Rules for a USA.gov contest offering $2,500 for the best 30-to-90-second video showing how people use the site, with entries uploaded to YouTube from February 22 and due by 1 p.m. EST on April 2, 2010.
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Perspectives on Breast Cancer, Infidelity and 2010 Feminism with New York Times' Gail Collins
In a Q&A on her book When Everything Changed, New York Times columnist Gail Collins discusses why a second women's movement was needed after suffrage, Alice Paul ordering black suffragists to the back of the 1913 Washington parade, and young women's hostility to the word feminism.
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FDA: Ear Candles: Risk of Serious Injuries
The FDA warns consumers and clinicians not to use ear candles, saying it has found no valid scientific evidence for any of the claims made for them. Reports include burns, perforated eardrums and blocked ear canals needing outpatient surgery; some are marketed for use in children.
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Professor Bruce Hollis and The Dark Report are presenting a 90 minute Audio Conference on Vitamin D (PR)
A promotional notice for a 90-minute, $245 audio conference on vitamin D with Professor Bruce Hollis and The Dark Report, covering testing methods, sources and metabolism, recent clinical studies, and the debate over sufficient blood levels.
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DOJ closes the anthrax case
The Justice Department and other agencies closed the 2001 anthrax investigation, reaffirming that Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who killed himself in 2008, acted alone. A 92-page summary and about 2,700 pages of FBI documents were released; the attacks killed five and sickened 17.
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What May Be the Single Biggest Threat to Your Health?
Mercola relays reports that the UK government is trying to offload a billion pounds of unwanted swine flu vaccine after the predicted pandemic never arrived, and argues the WHO-led warnings followed a familiar pattern of scares inflated well beyond the evidence.
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How can I save money?
A USA.gov consumer page pointing to money-saving resources, including the FCIC's “66 Ways to Save Money” brochure, Department of Energy home energy information and the FTC's Money Matters site, with a caution that product information found online is often biased toward paying advertisers.
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Are You a Victim of Farming's Drug Problem?
A look at the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would phase out non-therapeutic use of medically important antibiotics in livestock. An earlier Kennedy version got no traction; the House bill has backing from 300 groups, including the AMA and the pediatricians.
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Where can I learn about the Olympics?
A USA.gov reference page on the Olympics: the ancient games from 776 BC to AD 393, the modern revival by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894, the Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010 games, and where to find the IOC, USOC, Paralympic and Special Olympics resources.
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xbox live down
Xbox.com says the service is running again after an unexpected outage during which the site apologised for the inconvenience. The piece notes the downtime is separate from reported plans to close original Xbox services on April 15, and runs through what free and gold memberships include.
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Chinese New Year 2010
A rundown of Chinese New Year customs: 2010 is the year of the Tiger and lunar year 4708, the first day falls between late January and mid-February, and the Spring Festival runs 7 to 15 days. New Year's eve dinner is the biggest event, followed by days of visiting family and friends.
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Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys
Mercola reprints a statement by Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey claiming Andrew Wakefield's Lancet retraction is part of a vaccine-industry smear campaign meant to suppress new primate studies they say found vaccinated monkeys lost reflexes critical for survival.
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Where can I learn about the U.S. presidents?
A USA.gov reference answer pointing readers to White House and Library of Congress material on former presidents, with the correct way to address a letter to one and a note that Presidents' Day falls on the third Monday in February.
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Google to offer super fast broadband network
Google says it wants to build and test a fiber-optic network fast enough to download a gigabyte in a second, and has been talking to states and municipalities. It expects 50,000 to 500,000 participants but has not chosen a site or set a timeline.
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What is National Donor Day?
A USA.gov page on organ and tissue donation: note your intent on your driver's license, carry a donor card and tell your family, with suitability decided at the time of death and parental consent required under 18. Whole-body donation to medical science generally rules out organ donation.
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Where can I learn about Abraham Lincoln?
A USA.gov reference page on Abraham Lincoln, noting his birth in Hardin County, Kentucky, his 1861 inauguration and 1864 re-election, his assassination on April 14, 1865, and links to material on his boyhood home, the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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This Will be MUCH Better than the New Apple iPad
Mercola points to a video prototype of the Mag+ magazine reader, calling it a far better product than the iPad Apple had just announced, and notes that tech bloggers, most of them Apple fans, voted the tablet down over its missing features.
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What is the Great Backyard Bird Count?
A USA.gov guide to backyard bird feeding points to Fish and Wildlife Service pamphlets on feeders, birdhouses and problem birds, and to the Great Backyard Bird Count, a four-day February census open to beginners and experts; the 2010 count ran February 12 to 15.
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