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Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus.
AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured - NYTimes.com

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Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?, 60 Minutes Reports On Bribery Conviction Of Don Siegelman In A Case Criticized by Democrats And Republicans - CBS News
Is Don Siegelman in prison because he’s a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama? Siegelman is the former governor of Alabama, and he [...]

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Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack Obama - Boing Boing
The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia.
How great is this ad. Thanks to @xenijardin.

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This is Your Nation on White Privilege: Z Space - Tim Wise
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every [...]

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Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters, Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash - WSJ.com
The American financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. faced the prospect of liquidation, and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp.
The press can no longer ignore [...]

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Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during “God Bless America” - Boing Boing.
The Yankees are serious about their bizarre prohibition on going to the bathroom during the playing of “God Bless America” during the Seventh Inning Stretch: a man was dragged out of the [...]

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Johns Hopkins seeks volunteers to take magic mushrooms
 A research program designed to enhance spiritual awareness for persons with a cancer diagnosis is accepting volunteer participants at the Bayview Campus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. The program consists of a brief counseling intervention, including medical screening, rapport-building appointments, two all-day sessions that [...]

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Slack-a-gogo
AotM alum Dale’s blog presence has content out the wazoo (check out the long and varied list of links) including, though not limited to, images of his sketchbooks. I didn’t know he had cartooning in his veins, but am glad to have found out as he’s got lots of splendid doodles. He even [...]

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How insects breathe underwater - Boing Boing
MIT mathematicians have learned more about how insects breathe underwater by trapping a layer of air around their bodies. The scientists determined that insects can dive as deep as 30 meters without the bubbles bursting.

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