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[novapsyche]

I've come across a wonderful smorgasbord of links tonight:

America’s Toe-Tapping Menace

Protest in a liberal democracy -- an article original published in Philosophy and Social Action, 1994

The Angry Black Woman -- courtesy of vylar_kaftan. And so so timely. Because what the frick?

10 Do's and Don'ts for transracially adoptive parents

Felix becomes rare top-ranked storm -- "Category 5 hurricanes have been rare. [Before 2005,] only two years on record had seen more than one Category 5 hurricane. The 2005 season experienced four. [...] The increase in the number of top-ranked hurricanes has provided backing to research showing global warming may produce stronger tropical cyclones."

Mexico trucks to roll on U.S. highways

Texas spiders' monstrous webs baffle scientists -- "'The dominant spiders here seem to be long-jawed spiders but this is unusual. Social spiders build communal nests in the tropics but the longjaws are not social,' said Mike Quinn, a Texas state insect biologist."

Psychiatrists least religious of U.S. doctors: study

Cancer Society Focuses Its Ads on the Uninsured -- "In a stark departure from past practice, the American Cancer Society plans to devote its entire $15 million advertising budget this year not to smoking cessation or colorectal screening but to the consequences of inadequate health coverage."

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[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

Cancer society focuses its ads on the uninsured.

yeah! Go ACS!

OMFG I about died when I went to a grand rounds and somebody used the words "medically indigent" to refer to people without insurance.
I was angry for days.

SHHHH! there is no hurricane. We all All Fine.