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Quote: Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed. Using the name Leanne Teale, Homolka gave birth to a seven-pound baby boy Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal. Homolka and the baby's father took the newborn child to their bungalow on the Montreal South...

Oil prices plunged by more than $2 US Monday, dropping below $58 US a barrel on rising U.S. temperatures and news that OPEC is expecting a crude surplus in the spring but has no plans to cut more production. On Friday, prices climbed briefly above the psychological $60 US barrier on unrelenting...

There have been quite a few discussions about the savings that can be had by switching from incandescent light bulbs to flourescent. LED light bulbs are another order of magnitude as far as energy efficiency is concerned. http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/index.aspx

Kyoto and beyond Capturing carbon We have the technology, why aren't we doing it? Last Updated February 7, 2007 CBC News Scientists call it carbon sequestration — a big geological word that means putting the gaseous carbon dioxide from fossil fuels back in the ground where it...

UN report says climate change man-made...

The fallout of global warming: 1,000 years In stark terms, scientists confirm that climate change is 'unequivocal'...

In Depth Technology Windows Vista What's in the new consumer versions Jan. 26, 2007 By Saleem Khan, CBC News Vista's windows are partly transparent to let people see what's behind them. (Microsoft handout) What should I buy? That's the burning...

Did anyone else think the NHL all star game was a joke? The score was 12 to 9. But for the goaltenders, it could have been 40 to 30, or 80 to 70.....:pukeright: There was no checking, no defense, and the officials were completely superfluous. Any similarity to a real hockey game was purely...

Apparently, Lady Komodo Dragons don't need male Komodo Dragons to multiply. A British zoo on Wednesday announced the virgin birth of five Komodo dragons, giving scientists new hope for the captive breeding of the endangered species. In an evolutionary twist, the newborns' eight-year-old...

I was just reading in the news that Europe was hit by a few new computer viruses. I'm not in Europe but my antivirus program(AVG) stopped three new viruses(worms) this morning. This is the first I've seen of this sort of thing in months. Here is a link to the European story...

The owner of a hip-hop record label based in Detroit says he has launched a lawsuit against Canadian immigration officials over alleged racial profiling of black hip-hop stars. Jerome Almon names 95 border guards and two former federal ministers of immigration, Denis Coderre and Elinor Caplan...

Most good table manners are simply common sense and courtesy. I enjoy seeing good table manners and I don't enforce the "rules". I just don't invite slobs back a second time.

Darn those Iraqis Laurie Stone, Online Journal Contributing Writer...You must understand, good citizens, I've seen the light. It's not our ill-conceived, immoral, illegal invasion and occupation of your country causing the problems. It's you. After hearing politicians (on both sides of the...

30 December 2006 - a day of infamy Gabriele Zamparini, The cat's dream30 December 2006 will be remembered as a day of infamy. In violation of international law and human decency, the quisling government of occupied Iraq, a puppet, sectarian regime installed by the American occupation and...

If the U.S. is supposed to be leaving Iraq, how come they are building new permanent military bases? The supplemental funding bill for the war in Iraq signed by President Bush in early May 2005 provides money for the construction of bases for U.S. forces that are described as "in some very...

I just tried the Opera browser for three days. Basically it just reinforced my opinion that Firefox is the best browser out there.

I watched a program last night about these twins, these two young ladies now, who for some reason, never quite separated into complete identical twins as infants. Some of the things they can do are miraculous to say the least. Each girl controls the limbs on her side but the two of them can...

2006 STELLA Awards > > > >Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The > >Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot > >coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case > >inspired the Stella Awards for the most...

We have a virtual blizzard going on right now. We have gotten more than two inches of snow in the past hour. I thought we were finished that nonsense for a while.:pukeright: :evil3:

I ran accross this completely by accident, and it certainly runs contrary to popular opinion in a lot of circles. There are some interesting links. By Fred Halstead, The Militant, 14 August 1995 On Aug. 6, 1945, and again on August 9, the U.S. government dropped the first and second atomic...