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LIFE / OPINION Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:05am neoform

USA Today -- Are there really more than 64 million U.S. Roman Catholics? That's what the 2007 Official Catholic Directory, due out this week, will say. But what about the dead, the double-counted and the disgruntled ex-Catholics — all of whose names may still plu.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said. The Wednesday auction of postwar and contemporary art took in a total of nearly $385 million,.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:30pm neoform

Physorg -- One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability, officials said Saturday. The tree program is one of 127 environmenta.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

Technology Review -- The good news: America’s science literacy rate is up from a pathetic 10 percent in 1988. The bad news: it’s still only 28 percent. “Ignorance feeds on ignorance.” – Carl Sagan Let’s start by focusing on the positive. In just 17 years, ov.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- On any given day, an average of 148,000 people will die. That means over a million people have died in the last week. Nearly 5 million have died since around this time last month, which, incidentally, was exactly when we were briefly bombarded with the ne.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- British businesses are losing more than 50 million pounds ($100 million) a year because of employees leaving work early on Friday, according to a survey published on Friday. The top excuses for starting the weekend early are a long lunch, doctor's appoint.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Tue May 15, 2007 @ 9:23am neoform

Alter Net -- Using publicly available numbers, one can calculate that the U.S. government values an innocent civilian slaughtered by al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 at $1.8 million, and an Iraqi civilian killed by Marines at $2,000. What value has a human.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 7:58am neoform

Telegraph -- Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

CNN -- American Airlines, the world's largest airline, says it can boost revenue by $94 million a year by tailoring some of its services to the growing number of women travelers. The airline, a unit of AMR Corp., this week unveiled a version of its Web site f.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 12:19pm neoform

ABC News -- It may be called "The Secret," but with nearly 4 million copies in print, the country's No. 1 advice book isn't much of a mystery anymore. The DVD version is also wildly popular, with more than 2 million copies sold so far. The "Secret's" premise is si.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

SF Gate -- More than 2,000 years after ancient Greeks identified the Seven Wonders of the World, millions of people around the globe are casting Internet ballots to update the list. Whether motivated by nationalism, conservation, curiosity or an obsession with li.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Sun Feb 4, 2007 @ 6:19pm neoform

ABC News -- Businessman T. Denny Sanford's $400 million gift to the South Dakota Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System is proof that sometimes if you want something, you just have to ask... Read More

LIFE / NEWS Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 4:12pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Food or rent? That is the daily choice faced by about 1.2 million of New York's 8.2 million people... Read More