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Mar. 24th, 2009
Da Gray Lady Speakes:
Mar. 24th, 2009 03:39 amEditorial
The Bank Rescue
Published: March 23, 2009
The Bank Rescue
Published: March 23, 2009
President Obama’s long-awaited plan to revive the banks could work if certain assumptions about the future are right. But there is not much, beyond faith, to believe those assumptions will pan out — and even if there were, it is hard to see how the plan is the best way to go. More
AS ONE A field of genetically identical amoebas in Texas raises the possibility that cells might organize on much larger scales than once thought.
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Published: March 23, 2009
After producing superlatives like the world’s biggest statue of a jackrabbit and the nation’s most unpopular modern-day president, Texas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world’s largest known colony of clonal amoebas. More
Bats Landing
Mar. 24th, 2009 04:25 amObservatory
Those Gymnastic Bats, Landing Upside Down
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: March 20, 2009
Four-Point Landing
Two-Point Landing
Those Gymnastic Bats, Landing Upside Down
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: March 20, 2009
Sticking the landing may be hard for gymnasts, but at least they finish right-side up and have gravity on their side. Consider what bats have to do: because they roost by hanging from their heels, they must land upside down against a cave ceiling or foliage. And on their approach they fly upward, against gravity. More
Four-Point Landing
Two-Point Landing
Who said...
Mar. 24th, 2009 05:09 amI’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.
I would say there are probably 30 keepers of the flame over here ...The main thing we can do right now is be foreign correspondents reporting to you from enemy lines. [...]
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.
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By Chris Kaltenbach | chris.kaltenbach@baltsun.com
5:49 PM EDT, March 24, 2009
Frances Milstead, who reveled in her son Glenn's outsized persona as Divine, the drag-queen star of many John Waters films, died Tuesday morning at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hospice of complications from a stroke. She was 88. More
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