Brian Gongol
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This happens just as Tropical Storm Erin hits southern Texas and Flossie spares Hawaii. It sure looked like it could've been bad for a while. There is, however, a supertyphoon headed straight for Taiwan and eastern China. Hurricanes in the Atlantic are about twice as common as they were a hundred years ago. Related: Satellite imagery shows just how bad the flooding in China was in July.
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The classic measure of how much people ought to pay for stocks has been ignored pretty badly over the last decade or two
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Robert Gifford led the station into the contemporary talk-radio format
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...Even though a Russian airplane dropped a guided missile on Georgia on August 6th
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Says that's going to hurt the company's year-end profits. Home Depot is seeing a huge slide in profits, too. China, meanwhile, is finding shipping prices to be a drag. But on the up-side, the government expects gas prices to fall through the end of 2007.
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Canadian study shows that the differences can be dramatic, based solely upon where a woman lives
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Says they're deploying too often, with too little time at home and too little conventional training. The stresses of deployment in Iraq most certainly contribute to fatigue, too.
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That is, should we work full-speed at abandoning internal combustion and get serious about improving our ability to produce electricity instead?
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Importantly, that group includes more than 12,000 people returning from combat overseas
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With nothing more than mobile phones and willing participants, flash mob organizers can get 50 people to show up and do stupid, quasi-anonymous things with little or no notice. It doesn't take much in terms of expense or technology to coordinate action, so building a massive bureaucracy to act as the bulkhead keeping terrorism at bay doesn't make a load of sense. We need to spread out our risks and make the average person considerably more aware than we're ever expected them to be.
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It's mildly left-leaning, but the overall story is very worthwhile