Not just for con panels no more...

Doctors Use Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care
By BARNABY J. FEDER

Nanotechnology's bag of tricks for inventing new molecules and manipulating those available naturally could be dazzling in its potential to improve health care.

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I'm still walking around the house like the Million Year Old Man. There are black and blue places on my body that I don't remember dropping furniture on, and since the black, drunk boyfriend of the woman who bought Laura Jean's house never did punch me, I don't know where they came from.

Yesterday's trip to the burbs to hit the Thomasville furniture store was scary. It's a different world out there. It looks like a southwestern city has pulled up from the dry sands of arizona and been planted far off here in the cold north. I'd say it won't survive the winter, but it has been there longer than that.

Rethugs in Florida

http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/2004/10/how_they_do_par_1.html

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Tuesday, November 2nd is Election Day. Please Vote.

For anybody in the state of Minnesota
To check what you need if you’re not registered to vote:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/elections/2004/voter-registration/registration-requirements.asp#P0_0

To find your polling place and a list of candidates:
http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/

When to vote: Between 7:00 am and 8:00 pm.

Having worked at polling places for more than a few years, at most precincts, voters tend to come in waves. The Eager Beaver voters are standing at the polling places by 7:00 am when they open. Then the on-the-way-to-work voters trickle in until 9:00 or so. By 10:00, most of the people who finish the second and third cups of coffee have voted and there’s a lull until the early for lunch crowd hits 11:30-1:30 or so. Then there’s a brief lull until the off work crowd hits 4:30 – 6:00. After dinner crowd rush starts between 6:00 and 7:00, and the stragglers line up between 7:00 and 8:00 pm.

Best bets: mid morning and mid afternoon. Be prepared to wait in line. Everybody in line by 8:00 pm will be permitted to vote. (If you are unsure of your registration status or your IDs, the later you wait, the less chance there is to obtain adequate identification.)

Challenges

If you are in the right ward and precinct and are challenged at the polls by a challenger or by an entry in the registration books, you must resolve the challenge with the election judges before you leave the polling place. Generally, you can do this by answering questions from the election judge and re-swearing the oath of eligibility. Do not speak to challengers or answer any questions unless they are asked by the election judges.

If you are having problems, ask to speak to the head judge. If you’re still having problems, ask that they call Election Headquarters. If you are challenged, do not leave the polling place until the challenge is resolved. If you leave without answering the challenge, you are giving up your right to vote.

Poll watchers or challengers can initiate a challenge to voters, but they have no say on whether or not the voter is allowed to vote. That’s up to the election judge. Challenging is fairly unusual in Minneapolis outside of the U of M area. Owing to the importance of this election, I expect to see more.