Monday, January 28, 2008

BREVITAS


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HEALTH & SCIENCE

PRESSWATCH - Eating chocolate could give you weaker bones Eating large
amounts of chocolate could lead to weaker bones and a greater chance of
suffering a fracture, according to a study. Women who ate chocolate
every day were found to have less dense bones than women who ate it less
than once a week, the study published in The Lancet found.

http://www.presswatch.com/health/#2

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OUTLYING PRECINCTS

ALAN GREENBLATT, GOVERNING - Over the last 30 years -- which is
essentially the only relevant period for this question anyway -- 27
states have elected women [as governor and/or senator]. Throw in the
District of Columbia, where Sharon Pratt Kelly was elected mayor in
1990, and you're talking a total of 342 electoral votes. That's
certainly more than enough to carry the presidential contest. The
electoral vote rich swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, however, have
yet to elect a woman to one of these offices. African Americans,
needless to say, have not fared as well. Only Massachusetts and Virginia
have elected African American governors and only Massachusetts and
Illinois have elected black senators.

http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2008/01/one-way-to-look.html

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FURTHERMORE . . .

NEWSMAX - David Nasser, executive director of Wal-Mart Watch and a
critic of the company, told ABC News: "We respectfully disagree with
former President Clinton's characterization of Wal-Mart as a benign,
benevolent corporation striving for self-improvement either during Sen.
Clinton's tenure on the board or at present. Wal-Mart has made no
meaningful progress regarding the company's poor business practices,
including gender discrimination, low wages, inadequate health care,
overseas sourcing or environmental degradation."

http://newsmax.com

BBC - Harley is an African grey parrot like this one A parrot who never
stopped chattering lost his voice after four days' freedom in the wilds
of Cambridgeshire. Harley, an African Grey, used to call his owners
"Mum" and "Dad", could recite his telephone number and was never lost
for words. But after four days in the wild he appears to have lost his
tongue and has returned traumatized, skinny and mute. Owner Cedric
Tunnel, 66, of Littleport, said: "Wild birds bully him and won't let him
get to any food."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7208610.stm

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READER COMMENTS
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HOW TO STIMULATE AN ECONOMY

- The American Monetary Institute has such a proposal ready to
implement. It calls for immediate investment in our ailing
infrastructure as a means to create jobs and necessary money without
over-inflating the dollar. You can read more about it at
http:www.monetary.org - Lars

- The expression has been verboten for almost 30 years - but I'll use
it: Economic planning. What better time to shout it from the rooftops
than now, when there is an obvious bi-partisan agreement on the need for
one of the largest stimulus packages in recent American history.

Remember how, in 1993, as Clinton came into office, a stimulus package -
very modest in size, about $30 billion, as I remember - was nixed by
Clinton's own closest Wall-Street-beholden advisors?

But now that the fates of massively, recklessly unmanageable global
Wall Street combine of big money center banks, brokerages, hedge funds,
and investment banks are in the balance, a large stimulus package needs
no forcing on our out-of-touch elite: there were smiles all around in
the photo-op picture of the politicians announcing the 2008 stimulus
package.

Sooner rather than later, Americans will have to become acclimated to an
economics which asks "in what direction?" when we are told that "the
economy" needs to grow. Nations such as Sweden - admittedly very
different in scale in regard to their notions of government advocacy and
in the size of their economies - have mostly resolved the recurrent
problems of boom and bust engendered innately by the workings of a
capitalist economy.

THE HIDDEN POWER OF THE MORMONS

- the name 'Mitt' is short for Marriott. And the Dean of Harvard
Business School, who like Mitt Romney, was a Mormon bishop, is now
president of Brigham Young University, Idaho.

JOHN EDWARDS ON THE LETTERMAN SHOW

- I notice Edwards did not say he'd pardon all nonviolent drug
offenders, bring US troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, nor did he
mention closing overseas US bases. Ron Paul has repeatedly promised
these advances towards peace in the world.

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