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Web exclusive: Asbestos causes evacuation at Bourbonnais Terrace, written 8 hours ago, Nearly 200 residents of Bourbonnais Terrace nursing home were evacuated after the Illinois Department of Public Health ordered their building closed due to asbestos, a toxic mineral. The residents are now sleeping...

Gmail saves us from drunk e-mails, written 6 days ago, I've been a fan of Google's web-based e-mail service Gmail pretty since it started in private beta. Since the service's humble beginnings as an improvement on the way we used web mail, many new features have been added, some neat and some pretty...

Writers helping writers, written 2 days ago, The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.--John Irving (1942 - )Having just spent six days in Whitefish, Montana, at the Authors of the Flathead ...

Suits over Lennon song dropped, written 5 days ago, The Wall Street Journal - Yoko Ono and EMI Group Ltd. have dropped copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of a documentary that used a portion of John Lennon's "Imagine" without permission. But the development, which was annou...

Dimensional Mailers: Misunderstood, Underutilized, and Yet Another to Set Yourself Apart, written 11 hours ago, Regular readers know I'm a fan of lumpy mailers. They're powerful self-promotion tools - the kind of tactic that invariably finds your pitch on the desk of decision makers. Of course, they...

Real Food Explosions As Economic Metaphors - NY Times Magazine Food Issue (GALLERY), written 1 hour ago, (TrendHunter.com) The Food Issue of New York Times Magazine has been launched and the promotional image is stunning. The exploding cob of corn taken by high speed photographer Martin Klimas symbo...

The earth is hungry, written 2 hours ago, At first I thought this was an art sculpture or something - but it seems like this taxi nosedived into a hole beneath the tiled stones.

Censorship and Freedom of Speech, written 1 week ago, The following is a mirror of an original post from Craig Murray:This is the key section from my new book which the publisher is
 unwilling to publish due to legal threats from Schillings libel
 lawyers, acting on behalf of the mer...

Meeting the President, written 7 hours ago, Eight o'clock. Damascus. The National Orchestra was about to perform at the Opera House.The audience were taking their seats - and then there was a growing whisper coming from the right hand side. The whisper grew to a chatter. Down the steps walked a tall...

Media Lens & Cook: the actuality of media control, written 4 days ago, Media Lens have just published Part 2 of Intellectual cleansing, a brilliant Alert featuring Jonathan Cook's personalised account of how media censorship and control actually works in daily practice. It's a fine collaboration...

Rex Smith: Thick skin useful, but not enough, written 2 days ago, A few people out there will send me a note after reading this column, reminding me that I am an unethical, biased, manipulative, unimaginative jerk. It is so nice to have friends. Some even sign their names. Mostly it's the same littl...

McCain Fails to Vanquish "That One"McCain NewsLadder, written 5 days ago, Special Debate Edition In a forum on a college stage in Nashville, Tenn., Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain faced off for a second time before the television cameras, fielding questions on the economy, energy an...

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Paper View Monday: The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, written 19 hours ago, This week's newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. Meaningless fact: The News Tribune's building is the first we've featured here at Paper View Monday HQ ...

Rachel Maddow Gets a Closeup of Jay Leno's Chin, written 9 hours ago, MSNBC It Girl Rachel Maddow, donning her "Sarah Palin glasses," recently dropped by "The Jay Leno Show" for a short rundown of a few topics. While chatting on Leno's couch, she talked about her love of debating...

Why People Consider Journalists Lower Than Dirt, Part 83,704, written 4 days ago, Dean Reynolds, CBS News: Reporter's Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives - From The Road: Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane thing...