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by Frank James Alan Diaz/Associated Press A Miami-Dade bomb squad truck leaves Miami International Airport in Miami, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Authorities released that 70-year old scientist whose metal scientific experiment canister, wrongly suspected of being a bomb, shut down Miami International Airport late Thursday and into the wee hours Friday. Fortunately for the scientist, authorities didn’t provide his name [...]
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Anwar al-Aulaqi, New Mexico-born and linked to al-Qaeda. The Obama administration is continuing a policy begun under the Bush administration, which authorizes the CIA and the American military to kill American citizens abroad if they are involved in terrorist actions against the U.S. (al-Jazeera) ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over Alleged Assassination Plot — Wall Street [...]
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Paying homage to statistical milestones is a time-honored tradition in baseball. As the most statistically oriented sport, and with reporters, broadcasters and media relations types obligated to churn out a boatload of material on a daily basis, baseball always seems to have one number or another to celebrate. Count Billy Wagner as a conscientious objector [...]
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The phrase Obama’s Katrina will hopefully be retired after this weekend as we watch nonstop footage of failed lees and American citizens on rooftops. I would prefer instead to refer to political disasters as Sarah Palin’s “In What Respect, Charlie?” When you’ve lived through it, hearing anyone call a disaster someone’s Katrina is like hearing [...]
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Domestic Spying Rises to Cold War Levels — Dark Government The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released numerous reports of increased government spying on American citizens. Once upon an unhappy time, U.S. law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, had a history of political spying during the Cold War. The ACLU said that [...]
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New York is consistently touted as a cold, aggressive, and hectic city with no personal connections possible. A populace of hyper-efficient and emotionally starved citizens, or at least that’s what I had heard before I moved here. I arrived in New York almost 4 years ago and immediately found these preconceptions to be mostly untrue, [...]
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With games that include Farmville, Frontierville and Mafia Wars attracting million of users, while creating billions of dollars in revenue, it doesn’t really surprise me that the social gaming industry is huge, but what some readers may not realize is exactly how big the industry has become. How big is social gaming? 56 million strong [...]
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Most recently, some politicians and concerned citizens have expressed a desire to amend the 14th Amendment of our Constitution, which says in Section 1, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Proponents want to [...]
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To talk about the last five years post-Katrina without mentioning what happened this summer would be to ignore the elephant in the room. The big, oily elephant in the room. Last year you couldn’t pitch a New Orleans story nationally because we were told it was an off year. This year you can’t shake a [...]
about 2 weeks ago - 1 comment
Widespread speculation that the Obama administration will loosen restrictions on the ability of American citizens to visit Cuba has put travel to the island back in the spotlight. If you are hoping that the president’s expected announcement will allow you to travel to Cuba, here are a few things to consider: Ten years ago, Congress [...]
about 5 months ago
I'm a first year in a genetics PhD program. Here's what I've done (besides answer questions on yahoo.)
In my first rotation I grew cells and exposed them to cigarette smoke. We then looked for changes in the cell cycle among other things. That lab was involved in researching lung cancer and has made many discoveries for early diagnosis and risk calculation. The techniques I used were cell culture, RNA and miRNA extraction, and RT-PCR.
Now I'm rotating in a different lab where I'm looking at cells' response to damage. I'm doing tissue culture, western blots, and cell cycle assays.
These are just a few of the labs on campus. Each lab has different techniques they use.
about 5 months ago
I heard that some historians theorize that Russian Jews are modern-day descendants of the Khazars, an ancient Turkic people that inhabited land in what is now the European part of Russia. Though religious toleration was practiced in the ancient Khazar empire, most of the formerly pagan Khazars were converted to Judaism and, in later centuries, spread throughout Russia and Eastern Europe. Many Russian Jews even intermarried with Russians and other Slavic peoples.
While a Jew is defined to be a member of the Judaic religion and is born to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, Jews actually come from all sorts of races and ethnicities. Perhaps that's why many Jews looked more Russian through their distinct facial features.
about 5 months ago
Normally it is the embassy that should help people in such circumstances. Being without a passport is hardly a crime, and entering another country w/o a passport can also only qualify as a stupidity, not a crime… then again, the laws of that country can be different.
In any case, she should go to the US embassy if she found herself in another country w/o a passport. They can help or at least they can tell her what she should do.