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A new display ban on cigarettes in English shops comes into being. Is that right? (Poll)

Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:13 AM EST

By Ms CYPRAH

From Monday 9 November, British lawmakers have agreed a new display ban on cigarettes in shops and vending machines.

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health, uk, england, ireland, cigarettes, nhs, duty, shops, vending-machines, tobacco-industry

How to break up with a girlfriend

Sat Nov 7, 2009 9:46 AM EST

By Ms CYPRAH

How to break up with a girlfriend

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home-garden, relationship, communication, girlfriend, break-up, listening, respect-honesty

The Audacity of Nope

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 8:48 AM EST (AL JAZEERA)

Seeded by truthlover (Clipped by truthlover)

No one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.

politics, climate-change, usa, africa, america, barcelona, copenhagen, reducing-carbon-emmission

Computer models 'overstate species risks' if you ignore the microclimate significant at smaller scales

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 8:39 AM EST (BBC News)

Seeded by The Incredulous One

Some large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of climate change on biodiversity in some regions, researchers have suggested.

science, environment, computer, climate, biodiversity, vegetation, coomputer-modeling, microclimate

NJ jurors convict Fla. man in 'fat defense' trial

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 7:27 AM EST (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Seeded by maddad

A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

odd-news, crime, trial, courts, victim, jury, convicts, son-in-law, amn-of-murder, fat-defense

Court upholds removal of man after Nazi salute

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 7:14 AM EST (wtsp.com)

Seeded by maddad

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.

us-news, federal-appeals-court, after-arrest-nazi-salute, refusing-to-leave, ruled-city-council-did-not-violate-mans-rights

How Does a Religious Cult Have the Clout to Delay Health Care Vote?

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:35 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

Seeded by Carloz

Led by Rep.

politics, obama, democrats, congress, republicans, gop, healthcare, abortion, conservatives, catholic-church

5-year-old found wandering after teacher's mistake

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:27 AM EST (ABC Action News)

Seeded by maddad

A Polk County elementary school is reworking its dismissal policy after a teacher accidentally put a child on the bus.

education, mistake, bus-driver, 5-year-old-girl, child-warned-school-staff, dropped-of-in-neighborhood, found-wandering-after-put-on-wrong-bus, reworking-dismissal-policy

Cops bust moonshiners

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:23 AM EST (ABC Action News)

Seeded by maddad

Set the clock back 70 years. Polk County Sheriff's deputies say they've busted up a still and arrested two moonshiners.

odd-news, crime, arrest, annonymous-tip, clocks-back-70-years, dismantled-still, for-own-use, moonshiners, two-men-arrested

Are you doing anything in public you shouldn't be - maybe grooming yourself and grossing people out?

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:04 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by The Incredulous One

These days, if someone seated near me on my morning ride is putting on makeup, someone else is clipping his fingernails (and, on one odd occasion this summer, a toenail). Or they're plucking eyebrows, tying ties, squeezing pimples, even spraying perfume.

behavior, public, habits, hygiene, grooming

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