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• Alaska Sen Murkowski upset by Tea Party-backed rival (Reuters) September 1, 2010
  Reuters - Senator Lisa Murkowski dropped out of the Republican Senate primary in Alaska on Tuesday, conceding to a Tea Party-backed insurgent in a stunning upset fueled by conservative supporters. […]
• Montana drinking and driving culture at crossroads (AP) August 31, 2010
  AP - Montana has long had a reputation as a place where you could crack open a beer while driving down the interstate just about as fast as you liked. […]
• Creating ePub Files With Pages August 27, 2010
  Interesting: a new iWork ’09 update adds ePub exporting to Pages. (ePub is the standard file format used by iBooks.)  ★  […]
• One of many ways climate disinformers mislead August 23, 2010
  This post by physicist John Cook was first published in Skeptical Science. In science, the only thing better than measurements made in the real world are multiple sets of measurements – all pointing to the same answer. That’s what we find with climate change. The case for human caused global warming is based on many independent lines of evidence. Our underst […]
• Review finds flawed NC cases, including executions (AP) August 18, 2010
  AP - Analysts at North Carolina's crime lab omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions and another where two men were convicted of killing Michael Jordan's father, according to a scathing independent review released Wednesday. […]