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Halloween recipes ideas: what to avoid... in pictures

Wednesday, October 28 2009 17:07 | By D. Scriber |

With Halloween quickly approaching, we decided to step up to save some of our readers from cooking experiments gone bad. Halloween might be the celebration of everything evil, but there are some evils we would not wish on anyone. So without further discussion, here are dscriber's three worst Halloween homemade sweet recipes -- based mainly on how the sweets look. Yes, we're soooooo superficial, but we figure if the cookies look creepy (as in creepy-not-good), nobody will eat 'em and you'll have wasted half a bag of sugar and might well alienate someone important in your life. So dig a deep hole and bury the following recipes -- and don't look back or leave a tombstone.

Where have all the Teddy Roosevelt Republicans gone?

Wednesday, October 07 2009 06:22 | By Richard Cole |

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Standing at Roosevelt Point on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and looking out at the nation’s most exquisite and indescribable natural wonder, it’s impossible not to admire the man who made it possible. President Theodore Roosevelt saw America in a way no previous leader had ever looked at it, and a precious few have looked at it since then. And you can’t help but wonder how Roosevelt’s proud, trust-busting, conservationist Republican Party can have decayed into today’s reactionary remnant that sees global climate change as a Communist plot.

In January 1908, Roosevelt had the courage and foresight to declare the Grand Canyon a national monument, sidestepping a do-nothing Congress and placing conservation and the environment onto the American agenda.

The writing starts now

Monday, October 05 2009 06:44 | By Dan Baum |

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The usual way we work is we go out and do our reporting -- conduct the interviews, dig up the documents -- and then we come back to the desk and write. And when we come upon holes, we pick up the phone, or go back out in the field, to fill them. And so on.

It’s time consuming. But worse, it disengages the reporting from the writing, when really, what we should be striving for, is the unity of the two. I am constantly trying, when out in the field, to be imagining how I’m going to write the thing -- right down to imagining wording.

From Woodstock to Twitter: How we became who we are

Monday, September 14 2009 07:00 | By Amy Green |

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Summer has come and gone, and so has Woodstock's 40th anniversary. Even the music festival that defined a generation now is over-the-hill, although the Ang Lee film "Taking Woodstock" continues to play in theaters.

Certain things belong to certain generations. Here is what belongs to 20- and 30-somethings.

If Woodstock was the defining moment of the boomer generation, ours is perhaps the moment each of us logged onto the Internet.

Mr. President: Use swine flu, national security and your executive authority to implement universal health care

Tuesday, September 08 2009 09:00 | By Richard Cole |

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I submit this proposal for President Obama’s upcoming health care address to Congress and the country:

“Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the American people,

We are currently facing an outbreak of swine flu that threatens the health and safety of our people and the national security of the United States. For some months now, the Congress and the public have debated my bill to cover the health needs of uninsured and underinsured Americans.

I had hoped that this debate would end in a sweeping plan that would protect the United States, as well as bring our health care system in line with every other major industrialized nation.

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