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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 10:30 UTC

What Do Hobbits, Agnostics, and Yahoos Have In Common? They're Famous Authors' Made Up Words

Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurgh." Wacky news events like the Steven Slater ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 10:30 UTC

Underrated: 8 People Who Should Be More Famous Than The Most Overrated People In History (PHOTOS)

Having knocked a few overrated people off their pedestals, it's now time to restore some balance by presenting a few underrated people. By the way, this isn't one of those "unsung heroes" lists. ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 10:30 UTC

The Case of the Missing Agricultural Middle

The recent debate among food writers on the New York Times op ed page and Grist magazine highlighted a glaring problem, one that concerns not only our food system but also our advocacy for a better ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 10:30 UTC

Cutting Meat and Switching Hands to Eat: It's the American Way, Though Not in Films or TV

On a recent trip to Germany, I was cutting my pizza with a knife and fork, and as I brought the food to my mouth, my friend German TV Star Andreas Stenschke said, "What are you doing?" He'd ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 10:05 UTC

An Innovation Even Bigger Than eBooks

This month, the Library of America will publish a stunning box set containing six of Lynd Ward's wordless "novels-in-woodcut." Over 1,600 pages thick and packaged in a deep red, the box set feels and ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 09:40 UTC

Prop23: Who Needs BP When You've Got the Koch Brothers to Overturn California's Climate & Energy Laws?

OPPONENTS OF PROP23 IN CALIFORNIA FACE A DAUNTING NEW OPPONENTSan Francisco, September 2 Late Thursday night, those who support progress on climate & energy policy received bad news that we expected, ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 09:40 UTC

Game On. Overturning California's Climate & Energy Laws the Second Front for Billionaire Koch Brothers & Texas Oil (Prop23)

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 08:27 UTC

Dr Bob Friday College Football Analysis

The college football season starts this week and I've spent many hours analyzing all 120 Division 1A college teams to get ready for another profitable season of analysis at drbobsports.com. I only ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 08:26 UTC

Huff Post review: Machete (2010)

Machete 2010 105 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson It is easy to dismiss the angry political threads running through Robert Rodriguez's Machete. While it's easy to simply say that 'it's just a ...

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Huffington Post, 03.09.10 08:26 UTC

Give them something to lose

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced earlier this week that he will consider Israel fully to blame for the collapse of the negotiations that were scheduled to commence yesterday, ...