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qwip[0]='Author and activist Jack Herer died Thursday in Eugene, Ore. The 70-year-old activist was in ill health following a heart attack he experienced after leaving the Hempstalk festival stage in Portland last fall. ';
qwip[1]='If the measure passes (the latest poll puts support at 56 percent), no longer will it be a crime under state law for an adult to cultivate, possess or transport a personal supply of pot.';
qwip[2]='CCIA came out with the study a day after Intellectual Property Day, during which content companies, including Hollywood and music studios, said more protections against piracy are needed.  ';
qwip[3]='Tesla, who spent most of his adult life in America before his death in New York in 1943, imagined such a hand-held device would be simple to use and that, one day, everyone in the world would communicate to friends using it. ';
qwip[4]='He\'s planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the fa&ccedil;ade of City Hall with a large, digital "cost of war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions. ';
qwip[5]='Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has finally admitted that Special Forces troops killed two pregnant Afghan women and a girl in a February 2010, raid, in which two Afghan government officials were also killed.';
qwip[6]='Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom - the latter unleashed seven years ago today - have morphed into a single Operation Enduring Occupation, set to bankrupt this country financially as well as morally';
qwip[7]='The county, it turned out, was more than $5 billion in debt -- meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff\'s precincts had to be closed so that Wall Street banks could be paid. ';
qwip[8]='"If they come with tractors," one Afghani widow announced to a chorus of supportive shouts from her fellow farmers, "they will have to roll over me and kill me before they can kill my poppy." ';
qwip[9]='"Vulture" is a hedge fund industry term for the financiers who buy up the right to collect old loans of the world\'s poorest nations, and then use every trick in the book -- from lawsuits to bribery to hiring Henry Kissinger\'s lobby firm -- to muscle destitute countries into turning over their meager foreign aid funds. ';
qwip[10]='Scahill\'s account feels much "closer" than the equivocal, sanitized stuff we got in the mainstream media. It\'s easy to hear figures representing faraway deaths of people we don\'t know; it\'s harder to read about a father picking pieces of his son\'s skull from the back of his car.';
qwip[11]='AIPAC supposedly exists to promote US-Israel relations or, more precisely, to promote them to the point where Israeli policies are never challenged by the United States.  Most important to AIPAC is that the $3 billion aid package sails to Israel unimpeded, no matter what budgets cuts are inflicted here at home and no matter what the current president thinks. ';
qwip[12]='Health care provides a textbook case of an industry plagued by numerous forms of market failure, including moral hazard, adverse selection, and free riding, as well as ad-hoc government interventions.';
qwip[13]='Is this Watergate with holy water? Here\'s a look at some of the ways in which Pope Benedict XVI has found himself caught up in a scandal of Nixonian proportions&#8230; ';
qwip[14]='The pesticides are not a risk to honey sold to consumers, federal officials say. And the pollen that people eat is probably safe because it is usually from remote areas where pesticides are not used, Pettis said. But the PLOS study found 121 different types of pesticides within 887 wax, pollen, bee and hive samples. ';
qwip[15]='"There have been huge advances in maintenance, operations and safety," Reyes says. "There\'s no carbon dioxide, no acid rain. Nuclear has a lot of advantages over coal-fired plants."';
qwip[16]='The world\'s oil reserves have been exaggerated by up to a third, leading UK scientist Sir David King claimed today, warning of oil shortages and price spikes within years.';
qwip[17]='A combination of hot rocks and water like those that created Yellowstone\'s geysers have been tapped by the city to keep the sidewalks toasty since the early 1990s. They also heat downtown buildings, kettles at a brewhouse, and greenhouses and keep the lights on at a college campus. ';
qwip[18]='The Great Pacific Garbage Patch &#8211; or the Pacific Trash Vortex &#8211; is a floating monument to our culture of waste, the final resting place of every forgotten carrier bag, every discarded bottle and every piece of packaging blown away in the wind. Opinions about the exact size of this great, soupy mix vary, but some claim it has doubled over the past decade, making it now six times the size of the UK. ';
qwip[19]='Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the needs of pedestrians and cyclists will be considered along with those of motorists, and he makes it clear that walking and riding are "an important component for livable communities." ';
qwip[20]='The gravity of the economic and social costs for these policies cannot be overstated, especially considering that more than three quarters of women in prison are mothers.';
qwip[21]='Weingarten - head of the American Federation of Teachers and former president of New York\'s United Federation of Teachers - came out in support of a California proposition to legalize pot for personal use. ';
qwip[22]='A spokesman for the DEA declined to elaborate on the reason for such a dramatic rise in seizures of marijuana. ';
qwip[23]='The acquittal of Eugene Davidovich after two weeks of trial in front of Superior Court Judge Kenneth So is the second time in the past four months that juries have found medical marijuana operators not guilty of drug charges. ';
qwip[24]='"It was like walking through a canopied jungle," says Curt Hellmer of Stoughton. "Or rows of mature corn without the thick leaves near the ground."  That\'s how Hellmer, now 55, recalls his childhood experiences some 50 years ago when he used to play in the 8- to 10-foot-tall hemp stalks in his grandfather\'s hemp fields.';
qwip[25]='"It was a whole personality shift for me. I wasn\'t any longer attached to my performance and trying to control things. I could see that the really good things in life will happen if you just show up and share your natural enthusiasms with people."  ';
qwip[26]='Sweet said he invalidated the patents because DNA\'s existence in an isolated form does not alter the fundamental quality of DNA as it exists in the body nor the information it encodes. ';
qwip[27]='More worrying is the likelihood that the cyber attacks that led Google this week to end its cooperation with Beijing-controlled censorship and move its search engine service to Hong Kong included planting undetectable software on American company networks that could allow further clandestine access or even total control of computers in the future. ';
qwip[28]=' &#8216;That\'s a living child,\' I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail. &#8216;It\'s not a child,\' she corrected me. &#8216;It\'s a girl baby, and we can\'t keep it. Around these parts, you can\'t get by without a son. Girl babies don\'t count.\'"';
qwip[29]='Yet what is galling is the frequent absence from these discussions of a central fact: Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Iraqis are dead because of the war, and millions have been displaced, driven out of their homes and out of their country.  ';
qwip[30]='Next week, Sheehan\'s organization _ Peace of the Action _ is staging its most public demonstration yet against the Obama administration, setting up a tent city at the base of the iconic Washington Monument. ';
qwip[31]='In his new book, The Big Short, Michael Lewis writes about people who didn\'t buy in. In fact, they bet against the colossal tower of debt that Wall Street built. They shorted it -- and they profited from its eventual collapse. ';
qwip[32]='In the last four days of trying to keep him alive -- two in intensive care, two in a cancer ward -- our insurance was charged $43,711 for doctors, medicines, X-rays and scans. Two years later, the only thing I know for certain that money bought was confirmation that he was dying. ';
qwip[33]='A Tennessean analysis of pay packages from regulatory filings at the top banks by market share here shows that many banks are beefing up salaries and awarding stock to executives -- shares that can be redeemed for cash within as little as a year. ';
qwip[34]='Now the Justice Department is investigating whether to unwind the merger that put a privately held Nebraska company in control of the voting machines in nearly 70 percent of the nation\'s precincts. ';
qwip[35]='Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a Republican, signed a bill into law on Friday declaring that the federal regulation of firearms is invalid if a weapon is made and used in South Dakota. ';
qwip[36]='This is not a small problem. The cops are making more than a half-million of these stops every year. A vast majority of the people targeted -- close to 90 percent -- are completely innocent.';
qwip[37]='It\'s the priest sex story, the same one we\'ve already done -- and done. But now it\'s popping up in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, all markets which make the American news media yawn. But come on. ';
qwip[38]='In 1999 and 2000, Haddock walked 3,200 miles to draw attention to campaign finance reform. In 2004, at age 94, she ran for U.S. Senate against Republican Judd Gregg.';
qwip[39]='Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but they can be counted on one hand.  Racial caste is alive and well in America.';
qwip[40]='In the past 18 months, Colorado, New Jersey, Michigan and Massachusetts have all passed significant marijuana reforms, either decriminalizing small quantities of the drug for personal use, or expanding access to medical marijuana. ';
qwip[41]='Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces. ';
qwip[42]='Not many years ago, there wasn\'t enough wind power coming from the Great Plains to worry about. Now there is, and lots of people are worrying. ';
qwip[43]='With initial negotiations and surveys already complete, China is now making plans to connect its high speed rail line through 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe in order to connect to the existing infrastructure in the EU.';
qwip[44]='"Because of some lack of education, people are resistant to allowing farmers to grow hemp. That will change when they start looking at the facts."';
qwip[45]='In these instances, where the DNA is often incomplete or degraded and there are few other clues to go on, the reliability of DNA evidence plummets--a fact that jurors weighing such cases are almost never told. As a result, DNA, a tool renowned for exonerating the innocent, may actually be putting a growing number of them behind bars. ';
qwip[46]='According to RSI\'s own surveys, 89% of their knee patients showed marked improvement, as did 75% of their hip patients! Within months some patients can walk or run in ways they haven\'t been able to in years. We\'ve seen these kinds of results from stem cell treatments before, but only in horses and dogs.';
qwip[47]='She posted online the idea of an Internet mapping tool to allow people anonymously to report violence and other misdeeds. Technology whizzes saw her post and built the Ushahidi Web platform over a long weekend.  ';
qwip[48]='He was a tutor in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and Alice\'s search for a beautiful garden can be neatly interpreted as a mishmash of satire directed at the advances taking place in Dodgson\'s field.';
qwip[49]='He also said there are criteria that must be met to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen that include "whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved."';
qwip[50]='Translation: We made a shitload of money last year because we\'re so amazing at our jobs, so fuck all those people who want us to reduce our bonuses.';
qwip[51]='Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements.';
qwip[52]='"Had we known that Massachusetts was in play, we\'d have worked through the Christmas break and might well have been done before the election."';
qwip[53]='He later told an ABC News affiliate that the school mistook a pill-shaped Mike &amp; Ike candy for drugs. The school confirmed that its laptops can remotely monitor Web cam input';
qwip[54]='As Ridge counseled the administration to "put that package together," he sure seemed like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren\'t told was that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation\'s largest nuclear power company.';