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That's why we buy our meat at Costco, not less expensive but it's tender enough to actually chew.

Too bad a cop ended an 18 year old life so quickly. Negotiation or a taser or rubber bullets would have been a more sensible choice.

BY RANDY BOSWELL, POSTMEDIA NEWS JUNE 14, 2013 12:15 PM Edward Snowden, the NSA surveillance whistleblower. As the world wrestles with the hero-or-traitor conundrum posed by ex-CIA technician Edward Snowden and his bombshell revelations about U.S. government surveillance of citizens’ email and...

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I'm betting he died from the crushing wounds when his brother ran over him, or was it the bullet wounds from the shootout? Guess we'll find out for sure tomorrow when the autopsy results are revealed.

Yellowstone Park is the caldera of a super-volcano that erupts in about 600,000 year intervals. The last major eruption occurred 640,000 years ago. Scientist have been studying it for years and now realize that there are several underground magma chambers and they are larger than previously...

CBC and CNN are reporting a major explosion occurred in a fertilizer plant this evening near Waco, Texas. Many homes destroyed , at least 44 serious injuries, possibly some deaths.

We lived on a farm. The river bottom land was good farming land but the house and outbuildings and corrals were on upper rocky ground, rounded river rock. Big and little rocks made up the surface layer. Underneath was a thin layer of dirt that would quickly erode away in the infrequent summer...

Headline from The Times of India Health authorities around the world are working to develop a flu vaccine for humans. CNN On China

I read a lot of novels so I get most of them from our library, I simply can't afford to buy them all new. Until my recent eye surgeries, I was unable to read small print so I was pretty much restricted to the Large Print section of the Library and that section is rather small. The librarians...

Last Updated Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:20:52 EST CBC News British Columbia's government called for changes to the Canada Health Act and promised sweeping changes to the province's health-care system in a throne speech on Tuesday. The speech, read by Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo on behalf of...

..........to take away a woman's right to choose? Paul Martin thinks so and I believe he is correct on this. This is what he said last Thursday night: I think this is a very important issue in this election and I don't think it is a smear of Conservatives because I know that the CPC...

What is important to you? I have identified several issues that are important to me. They are: Universal Health Care Jack Layton's NDP has made a firm commitment to preserve and improve the present sytem and has earmarked a lot of money to pay for the upgrades. The Conservatives want to open up...

from the January 11, 2006 edition Algae - like a breath mint for smokestacks By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Great article on a new method of removing carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide from smokestack emissions. Sulphur dioxide can easily be removed in another...