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Heads start rolling in China’s melamine scandal

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Food , Health , News You may recall what happened after the melamine poisoning that caused hundreds of dogs in North America to die: The head of the State Food and Drug Administration was sentenced to death. Allowing dog food poisoning wasn’t his only crime. He’d taken bribes that allowed many more [...]

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Rubber ducky you’re the one - to track glacial melt

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: GreenTech , Climate Change As this year’s extreme Arctic ice melt puts doomsayers on high alert, NASA scientists are resorting to some highly unorthodox methods to attempt to determine what’s going on in some of Greenland’s largest ice flows — including the rubber ducky method . Sure , rubber ducky makes bath [...]

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Car free in DC

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cars and Transportation , Local , Activism It’s not too late to get out of your car today and celebrate. Yes, today is Car Free Day . It’s an international event celebrated every September 22 in which people are encouraged to get around without their car. It’s a day meant for highlighting [...]

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Car wars ‘08: McCain owns 13 cars… Obama drives a plane

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cars and Transportation , Celebrities , Polit-eco As part of an effort to portray senator John McCain as aristocratic and out-of-touch, the Obama camp has seized upon some and very ungreen information about McCain’s automotive habits: he owns 13 cars . In the scuppie bible, that kind of wanton ownership of unecessary [...]

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Make your own Halloween costume

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Home , Kids and Parenting Halloween is coming up fast. Time for the costume scramble! Instead of buying a new, manufactured costume that will most likely never be worn again, try a homemade costume made from stuff that you probably already have lying around your house. Here are a few ideas from [...]

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