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Well, it finally happened. Partial birth abortion has finally been outlawed. In his speech, President Bush said during the signing cerimony yesterday, “In the course of the congressional debate, the facts became clear. Each year, thousands of partial birth abortions are committed. As Doctor C. Everett Koop, the pediatrician and former Surgeon General has pointed […]

I’ve been hearing a lot about Presidential candidate Howard Dean’s comments about trucks with confederate battle flags in them and such, so I figured I’d go over to his website and see what he has to say about it, since I’ve been known to fly that flag at times.
His November 1st Press Release says that […]

Thanks to an enzyme in a micro-organism found at a volcanic vent on Antarctica’s Mt Erebus, researchers at New Zealand’s Auckland and Waikato Universities and Australia’s Macquarie University have found a way to decrease the time it takes to test DNA. For example, in traditional methods of DNA testing there are 20 steps to extract […]

While reading Keith Devens blog I found a post on the wiki about a site called friendster. If I understand it correctly you join and then invite all your friends to join and they invite all their friends to join and so on and so forth. The end result being a web of people who […]

Over the last week several cable channels (travel, history, etc.) have been showing programs about ghosts. The night before last I saw one which featured different people from around the USA who tried to ’study’ ghosts in their own little way. Among others, one pair of ladies used a tape recorder and some computer equipment […]