Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are spending tens of millions of dollars in Washington to kill “network neutrality” — a principle that keeps the Internet open to all.

A bill moving quickly through Congress would
let these companies become Internet gatekeepers,
deciding which Web sites go fast or slow — and which
won’t load at all — based on who pays them more. The rest
of us will be detoured to the “slow lane,” clicking furiously and
waiting for our favorite sites to download.
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Not content to just sell nuclear plants all over the globe,
the Bush administration now wants to accept nuclear
waste from all around the globe and reprocess it HERE in
the USA.
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Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods) & Aurora Organic, a supplier of private brand name organic milk to Costco, Safeway, Giant and others, who together control 65% of the market, are purchasing the majority of their milk from feedlot dairies where the cows have little or no access to pasture.
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Last day. Sky purple blue black over the Mediterranean outside our sliding glass door. We should have left it open all night to breathe the fresh briney breezes, but we’d fallen asleep quickly after dinner at the Olio Grosso.
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So there we are, travelling back west from Albenga along the Italian Riviera, to sight Cervo, which is a lovely yellow-pink town on a hill. The restoration here is near complete. No houses are rotting like in Gerassio’s borgo medieval with the cold river running past.
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We decided to try the mountains next. Enough of the seaside, the Riviera seaside, as lovely as it could be. Though it did prove to be very crowded on the French side, back west. We would now head for Garessio, up in Piemonte.
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Time to get out of overcrowded Nice. Drive the little rental diesel stick machine along the coast of the Mediterranean to get the feeling of what the Riviera is like. Up over the hills, and down into Villefranche Sur Mer…
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Yes, why not come along for a little trip into one of the loveliest places on Earth? 5 Petite installments. Pictures here. Watch for some surfable waves in the Mediterranean…..Arrival in Nice as this first installment….
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Results of independent laboratory tests in New York show certain as-yet-unnamed USA soft drinks contain as much as four times above the legal benzene limit for drinking water. Benzene, a known carcinogen, is formed when two ingredients in the beverage react with each other: sodium benzoate (a preservative) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
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