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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume no name brand all-purpose flour because the product may contain excessively high levels of folic acid, iron, niacin, riboflavin and thiamine.
Posted 1 hour ago by Bob Ewing in Food
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For Black Frog restaurant patrons in Greenville, Maine, there used to be such a thing as a free lunch, but like most things that are supposedly free there were a few strings in this case, unattached. Read on and learn the naked truth
Posted 4 hours ago by MDee in Lifestyle
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A Cambodian couple have taken a diverse and unusual approach to the old statutory 'splitting everything in half' on separation - they have split the house - quite literally
Posted 4 hours ago by Michelle D. (PlanetJanet) in Lifestyle
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The ethics panel has found vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin guilty in a probe investigating her abuse of power to fire the Public Safety Commissioner for personal reasons.
Posted 8 hours ago by Jason Li in Politics
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Toronto's College subway station was closed on Friday night because a suspicious package has been found inside the station. People are not allowed inside.
Posted 9 hours ago by Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Crime
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Absentee ballots were mailed to 300 voters in Rensselaer County, New York with Barack Obama's last name misspelled. On the ballots, his last name is printed as "Osama". Election officials on either side say this was an honest, typographical mistake.
Posted 16 hours ago by Debra Myers (skyangel) in Politics
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Well, people are being shot on the streets (and in the trees) for supporting Obama. We’re all being flooded with negative attack ads. And we’re all fiending for screw-ups (myself included). But we have to stop it right now.
Posted 18 hours ago by G. Robert M. Miller in Politics
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Nebraska's ambiguous Baby Moses law created some problems this week when the grandparents of a teenage girl in Iowa crossed state lines and dropped the 14-year-old off at a Nebraska hospital. They wanted to teach her a lesson.
Posted 21 hours ago by Nikki W (karateblossom) in Lifestyle
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John McCain has had four bouts of malignant melanomas since 1993. This isn't the 'safe' skin cancer, melanomas kill. The last round of cancer was the 'easy' squamous cell carcinoma. Will he last four years? Can the US survive if he doesn't?
Posted 22 hours ago by KJ (momentsintime) in Politics
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Well, well, well. What a way to start the season. The Maple Leafs went into the abyss known as Detroit on the night the Red Wings raised another Stanley Cup banner to the rafters, and emerged victorious.
Posted yesterday by Navin Vaswani in Sports
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Britney Spears has got it together, made a new album and now explains it all in an exclusive documentary that is scheduled to air November 30. The girl has experienced some hurdles but the race isn't over and it looks like she is the winner.
Posted yesterday by Nikki W (karateblossom) in Entertainment
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In specific U.S. markets (below), Russell Stover Candies, Inc., is recalling one lot code of its 2 7/8 oz size of Private Reserve Assorted Chocolates because one piece of candy in the assortment may contain undeclared hazelnuts due to a labeling error.
Posted yesterday by Bob Ewing in Food
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A man was robbed as he walked along a busy highway in Warren, Michigan. He ended up receiving $30 more than the robbers "take." Who paid, well that is what the story is about.
Posted yesterday by Cynthia T. [Picasso] in Crime
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The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2008 has been awarded to French writer, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He joins such authors as Doris Lessing and Ernest Hemingway in winning the prize.
Posted yesterday by uninvitedwriter in Arts
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Former President and current UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari has been announced as this year's Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He's known for his negotiation efforts over Kosovo and Aceh.
Posted yesterday by Jason Li in World
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In light of the recent baby formula milk scandal, one thrifty Chinese man is doing his duty by selling his wife's excess breast milk online. Read this tale of frugality gone a bit amuck even if you may be lactose-intolerant.
Posted yesterday by MDee in Internet
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Not too hard to follow the logic. Surface sources do dictate upper atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. A complex, but understandable, picture is emerging of systems which distribute CO2. This is raw science, but it’s learning a lot, fast.
Posted yesterday by Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) in Environment
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I think the fact is stock markets don’t know a thing about the financial markets. Everything that needed to be done has been done. The banks have their lifelines, and the derivatives in the US are now legally controllable. But stocks keep dropping.
Posted Oct 9, 2008 by Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) in Business
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Six frozen embryos have been ordered destroyed by the Oregon Court of Appeals Wednesday after being ruled there is a contractual right to determine the fate of these embryos, since they can be treated as personal property in the case of divorce.
Posted Oct 9, 2008 by Debra Myers (skyangel) in Health
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Wednesday, it was announced that the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has banned pedicures which use tiny fish that nibbles dead skin off people's feet. There has been some health concerns that this practise could spread infections.
Posted Oct 9, 2008 by Debra Myers (skyangel) in Health
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Chris V. (cgull)
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Registered: Nov 15, 2006
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Daily thoughts of mine, the world is complex but we can make it real with insight and love.
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