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Official UPDATE/ from hospital web site Angelina JOLIE left LENVALwith her babies on July 19th Mrs Angelina JOLIE left the Clinic SANTA MARIA of Fondation LENVAL early in the morning , on July 19TH. The mother and her babies are doing very well. The general management of LENVAL and SANTA MARIA want to thank the [...]

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Type Terminator in the search box in the left column to read recent and earlier posts on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and it’s excellent cast. Summer Glau won her second Saturn Award Tuesday night at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror’s 34th annual Saturn Awards, held at the Universal Hilton Hotel in [...]

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  George Carlin first came to my attention when he got himself arrested for uttering the “The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say On Television” in the mid 1970′s, when he performed in Milwaukee WI. Until one of my friends bought his comedy album (which some stores refused to carry) with the routine on [...]

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A quiz for all things Terminator Much more on this website on Terminator: TSCC That is one of the hardest quizzes I’ve ever taken for a television show. I did OK but I think maybe skipping one Terminator movie did me in! Great questions though. Some really hard even if you’ve seen some of the [...]

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22
April

Go Barefoot: Your Feet Will Thank You

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Khaled Desouki “Everyone who wears shoes walks wrong,” says Adam Sternbergh, who wrote about shoes and human feet for New York magazine. AFP/Getty Images I love the reasoning behind why we started to wear high heels–to avoid one another’s excrement! My grandmother always encouraged us to go barefoot. Her son–my Dad– taught me to do [...]

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“We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.” GEN. DAVID H. PETRAEUS, the American commander in Iraq. General Petraeus seems the best American Iraq commander so far. I heard excepts from the speech on NPR. It can’t be easy to be in his position, especially under command(er)-in-chief, [...]

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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/05/paul-a… Reps. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich glided to victories in their House races yesterday, despite some tense moments earlier this year when it looked like the two long-shot presidential candidates would lose their seats to primary challengers.In Ohio, Democrat Kucinich topped his main primary opponent, Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman, who similarly defined Kucinich as [...]

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Stanford University announced that it will eliminate its $36,000 tuition for students with annual family incomes less than $100,000. Do you think other universities will follow suit? Why or why not? First, I ‘d like to applaud Stanford University for addressing an issue that’s only gotten worse in the past 15-20 years. I’d also like [...]

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Took a drive up to Crystal Lake today where my friend cuts and colours my hair for about half the cost of what I’d pay at her downtown salon. (Thanks, M!) I tuned into NPR on the car radio in hopes of getting some world news. Silly me, there was a presidential debate last night so [...]

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EDIT! Michelle, Viewed– in this blog~ 06.26.08 Though we receive both Newsweek and Time magazines in the mail as well as the Chicago Tribune, I rarely read any of them. Instead, I get my news and feature stories from an eclectic mix of sources on the Internet. Today though I noticed a cover story on [...]

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20
February

Sometimes it sucks to be right

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In her second conversation with CNN, on Tuesday,  Jessica Baty said Kazmierczak began seeing (a) psychchiatrist shortly after they transferred from NIU to the University of Illinois in Champaign in June 2007. A psychiatrist not familiar with the details of the case said the three-drug combination was not necessarily either unusual or dangerous. “It’s not [...]

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15
February

QotD: School Shootings

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A gunman killed 5 and wounded 20 at Northern Illinois University yesterday. What, if anything, can we do to prevent violent attacks such as this in the future?    Right now, I feel helpless. This changes things a lot. I’m scared to be here. I’m 22 years old and scared to be on a college [...]

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Gunman Slays Five in Illinois at a University Deadly Shooting at Northern Illinois – The New York Ti http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008…  Police officers from the campus, which is 65 miles due west of Chicago, said three weapons had been found with the man?s body: two handguns, including a Glock, and the shotgun.Photo: Eric Sumberg/daily-chronicle.com, via Associated PressrelatedArticle: Gunman [...]

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