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February 24th, 2009
 | 10:38 am
70 students arrested in protests in Tehran.
The intellectual underpinnings of the Obama code.
No wonder the DC Metro board makes lousy decisions about service -- they don't ride the trains. Shouldn't that be a *requirement* for serving on the board?
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying to get GOP attention by opposing Obama, but he's managing to grandstand against the stimulus and still get most of the money. It's one thing to start double talking, but this is a bit more than two faces he's showing here. Why am I thinking of Ethan and Janus from Buffy? Which ancient deities were represented as having several faces? Wasn't Hermes, god of thieves and tricksters, one of them?
A Field Guide to Military Urbanism looks at the reuse of prisons as residences for foreign contract labor in Britain.
Sean Penn's next movie may be about Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whom Penn resembles.
Transgender living in Santa Barbara.
Ritz Camera files for bankruptcy. And Circuit City's liquidator is pulling a scam.
Antibodies, possibly a new weapon against the flu. More from the NYTimes.
When the government doesn't respond, you do it yourself. Local Newfoundlanders free dolphins trapped by ice; one man gets into the water so the weakest dolphin can lean on him to breathe.
Is your drywall from China?
Buy a t-shirt, and a tree is planted.
Hmm. Growing teeth in a laboratory? Why isn't this already done?
First look at an endangered cheetah.
Very nice. No emissions, good brakes -- but no shelter from the sun, and no trunk for luggage or groceries. I think this needs more thinking before it's practical for people.
Margaret and Helen take down Bush, no holds barred.
Planes, trains and recycled hotels.
What's the true cost of chocolate? The museum of old techniques. 10 steps for sustainable design.
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