Random links
- Teens who snack may weigh less
- "The study, of 5,800 U.S. teenagers included in a government health survey, found that rates of obesity, and abdominal obesity specifically, declined with the number of snacks kids had each day."
Wall Street Risks Push Investors Toward Faith-Based Funds- I've looked at a bunch of these before, alongside some of the hippy-friendly funds that filter on criteria like environmentally friendliness. The basic problem with all seems to be that I don't fit cleanly into any one category - part hippy, part crazy conservative.
- Copyright debate turns ugly: Heritage minister stirs hornet's nest with 'radical extremist' comments
- Seems that there are a lot of people not buying the government's claims (or the so-called myths that the act wasn't as harsh as its critics claimed)
- Divided Loyalties
- ""He was saying in Urdu (the official language of Pakistan): 'Oh, God, protect us from the infidels, who pollute us with their vile ways,'" recalls Kanwar, a professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary." - I'm divided over how much I should care about this... but it is a Canadian (Calgarian) story. Was he referring to a specific subset of infidels or infidel's ways or to all non-Muslims?