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Colorado Company Offers Banana Coffins
DENVER ? Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. Ecoffins USA, based in Montrose, Colo., is selling caskets made of banana sheaves. They take six months to two years to biodegrade. Marketing director Joanna Passarelli says the company sold
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Diane Dimond: Green Justice For Athletes
I am sick of it. I am sick to my core with professional athletes who escape true justice when they break the law. Some of these guys project such a powerful image no one dares report their criminal behavior. A recent case in point is former major league baseball player Mel Hall who dodged charges of sexual assault against young girls for
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Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses
George Orwell's revolutionary book "1984" was radical fiction in 1948 when he wrote it but is almost humdrum today, and close to true. Orwell coined the word newspeak, meaning common words having uncommon meaning. In his book, firemen started fires rather than putting them out. Today in healthcare, newspeak is "cost cutting
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Luggable 75 lb "laptop" from 1968
Harry sez, "Computers weren't portable in 1968 (they tended to fill entire rooms), but even then, the yen for portable computing was there. In 1968, Computerworld reported on a carrying case that turned a Teletype machine into a 75-pound mobile terminal--wheels were optional." The Laptop, Circa 1968 ( Thanks, Harry ! )
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Joey Chestnut Wins Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest
(AP)-- Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual showcase for flamboyant hot dogging contestants eager to show they really are what they eat. Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., hoisted the American flag and then stood proudly like an Olympic athlete as
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Weather Channel: no more smooth jazz
The Weather Channel will no longer have a "smooth jazz" soundtrack behind its "Local On the 8s" segments. Instead, they will play rock. Fortunately, you can still turn down the TV volume and crank your CD of " The Weather Channel Presents Smooth Jazz ," which actually hit #1 on the Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Album Chart
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Rumored Sony Ericsson "Kiki" handset isn't a boring one
That supposedly upcoming Android XPERIA that Mobil dug up might have our minds, but it's this leaked handset (which, to be fair, looks fairly sketchily rendered), the Sony Ericsson Kiki, that has won our hearts. The screen is made of glass, with an image seemingly rear-projected onto it (teleprompter style), while the keys are, um, scarce
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Mike Lux: The Celebration of a Progressive Holiday
On this holiday celebrating the courage of America's brave revolutionary founders, all Americans can celebrate. But progressives should take special pride in this holiday, for it was the ultimate achievement of progressive values that brought us this day. As I discuss in my book, The Progressive Revolution:
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Sony Ericsson "Rachael" Android XPERIA handset unveiled?
Hello, beautiful. Danish phone site Mobil has uncovered "internal documents" on what appears to be Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android-based handset, an XPERIA number codenamed Rachael. Under the hood is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, HSPA and an 8 megapixel camera. It's unclear how big the touchscreen is,
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Tecmo Koei CEO to Sony: "please cut the price" of the PS3
Activision's CEO has already gone public with his complaints about the price of the PS3, and it looks he's not alone among industry bigwigs with a bone to pick with Sony, with the CEO of the newly formed Tecmo Koei now coming out and echoing his concerns. Speaking with CVG , Tecmo Koei's Kenji Matsubara says that whenever he speaks about the
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