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LifestreamAlan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, and John Snow, Treasury secretary, on Thursday warned Congress against erecting barriers to trade with China, saying this would do nothing to help US manufacturers but would hurt US consumers.
Imposing a tariff on Chinese imports would simply mean that the US imported the same goods from other low-cost economies in [...]
Archive for June, 2005
As the clock ticks down toward the December start date of James Cameron’s next project, the director is shifting his full attention from “Battle Angel.” Although he has publicly identified that film as his next movie, he also is readying a parallel project, tentatively titled “Project 880,” according to sources at Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
Both films [...]
Brazil announced late Friday that it would start copying an AIDS drug made by the American pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories to provide a cheaper version for its AIDS treatment program, becoming the first country to break the patent of an antiretroviral medicine.
The Brazilian government, which provides free AIDS treatment to all who need it, estimates [...]
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The original device was developed by Volney Mathison, a chiropractor, as an aid to psychotherapy, ironic considering the vehemence held by Scientologists against conventional psychiatric therapy. At heart, the e-Meters are based on the simple circuitry of the Wheatstone Bridge, which measures resistance to current passed through a human body (or anything [...]
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development.
It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership rights.
The [...]
June has so far been a hectic month thanks to cult poster figures Madonna and Tom Cruise. Especially the latter has been plastered all over the world’s newspapers thanks to his various antics. Now if antics were all they were up to, it wouldn’t be much of a concern, would it …
Scientologists distort Buddhist history [...]
So this new video compression tool seems to be all that some people are talking about. Slyck recently posted an interview with the lead programmer of ratDVD.
Is it any good? Don’t know, never tried it, but obviously, at 1.36 GB / DVD typically it can’t compete with an XVID of equal size. The video compression [...]
The House on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure that for the first time stands a chance of passing the Senate as well.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, said, “If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of [...]
New York Senator Charles E. Schumer claims upcoming shooter is an “all-time low” and teaches “Little Johnny” to kill cops.
Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) is embarking on a crusade against Eidos, telling the New York Daily News that the British publisher is readying a game that makes “Grand Theft Auto look like Romper Room.” [...]
You’ve heard the rumors that Space: Above and Beyond will be coming to DVD, and… well… it’s not here. Good news though; it is coming, and it’s coming very soon - this summer.
Space: Above and Beyond is a title that Best Buy will have an exclusive on for a period of time, much like Tru [...]
