Nov 17, 2009 -
New mammogram guidelines raise questions
Benefits of screening before age 50 don't outweigh risks, task force says
updated 7:39 a.m. CT, Tues., Nov . 17, 2009
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.
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Oct 26, 2009 -
Beauty Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to CoherenceAs any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.Tara GradyA person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.UnknownThose who look for beauty, find it.Margaret Wolfe HungerfordBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.Mary Baker EddyThe recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.Marlene Dietrich[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. VallyBeauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.John ConstableThere is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. Remy de GourmontThe ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.John Fitzgerald KennedyI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. Virginia WoolfThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Cliff RichardOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. ChazalThe beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Lucille S.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
Written by Sherwood Ross
Posted: 13 October 2009 10:06
Tne reason for the decline of newspaper circulation is that 42 million Americans are illiterate and roughly 50 million more are semi-literate, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges says. What’s more, he adds, 80 percent of U.S. households last year did not buy a book.
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Oct 12, 2009 -
MEXICO CITY – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
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Jun 09, 2009 -
June 05, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
A Win for the Good Guys
And a setback for sharia-compliant finance in America.
By Frank J.
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May 30, 2009 -
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
...During his speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute last week -- immediately on the heels of President Obama's address at the National Archives -- former Vice President Dick Cheney used the euphemism "enhanced interrogation" a full dozen times.
Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism of course has a political value, enabling its defenders to diminish the horror and possible illegality. It also gives partisans the opening they need to divert our attention by turning the future of the prison at Guantanamo Bay into a "wedge issue," as noted on the front page of Sunday's New York Times.
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Jan 09, 2009 -
The Note, 1/9/09: Obama Pressed From Left on Stimulus
January 09, 2009 8:37 AM
By RICK KLEIN
With the rollout comes the blowback. And with them both comes the presidential-sized challenge for the not-yet president.
It turns out you don’t have to look very hard to find the fault lines in President-elect Barack Obama’s bid for a massive stimulus bill.
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Mar 12, 2009 -
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, President Obama's point-man on the economy, faced another bad day at the office on Thursday. Defending the White House's 10-year budget plan, he was blasted on Capitol Hill. At the same time, he has come under increasing fire as jobless rates accelerate and economists peer over the brink.
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Jan 29, 2009 -
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The New York Times
updated 4:19 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket.
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Nov 02, 2008 -
Artist: Keith Urban
Released: November 7, 2006
Label: Angel, Capitol, Toshiba EMI
Song List
1 Once in a Lifetime 5:53
2 Shine 5:17
3 I Told You So 4:26
4 I Can't Stop Loving You 4:43
5 Won't Let You Down 3:19
6 Faster Car 4:27
7 Stupid Boy 6:16
8 Used to the Pain 4:41
9 Raise the Barn 5:11
10 God Made Woman 4:50
11 Tu Compania 4:10
12 Everybody 5:33
13 Got It Right This Time 6:07
Credits
Eric Darken: Percussion
David Angell: Violin
Terry Christian: Engineer
Steve Churchyard: Engineer
Betsy Cook: Art Direction
Larry Corbett: Cello
David Davidson: Violin
Mark Douthit: Sax (Tenor)
Dan Dugmore: Guitar (Steel)
Connie Ellisor: Violin
Carl Gorodetzky: Violin, Contractor
Barry Green: Trombone
Mark Hagen: Engineer, Overdub Engineer
Mike Haynes: Trumpet
Jimmy Hoyson: Assistant
Dann Huff: Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Producer, Engineer, Guitar (12 String Electric)
Rami Jaffee: Organ (Hammond)
Anthony LaMarchina: Cello
Chris McHugh: Drums, Programming
Doug Moffet: Sax (Baritone)
Nashville String Machine: Choir Conductor
Justin Niebank: Engineer, Mixing
Michael Omartian: Horn Arrangements
Doug Sax: Mastering
Pamela Sixfin: Violin
Jimmie Lee Sloas: Bass
Alan Umstead: Violin
Catherine Umstead: Violin
Gary VanOsdale: Viola
Mary Kathryn Vanosdale: Violin
Kris Wilkinson: Viola
Joy Worland: French Horn
Jonathan Yudkin: Fiddle
Eric Rigler: Uillean Pipes, Tin Whistle
Russell Terrell: Vocals (Background)
Brian David Willis: Digital Editing, Editing
Drew Bollman: Assistant
Jennie O'Grady: Choir Conductor
Tim Lauer: Synthesizer, Accordion, Harmonium, Organ (Pump)
Keith Urban: Guitar (Acoustic), Banjo, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Percussion, Piano, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Producer, Slide Guitar, E-Bow, Drum Machine, Soloist
Max Vadugal: Photography
Monisa Angell: Viola
Suzy Martinez: Production Coordination
Karen Winkelmann: Violin
Jerry Flowers: Vocals (Background)
Dino Hermann: Engineer, Digital Editing
Torne White: Art Direction, Design
Allen Ditto: Assistant
Dominic Morley: Assistant
Cate Myer: Violin
David R. Stone: Bass (Upright)
Tom Bukovac: Guitar (Electric)
Mike "Frog" Griffith: Production Coordination
Carole Rabinowitz-Neuen: Cello
Matt Lawrence: Engineer
Mike Haynes: Trumpet
Scott Kidd: Assistant
Beth Beeson: French Horn
Leslie Richter: Assistant
Rohan Onraet: Assistant
Michelle Hall: Art Producer
Jeff Kersey: Engineer
Denise Arguijo: Art Producer
David Campbell: Choir Arrangement, String Conductor
Sangwook "Sunny" Nam: Mastering
Chris Hicky: Photography
Choristers of Reigate Saint Mary: Soprano (Vocal)
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