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TierneyLab: What’s Wrong With ‘Organic’ This is not a rant about organic foods. As a science writer, I do hate the word, "organic," though. Over the years, organic has accumulated several definitions that contradict one another. That's problematic in science articles when "organic" would be the scientifically correct but misleading term. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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What's Inside: 'Just for Men' Hair Color Ethoxydiglycol Back in the '50s, home hair dyes were laced with toxic chemicals that turned a simple touch-up into a haz-mat operation. Luckily, dye makers found substitutes like EDG, a fume- free organic solvent that keeps the ingredients in a thin, pourable consistency. Oleyl A Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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What's Inside: 'Just for Men' Hair Color Ethoxydiglycol Back in the '50s, home hair dyes were laced with toxic chemicals that turned a simple touch-up into a haz-mat operation. Luckily, dye makers found substitutes like EDG, a fume- free organic solvent that keeps the ingredients in a thin, pourable consistency. Oleyl A Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Does ‘Do the Right Drugs’ Give Readers the Wrong Idea? The magazine’s “12 Ways to Super-Charge Your Brain” lays out the pros and cons of eight drug — some legal, some not. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Bits: What’s Behind ‘Stupid Face’ Spam? Why spam messages that insult a person’s appearance are proliferating. (And , needless to say, don’t open them. Just read this to find out what is in it.) Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Groups Call for Boycott of ‘Tropic Thunder’ Film Citing what they described as the movie’s disregard for people with intellectual disabilities, several groups called for a boycott of the film. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Skin Deep: Experimenting With Makeup: What Puts the ‘Ick’ in Lipstick? At a Saturday seminar called Cosmetic Chemistry in Boston, young girls and their parents find out what after-shaves and lipsticks are really made of. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost? When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price tag, it marked the formal beginning of a commercial dog-cloning industry. But for all the attention given to these and other clones, little was paid to the behind-the- Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost? When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price tag, it marked the formal beginning of a commercial dog-cloning industry. But for all the attention given to these and other clones, little was paid to the behind-the- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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For an All-Organic Formula, Baby, That’s Sweet A popular organic infant formula is sweetened with cane sugar, which babies may prefer but pediatricians do not. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Doctors Say ‘I’m Sorry’ Before ‘See You in Court’ Some prominent medical centers are offering apologies and compensation to try to dilute patients’ anger. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Hey FOSS Project, What's Your Pedigree? iTWire: "Organic open source. Non-organic open source. Genetically modified free software. None of these are phrases that are in common usage but exploring what they mean is an interesting exercise..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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An Interface of One’s Own For truly creative writing, word ‘‘processing’’ is not enough. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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‘No Country’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’ Lead Oscars The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywood’s bleak state of mind. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Market Maker: What ‘the Bear’ Meant for the Street Bear Stearns’s storied reputation on Wall Street, included a knack for hiring so-called P.S.D.s — workers who were Poor, Smart and had a deep Desire to become rich. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Nationwide ‘Thunder’ Boycott in the Works A coalition of disabilities groups is expected to call for a national boycott of the coming film “Tropic Thunder” because of what they see as the movie’s open ridicule of the intellectually disabled. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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What's Wrong With These Stocks? What's Wrong With These Stocks? Home > Rss Directory > General > Motley Fool |
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Question to Mozilla CEO: what do you fear? - ZDNet eFluxMediaQuestion to Mozilla CEO: what do you fear?ZDNet - 2 hours agoThe kerfuffle over Apple’s decision to include the Safari 3.1 ‘update’ with an iTunes update installer for Windows made me smile.Mozilla CEO: Apple's Safari-To-Windows Distri Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |