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USATODAY.com - A fiscal hurricane on the horizon

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:21:30 -0800

The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell."We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters. He runs through a long list of fiscal challenges, led by the imminent retirement of the baby boomers, whose promised Medicare and Social Security benefits will swamp the federal budget in coming decades.

Crazy in Love? - WSJ.com

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:17:52 -0800

Science is beginning to pay more attention to the chemical storm that romantic love can trigger in our brains. Recent studies of brain scans show that being in love causes changes in the brain that are strikingly similar to serious health problems like drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

BBC NEWS | Health | Vitamins could shorten lifespan

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:20:51 -0800

Millions worldwide use antioxidant supplements such as vitamins A and E, and beta-carotene.Looking at dozens of previous studies, Copenhagen University researchers suggested these appeared to raise, not lower, the risk of early death.

Chews Wise

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:34:16 -0800

Uncovering the Food Chain One Bite at a Time

Smilemailer -

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:36:56 -0800

Within 3 minutes you can request that a real paper greeting card is sent to someone hurting anywhere in the world!... There is no charge to you or to the person the card is sent to. We pay for the postage and the greeting cards. These are not e-greetings, these are real paper greeting cards mailed at our expense with a first-class stamp.

[ANN] IFRAME based RJS - responds_to_parent - Ruby Forum

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:33:37 -0800

** File uploads with AJAX mojo **Respond with RJS to your parent window with a form action targeted toa hidden IFRAME. Handles all the painful situations like scopingyour JavaScript to your parent window generating the script block forexecution and clearing the IFRAME after execution so the back buttondoesn't re-execute the action.

Oliver James' new book: it could f*** you up | spiked

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:39:09 -0800

It is a reasonable bet that Oliver James thinks you are mentally ill. The clinical psychologist and media pundit starts his new book with a questionnaire for readers to determine whether they have contracted the �affluenza virus�.

Eating Healthy and Organic on $7 a Day - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Fitness

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:53:40 -0800

It�s not impossible and you won�t have to bust your budget. But you likely will have to make some changes.

InfoQ: Introduction to BackgrounDRb

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:17:46 -0800

Ruby on Rails is a great framework for developing many diverse types of web applications. As the problem domain of these web applications expands, you may need to run computationally intensive or long running background tasks. This poses a problem in that you are constrained to work within the request/response cycle of HTTP. So how can you run these long background tasks without your web server timing out? And how do you display the progress to your users?