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08 Apr 2010 11:05

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World: Thailand’s Red Shirts don’t plan to quit anytime soon

Up next on the Red team’s social agenda: Mass street rally on Friday, in defiance of the country’s state of emergency. source
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08 Apr 2010 11:00

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Culture: Avant-garde film or Nike commercial? Tiger Woods ad a bit odd

  • If you can’t get rid of him, might as well traumatize him. Woods, who lost his beloved father a couple of years ago, gets to hear his voice asking the kind of questions one in Woods’ situation might not want to hear. It’s a vaguely brilliant move on Nike’s part, but on Tiger’s, it doesn’t really help him.
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08 Apr 2010 10:52

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U.S., World: U.S., Russia hang out, catch up, sign big-deal nuclear pact

  • “Hey Dmitry, I’m already here, might as well sign this thang!” While you were being completely unproductive this morning, playing Farmville and catching up on “Saved By the Bell” reruns, our boy Obama was signing a treaty with Dmitry Medvedev to severely scale back both countries’ nuclear ambitions. It’s the first arms treaty the two countries have signed in about 20 years. You should follow his example. source
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08 Apr 2010 10:41

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Tech: Bioprinting: It’s an inkjet printer for skin cells, burn victims!

  • We literally print the cells directly onto the wound. We can put specific cells where they need to go.
  • Wake Forest University student Kyle Binder • On a skin-grafting alternative device which he helped design. The thing works just like a inkjet printer for skin, spraying skin cells onto places that need them. It’s only been tested on mice so far, but bioprinting offers a lot of potential as a replacement for skin grafts, in part because the cells used are so young that they properly grow back into the skin. Mice were first, but pigs (who have similar skin to humans) are next. source
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08 Apr 2010 10:32

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World: Here’s more on the overthrow of the Kyrgyzstan government

  • This isn’t even the first overthrow Kyrgyzstan has had. Five years ago, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the bum who was thrown out (but still hasn’t resigned), rose to power in a similar fashion. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is now in power after this. Although you can’t pronounce Kyrgyzstan’s name, it’s an important country for the U.S., because their Afghan War supply line runs straight through it. Andrew Sullivan has more. The Business Insider has even more than that. source
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08 Apr 2010 10:24

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World: By the numbers: The Kyrgyzstan government overthrow

  • 65+ number of people killed
    in yesterday’s violent
    uprising
  • 400+ number of people
    injured in the
    successful overthrow
  • six number of months the interim government plans to rule source
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08 Apr 2010 01:57

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U.S.: Dear “misunderstanding bomber”: Next time, use nicotine gum

  • We admit it, we were watching a movie when this happened. It was called “The Foot Fist Way.” It stars Danny McBride as a tae kwon do instructor. It was entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining as this mess of accidental terrorism. Like that movie, this story had an anticlimactic ending. Here’s a timeline:
  • 5:19 Plane leaves Reagan National Airport in D.C. and heads to Denver; happens daily.
  • 8:30 Dude lights a smoke because he can’t wait a #(&(&@ hour for the flight to land.
  • 8:40 Military escorts the flight to Denver because they think he has a friggin’ bomb.
  • 10:07 ABC reports that dude is the second coming of the shoe bomber. Others follow.
  • 11:00 It’s proven he didn’t have a bomb, but instead an insane nicotine habit. source
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