SAN DIEGO – Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer%u2019s and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican’s mind different from a Democrat’s.

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Researchers have estimated that as many as 100,000 more Iraqis — many of them women and children — died since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq than would have been expected otherwise, based on the death rate before the war….the Defense Department maintains a fleet of 71 Lear jets, 13 Gulfstream IIIs and 17 Cessna Citation luxury jets. That’s in case any of the brass wish to visit the military’s ski resort in the Bavarian Alps or any of the 234 military golf courses around the world. The secretary of defense, of course, has his own private Boeing 757

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Another story ignored by US Media.

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Now, contact lenses that deliver drugs — I thought this was interesting.

By varying the water content of the original mix, the team can vary the size of the channels, and so control the rate at which the drug leaks out onto the eye. The nanostructure of the new lenses, with the inter-connected channels, allows gases, salts and nutrients to readily diffuse across, Chow said.

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Podcasting is epitomized by geek central news

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I’m sure everyone is now familiar with the discovery of these strange small people. Or at least their heads. It gets weirder.

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Global dimming? Or Light pollution reduction?

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My readers know that I’m a fan of wacky art cars. Did you know that this Nov. 6th is World Art Car Day? Don’t miss it! Details at the art car museum and other websites.

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Red Wine does everthing!!

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The local police, at the Secret Service’s behest, set up a “designated free-speech zone” on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush’s speech

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The Singer Sinéad O’Connor has taken out a full-page advertisement in an Irish national newspaper to complain that she should not be “called crazy”.

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Them crazy Russians. Key words: “almost certainly.” What does that mean? This story almost makes zero sense because we’ve always known the Russians had been supplying weapons to Iraq. Who built the Scuds, after all? Sounds like a weird Red Herring dreamed up by the pro-Bush Washington Times.

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The attacker, an unidentified man in his twenties and dressed as a beggar, threw hand grenades at the unnamed foreigners, and then detonated the rest hand grenades strapped around his waist, causing serious wounds to pedestrians on the site and two vehicle sparked in front of a souvenir shop.

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pic of the week

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thoughts on the victory

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