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While global warming has definitely been traced to greenhouse gas emissions?and a major source of these emissions is automobiles?new technology for producing cars that reduce this problem has not been forthcoming, mainly because the government has not been willing to demand that big business produce less polluting cars. But the Supreme Court has just voted 5 to 4, striking down the administration’s excuse that the EPA does not have the ability to regulate auto emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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Whitley was one of the first writers to warn about global warming, now learn where he got his information.

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Researchers now think that evolution has more do to with “flower power” than with an asteroid wiping out the dinosaurs, giving us mammals a chance to take over.

In the Independent, Steve Connor reports that a student of the 4,500 species of mammal that are alive today has found that the period when mammals began to thrive and displace dinosaurs happened at the same time as the arrival of flowering plants, between 56 and 34 million years ago, which was 10 to 15 million years AFTER the dinosaurs were gone. Did we mammals love to smell the flowers?or eat the fruit they brought?
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The highest bacteria counts can sometimes be found where you least expect them. Kitchen counters are breeding places for germs?but what about restaurants?

Most restaurants use automatic dishwashers, but small restaurants and bars often wash dishes and glassware by hand. New research answers a basic question about eating and drinking at these places: How clean are manually washed dishes?
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Five years ago, three years before I almost died, I wrote a diary titled Is There Life After Death? That’s a relevant question to ask at Easter, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of their shaman. It was brought home to me in a big way this year because someone I was close to recently died?and another close friend may be about to.

As I put on my favorite necklace today, I was reminded of one of my favorite people, who died a few months ago. This necklace has a pendant that looks like a “smiley face” with two “diamond” eyes, that Whitley gave me shortly after I got out of the hospital.
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