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- Congress, candidates call credit card companies on the carpet
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Just in time for the holiday season, the 110th Congress has renewed its push for credit card companies and lenders to clean up their act. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, who sits on the Senate’s Homeland Security and Gov’t Affairs Committee, is chairing a hearing today on unfair credit card interest rate hikes, featuring three financial industry bigwigs against three undoubtedly angry consumers...
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- Real heroes refuse to shut up and sing
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  'The US vs. John Lennon' chronicles the egregious lengths the US gov't went to in order to silence an artist who had the audacity to speak out. Of course, Lennon came from an age when artists did that sort of thing, and he wasn't the only one to get on the authorities' nerves. But we don't live in that world anymore...
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- Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  The big news in the tech world this week was Google's unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to share files and information across different platforms. Noticeably absent from the alliance supporting OpenSocial were the two 800-lb. gorillas of the social networking world...
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- Burnt By The Man
  Posted by Damianmann from Motherjones
  How copyrighting, capitalism, and lawsuit chaos disturbed the radical utopia of Burning Man.
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- More Women Requesting Cosmetic Surgery on their Genitals
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  When you hear cosmetic surgery, what comes to your mind are tummy tucks, facelifts and breast augmentations. All these doubtless have their devotees, but a growing number of women are now also having cosmetic surgery on their genitalia. Genitalia, did I hear right? Yes, you heard right. Cosmetic surgery on genitalia has become the hottest trend in just a few short years, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and other sources. Another recent report from the NHS in Britain c
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- Lawyers, ethics and corporate culture
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Lawyers say a corporate counsel is in the best position to help the company build an ethical culture. But that won’t always work. Just ask the people at Herwlett-Packard.
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- The Bathroom as Status Symbol.
  Posted by chuckt from Slate
  This is so true. The previous owner of our house converted a bedroom into a bathroom!
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