Archive | March, 2009
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Government Worker Strikes Gold at Taxpayer’s Expense

While New Yorkers and the rest of American taxpayers are going broke, one state worker is striking gold: “I do nothing all year and get paid $93,803 per year just for showing up at my work place and this has been going on since 2002! I want to work, but I have been shoved off [...]

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11 Incredible Living Walls

The idea of a living wall conjures up all sorts of images, but in reality it is nothing more than a wall completely covered in vegetation. In order to create a living wall pre-vegetated or fabric panels containing plastic containers, or geotextiles, as well as irrigation systems and vegetation are attached to the wall or supporting structure.

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Will A Weed Save California From Bankruptcy?

A grainy black-and-white film fills the dark room. The audience shifts in their seats nervously as a young woman walks into her room and looks in the mirror and suddenly starts to scream! The words “Marijuana Madness” appear on the top of the screen.

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Stop Sniffles and Runny Noses, Kill the Rhino!

Scientists have unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the “Spanish Flu” strain that killed tens of millions in 1918.

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