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government gets tough on smoking

House approves tough tobacco bill

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The US House of Representatives has backed a bill introducing tough new curbs on the tobacco industry.

The House passed the bill by 307-97, a day after it was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate. It now goes to President Obama to be signed into law.

The bill gives the US Food and Drug Administration strong powers to regulate the content and marketing of tobacco products.

Miss California Carrie Prejean Loses Her Crown

NICE CHRISTIAN GIRL?

Thursday, June 11, 2009
By Hollie McKay  FOX NEWS

 Less than a month after being told by Donald Trump that she can keep her Miss California crown, Carrie Prejean was fired on Wednesday.In a release first obtained by FOXNews.com, K2 Productions, the independent producers of the Miss California USA pageant, under license from Miss Universe, cited continued breach of contract issues as the reason for Prejean’s firing.

Chastity Bono announces sex change

CHASTITY BONO (AP Photo/Susan Sterner, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chastity Bono is having a sex change to become a man. A spokesman for Bono, born a girl to Sonny and Cher, says he “has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity” and began the sex-change process earlier this year. Publicist Howard Bragman said Bono is proud of his decision and hopes “that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue.”

The 40-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star came out as gay 20 years ago, Bragman said.

For American Extremists, it’s a Thin Line Between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech

(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) F.B.I. investigators examining a bullet-riddled door at the entrance of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, where a gunman entered the building and shot and killed a security guard.

June 11, 2009, 12:29 pm The New York Times Online OPINION section

Hate Crimes and Extremist Politics

By The Editors

Updated, June 11, 2:30 p.m. | The 88-year-old white supremacist, James von Brunn, has been charged with murder in the killing the security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday.

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The killing of George Tiller, the abortion doctor in Wichita, Kan., and the attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington yesterday have raised questions yet again about the role that extremist propaganda sites play in inciting violence among some militant believers. In both cases, the suspect arrested was well-known among fringe “communities” on the Web.

Most legal scholars and many experts on extremist violence in the U.S. oppose reining in of such sites, or restrictions on extremist speech generally. Should the United States consider tighter restrictions on hate speech? In the meantime, how should law enforcement agencies respond?

‘Bush War Crimes’ – reading makes a country great

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Newton slept on it. The next day he came up with the formula for…

…the Law of Universal Gravitation:

If F is the force due to gravity, g the acceleration due to gravity, G the Universal Gravitational Constant (6.67×10^-11 N^.m²/kg²), m the mass and r the distance between two objects. Then

F = G m₁ m₂ / r^{2      ! ! !}

okay, maybe that’s not how it happened. but on to our health post for the week. it’s about my dog mack’s favorite activity: sleeping.

Problems are solved by sleeping

Sleep is important for assimilating new information

Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it, say scientists who found a dreamy nap boosts creative powers.

They tested whether “incubating” a problem allowed a flash of insight, and found it did, especially when people entered a phase of sleep known as REM.

Volunteers who had entered REM or rapid eye movement sleep – when most dreams occur – were then better able to solve a new problem with lateral thinking.

Beware! The Most Dangerous Search Terms on the Internet

Dangerous topics include screensavers, free games and “work from home”

HONG KONG, China (CNN) — If you like to search for “music lyrics” or “free” things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And “free music downloads” puts 20 percent of Web surfers in harm’s way of malicious software, known as “malware.”

Searches that use “free,” “music” and “download” are at increased risk of malicious software.

A new research report by U.S.-based antivirus software company McAfee has identified the most dangerous Internet search words that places users on pages with a higher likelihood of malware.