How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood

Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis.

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UN head calls US a 'deadbeat'

In a classic example of the maxim no good deed goes unpunished, the United States suffered a verbal slighting by the head of the United Nations this past Wednesday.

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Hannity suggests Christianity compatible with torture

Fox News' Sean Hannity doesn't let his religion get in the way for his support of a controversial anti-terror tactic.

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Pay teenagers not to get pregnant, Republican says

The man who dubbed Vice President Joe Biden a socialist last September for arguing that paying taxes is "patriotic" appears to have some government redistribution ideas of his own.

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Ralph Nader: Too Big...Period

Does anybody in the federal government know or could know "who, what, where and when" of the massive, complex, vertical, horizontal, global collapse of Wall Street and its planetary tentacles in over 100 countries abroad? Step forward if you exist! Uncle Sam needs you!

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Dalai Lama Harshly Condemns China Over Tibet

BEIJING — The Dalai Lama delivered on Tuesday one of his harshest attacks on the Chinese government in recent times, saying that the Chinese Communist Party had transformed Tibet into a "hell on earth" and that the Chinese authorities regard Tibetans as "criminals deservi …

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The Audacity of Nope

One feels almost unpatriotic, entertaining negative thoughts about Obama's grand plan. But it is far from clear that spending oceanic sums of money is the right corrective.

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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

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The Making of a Radical

Scott Nearing lived one hundred years, from 1883 to 1983--a life spanning most of the twentieth century. In his early years, Nearing made his name as a formidable opponent of child labor and military imperialism.

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Surviving Tough Times in 2009: Twelve Books That Will Help

One person's opinion of recommended reading for uncertain times ahead.

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Did the Amish get it right after all?

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Dennis Ross will be Barack Obama's adviser on Iran

BARACK OBAMA has spoken of reaching out to difficult regimes, if only such opponents would unclench their fists.

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Employers Beware - What Employees Take With Them | The Economist

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Animal Shelters Close While NPO Execs Command Six Figure Salaries

Do the top executives at the MSPCA make too much money?

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Hundreds of languages face extinction - The Boston Globe

Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away.

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Freedom of Thought

Under federal law, and the laws of many states, a criminal defendant may be charged with an additional crime or may receive a longer jail sentence if his/her crime was motivated by "hate" against a person because of that person's gender, race, religion, sexual orientation,  …

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The Raw Story | Report: Nearly 75% of ex-Bush officials looking for jobs are unemployed

Ex-Bushies can't get jobs

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The Raw Story | US congressmen express shock at Gaza devastation

US Democratic representatives Brian Baird and Keith Ellison visited a Hamas-run Palestinian enclave within the war-shattered Gaza Strip and comment on what they saw.

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The Most Dangerous Place in the World

Somalia at it's worst

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The Swiss Bank UBS Is Set to Open Its Secret Files - NYTimes.com

The Swiss Bank, UBS will be opening its files to U.S. agents. UBS openly admitted to having given advice on how to evade taxes to U.S citizens.

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