere thanks to all who posted nice words after the death of Friday, our cat. The good news is we adopted 2 new kittens! My wife went to the web site of the shelter from whom we adopted our remaining cat, Seti, an Abyssinian, and saw a very cute Maine Coon kitten. So we decided to hea

Useful Military Warnings

'Useful' Military Warnings "Aim towards the enemy." - Instruction printed on U.S. rocket launcher "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend." - U.S. Army magazine "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - U.S.A

ShrubFuehrerCo: Authority to Set Aside the Laws is "Inherent In The President."

<> Presidential Powers The Wall Street Journal has a long front-page story today that demolishes a few more pathetic fragments of the Abu Ghraib cover up - this time by tracing the cover-your-ass legal trail directly to Donald Rumsfeld. Unfortunately, th

Re: Cats, cats, cats!

> "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The good news is we adopted 2 new kittens! My wife > went to the web > site of the shelter from whom we adopted our > remaining cat, Seti, an > Abyssinian, and saw a very cute Maine Coon kitten. > We found the kitten adorable but > were also take

NPR

This article is long, but is extremely well worth it - especially along the lines of the long-running NPR discussions here. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/184u adtr.asp The overall theme of the article is the basic truism that economics are inescapable - eve

Air pollution and mutant mice

The paper abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15143280 "Urban and industrial air pollution can cause elevated heritable mutation rates in birds and rodents. The relative importance of airborne particulate matter versus gas-phase sub

Unidentified creature stumps experts

Wait! It's a ... : Unidentified creature stumps experts "What in the world?" Bill Kurdian asked himself when he saw the animal for the first time. About the size of a fox, but with short brown hair and a long cat-like tail, it looked more like an animal in a National Geographic spread out o

Metabolism, Lifespan, Efficiency, and mtDNA

<> Could mice hold the secret to longer life? Scientists from the University of Aberdeen, the Aberdeen-based Rowett Research Institute and the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge have made a major breakthrough in understand

Re: Thank you!

A rpm updated this facility for security reasons ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Unidentified creature stumps experts

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:21:26 -0400, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wait! It's a ... : Unidentified creature stumps experts > > "What in the world?" Bill Kurdian asked himself when he saw the animal > for the first time. > > About the size of a fox, but with short brown hair and a long ca

Re: NPR

iaamoac wrote: > > This article is long, but is extremely well worth it - especially > along the lines of the long-running NPR discussions here. > > > http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/184u > adtr.asp Or http://tinyurl.com/ytgsy :) Julia ___

Re: Useful Military Warnings

And some people think "military intelligence" is a contradiction in terms . . . At 05:08 PM 6/7/04, Gary Nunn wrote: 'Useful' Military Warnings "Aim towards the enemy." - Instruction printed on U.S. rocket launcher "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend." - U.S. Army magazine "Cl

Re: NPR

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:48:38 -, iaamoac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This article is long, but is extremely well worth it - especially > along the lines of the long-running NPR discussions here. > > http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/184u > adtr.asp > > The o

Re: Cats, cats, cats!

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The good news is we adopted 2 new kittens! My wife > > went to the web > > site of the shelter from whom we adopted our > > remaining cat, Seti, an > > Abyssinian,