suraj.sun passes along this excerpt from Wired:
"More than 70 academics, mostly legal scholars, are urging President Barack Obama to open a proposed international intellectual-property agreement to public review before signing it. The likely route for that is bringing the [Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] to the Senate for ratification. ...
WASHINGTON -
In the run-up to the U.S. elections set to take place Nov. 2, the
amount of money being spent and eccentricities on display have reached
record levels. This has been particularly obvious in debates over
energy and climate change.
George Bush initially believed the only plane not to reach its intended target during the 11 September ttacks had been shot down on his orders, according to leaks from the former president's memoir of his two terms in office.
all welcome to a planning meeting of RANN at the Hamilton Station Hotel (Beaumont St Hamilton near the railway) in the back room... discuss actions underway and future ones
The years from 1995 to 2007 saw record levels of housing construction in Ireland.
Construction output went up, land and house prices mushroomed and it seemed as if there
was a never-ending bandwagon on which everyone was going to get rich by simply waiting for
their pile of bricks to increase in value.