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';qwip[4]='But in China today, the ratio is 121 boys for every 100 girls; in India the ratio is 112 boys for every 100 girls';qwip[5]='"This is a very serious situation demanding unequivocal action at every level. We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime, and worse, our children\'s and generations beyond that."';qwip[6]='The amount of radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the 11 March tsunami could have been more than double that originally estimated by its operator, Japan\'s nuclear safety agency has said. ';qwip[7]='A pioneer in battery research who already successfully launched a $350 million company to supply batteries to the likes of GE and Chrysler has done it again -- only this time, "it" represents the complete reinvention of battery technology as we know it. ';qwip[8]='when you look at the genetic decoding of this O104 strain now threatening food consumers across the EU, a fascinating picture emerges of how it must have come into existence.';qwip[9]='"We are wasting tax dollars and throwing money at a problem without even knowing what we are getting in return," said Sen. Claire McCaskill';qwip[10]='Similarly, cannabis is exceptionally safe, and once freed of the prohibition tariff, will be significantly less expensive than the conventional drugs it replaces while its already impressive medical versatility continues to expand.';qwip[11]='Friday, 69-year-old Gary Burton was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 30 days house arrest and two years probation';qwip[12]='Though he operated openly as a state-licensed cannabis minister out of a Hilo storefront for 10 years, it turns out the federal government does not agree Christie is protected by the RFRA. ';qwip[13]='But while the popular press celebrated this sudden attack of nanoconscience and while we still gravely debate whether physicians\' loyalties can really be bought for a disposable pen or a free lunch, the $310 billion pharmaceutical industry quietly buys something far more influential: the contents of medical journals and, all too often, the trajectory of medical research itself.';qwip[14]='combined hemp grocery and body care sales grew in the sampled stores by 10.1% or $3.94 million, over the previous year ending December 26, 2010, to a total of $40.5 million';qwip[15]='Panasonic and friends are turning the footprint of one of the company\'s former factory sites into a 47-acre, 1,000-home "smart town" with energy- and eco-conscious considerations leading the development. ';qwip[16]='The scientific basis for this quest was the experimental confirmation that once two quantum entities (such as electrons) have interacted with one another, they remain connected by what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."';qwip[17]='The national average is at an all-time high, yet certain areas are bucking the trend and people are dying like it\'s 1959. ';qwip[18]='A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin.';qwip[19]='The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history. The court majority says overcrowding has caused \'suffering and death.\' In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns \'terrible things are sure to happen.\' ';qwip[20]='we now know exactly what Goldman Sachs executives like Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks lied about. We know exactly how they and other top Goldman executives, including David Viniar and Thomas Montag, defrauded their clients. America has been waiting for a case to bring against Wall Street. Here it is';qwip[21]='This situation in Madison had generated rules of engagement as bizarre as anything in Iraq or Afghanistan. ';qwip[22]='The minutes of a series of meetings between ministers and senior oil executives are at odds with the public denials of self-interest from oil companies and Western governments at the time.';qwip[23]='A little noticed provision in the House Armed Services Committee\'s National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the United States to use military force anywhere there are terrorism suspects, including within the U.S. itself, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. ';qwip[24]='Investing in renewables to the extent needed would cost only about 1% of global GDP annually';qwip[25]='I believe that America is exceptional in the advantages we\'ve had over other nations, not what we\'ve done with those advantages.';qwip[26]='The problem with glyphosate, Huber says, is that it effectively "gives a plant AIDS," weakening its defenses and making it more susceptible to pathogens, such as the one his team discovered.';qwip[27]='But the intellectual argument for nature\'s rights isn\'t necessarily a patchouli-soaked Gaia fantasy translated into legalese. Some say it\'s a practical extension of ecological insight. ';qwip[28]='There is nothing "sudden" or unprecedented about the DEA raids and other oppressive measures emanating from the Department of Justice. And neither Obama nor the DOJ ever expressed unambiguous support for medical marijuana. It was the reform honchos themselves who misread and misrepresented Administration policy.';qwip[29]='A desperate father whose son was suffering from a life-threatening brain tumour has revealed he gave him cannabis oil to ease his pain. And he has now apparently made a full recovery. ';qwip[30]='It might be instructive to ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush\'s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic (after proper burial rites, of course).  ';qwip[31]='Over a century ago, the United States signed the Fort Laramie Treaties, which guarantee the Lakota "ownership" (a foreign concept to the Lakota, who see stewardship over land to be more appropriate than ownership) of the Black Hills as well as surround ing lands through Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota.';qwip[32]='Every major US bank has been deeply involved in laundering hundreds of billions of dollars in drug profits, for the better part of the past decade. ';qwip[33]='"We cannot understand a war that is badly planned, a war that is badly directed. We cannot understand why he does not understand why the criminals are out there. If they are out there, it is because the institutions and the state are co-opted,"';qwip[34]='Rather here are some choice factoids I picked up from the Hemp History Week, Vote Hemp, and Candle 79 folks as I was fed a hemp-heavy vegan lunch on Manhattan\'s Upper East Side.';qwip[35]='"One day," he predicts, "this will be written up in textbooks as one of the classic experiments in the history of physics."';qwip[36]='This could mean that four modems were combined to reach 1.78Gbps, and such a solution actually exists courtesy of a little known service provider called Sharedband ';qwip[37]='not out of whole paisley cloth but from their astute feel for the culture and the marketplace. And no one was better at it than Augustus Owsley Stanley III. ';qwip[38]='He might have been right.';qwip[39]='Indeed, unless you associate exclusively with editors and prescriptivists, you can find copious examples of the "outside" technique--which readers of Virginia Woolf and The Guardian will recognize as the British style--no further away than your Twitter or Facebook feed.';qwip[40]='So while brave workers were tending to Units 1, 2 and 3 reactors, attempting against all odds to keep the reactor from overheating, the fuel pool at Unit 4 was left untended';qwip[41]='The leaders also stressed the need to  establish the culture of openness and the acceptance of the other, and to support the principles of fraternity, tolerance, and respect of human values that emphasize human rights, respect human dignity, and protect human freedom.  In short, the usual fluff.';qwip[42]='"That\'s right," he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. "Everything\'s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there." ';qwip[43]='Walker held up a photo of President Ronald Reagan, who had famously fired striking air-traffic controllers, and said his plan to sweep away decades of protections for state public employees in a stop-gap budget bill represented "our time to change the course of history." ';qwip[44]=' Judged 50 years later, Ike\'s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system--and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on. ';qwip[45]='The emails reveal Chamber law firm Hunton &amp; Williams was looking for firms to help it execute a plot to entrap bloggers, union officials and other Chamber critics.';qwip[46]='The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census of the insects.';qwip[47]=' "This past melt season was exceptional, with melting in some areas stretching up to 50 days longer than average." ';qwip[48]='This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil.';qwip[49]='But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course -- and that course involves ditching corporate-controlled, chemical-intensive farming. ';qwip[50]='The barn door is open, the toothpaste is out of the tube, Pandora has left the building. Glyphosate resistance is now a fact of life. ';qwip[51]='One independent report has conservatively estimated that there is one toilet for every 273 people in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.';qwip[52]='The IRS is taking advantage of &sect; 280E of the federal tax code, which states that no business deductions will be allowed for companies "trafficking in controlled substances". ';qwip[53]='"They came in, guns drawn, got us down on the ground and in cuffs as fast as they could," Thompson said.';qwip[54]='Why should a dispensary spend money and devote shelf space to a type of Cannabis that most medical users haven\'t heard of and whose effects are unproven? ';qwip[55]='He established himself in a rickety, termite infested storefront in downtown Pahoa,  and became the "go-to" guy for anything and everything to do with Hemp and Cannabis legalization, promotion, education, politics and activism.';qwip[56]='"In the grand scheme of things, the entire federal budget dedicated to keeping marijuana illegal and carrying out all the enforcement measures to do so is really something that is long past its prime," Fox said.  ';qwip[57]='The heir to the throne has long been trying to promote sustainable living, and argues that this house promotes a green lifestyle without resorting to gadgets of hi-tech materials.';qwip[58]='What\'s more, the plan to kill the unions is right out of the Koch Brothers play book.';qwip[59]='At the dawn of the broadcasting era, the government declared that the airwaves belonged to the public, and it fashioned rules to protect the public interest. ';qwip[60]='Led by Dr. Jiang Mianheng, a graduate of Drexel University in electrical engineering, the thorium MSR efforts aims not only to develop the technology but to secure intellectual property rights to its implementation.';qwip[61]='Tweaking genomes, critics say, could lead to unforeseen and uncontrollable consequences.';qwip[62]='When the high priest of capitalism himself is declaring the growth in economic inequality a national crisis, something has gone very, very wrong.';qwip[63]='The skulls -- found in Gough\'s Cave in the Cheddar Gorge in the southwestern English county of Somerset -- had been meticulously cleaned of soft tissue, cut to remove the base and facial bones, and had their rough edges smoothed to create skull-cups or bowls';qwip[64]='It is a clear, fresh New York night in March 1939. You\'re on a date and you\'ve decided to investigate a new club in a former speakeasy on West 4th Street: Cafe Society, which calls itself "The Wrong Place for the Right People".';qwip[65]='Those arrested included Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers, retired 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern, FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley, as well as several members of Veterans for Peace.';qwip[66]='The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased to seven to nine years on appeal in what one of the defence lawyers described as a "shocking blow" for the US. ';qwip[67]='"Jesus plus nothing" is the mantra of the Fellowship, also known as the Family, a secret, fundamentalist Christian organization peopled primarily by devout policy makers and high-ranking individuals. ';qwip[68]='What happened next was unexpected.';qwip[69]='Now, for the first time, there is a detailed inside account of how that game is played.';qwip[70]='The details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential. ';qwip[71]='The United States has spent more than $55 billion trying to rebuild war-torn Afganistan and win the confidence of the people, but most of that money can\'t be accounted for or has been wasted on failed projects. ';qwip[72]='The new security industry of private companies moves large quantities of weapons and military equipment. It provides services for military operations, recruiting former military as civilians to carry out passive or defensive security.';qwip[73]='Once again he was all about winning the hearts and minds of people who, as it appears from the WikiLeaks diplomatic memos, thought he was bonkers--as did quite a few in the U.S. military.  ';qwip[74]='Julian Assange will be the man standing trial. But the participant with the most to lose will be the US government. Victory, if it arrives in any formal sense, will feel pyrrhic. ';qwip[75]='Laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have discovered that the chemical is present in the tap water of 31 out of 35 U.S. cities tested, or 89 percent. ';qwip[76]='Headline hijinks aside, the jury pool\'s action - and the reaction to it - has serious ramifications for continued prosecution of low-level nonviolent drug crimes, not just in Missoula County but around the country. ';qwip[77]='The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables. ';qwip[78]='"This Government is proud to invest in this growing industry so that farmers can continue to expand their markets and develop more products."';qwip[79]='Haile estimates that a rooftop reactor could produce about three gallons of fuel a day.';qwip[80]='The assault on corporate websites &#8211; in retaliation for the global establishment\'s attempts to shut down WikiLeaks &#8211; was, by contrast, singularly modern. ';qwip[81]='"We discovered that bumblebees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from," the students wrote in the paper\'s abstract.';qwip[82]='Imagine if you grew up being told that you had been adopted, only to learn that you were, in fact, kidnapped.';qwip[83]='Researchers built "logic gates" &#8211; the building blocks of a circuit &#8211; out of genes and put them into E. coli bacteria strains.';qwip[84]='"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits,"';qwip[85]='So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003. ';qwip[86]='Assange is in London, facing rape and sexual harrassment charges in Sweden, which he denies. Extradition could be sought by the United States at any time from either venue.';qwip[87]='Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal';qwip[88]='The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia';qwip[89]='Even forgetting about the obvious insider trading aspect to all of this, the official middleman status of the banks is a direct government subsidy and it is little remarked upon, even by the Tea Party crowd, which is otherwise so opposed to "welfare."';qwip[90]='Waving and beaming in a long-sleeve pink shirt and a purple sarong, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate could barely be heard over the cheering and chanting.';qwip[91]='Mina Corporation, which has been awarded over $3 billion dollars in contracts to supply Manas and Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan since 2003, has repeatedly refused to disclose its ownership.';qwip[92]=' American spending on the criminal justice system went from $33 billion in 1980 to $216 billion in 2010 -- an increase of 660 percent. Criminal justice is the third largest employer in the country.';qwip[93]='He urged countries to decriminalize drug possession and use, and offer services to drug users that can reduce HIV and hepatitis infection.';qwip[94]='This proposed action expands the schedule III listing to include formulations having naturally-derived dronabinol and products encapsulated in hard gelatin capsules. This would have the effect of transferring the FDA-approved versions of such generic Marinol products from schedule I to schedule III.';qwip[95]='However, the investigation is ongoing, "final conclusions need to be made" and no charges are for certain against the caregivers and property owners. ';qwip[96]='Two hemp-based homes have been completed in Asheville, one in West Asheville and another off Town Mountain Road, and another is going up in Haywood County near Lake Junaluska';qwip[97]='By reporting from cities that are ahead of the overall aging curve, Fishman deftly forecasts the larger problems that will soon consume the globe.';qwip[98]='What distinguishes them is not whether they are judicial activists, but on whose behalf they act. ';qwip[99]='"It\'s not enough. What can be done to stop this war?"';qwip[100]=' This one is completely different. ';qwip[101]='Environmentalists say that last winter, only about one-fourth as many butterflies migrated to Mexico from the U.S. and Canada as in the previous year.';qwip[102]='A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops';
