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• More Evidence for Suppression of Research: the Case of Lamictal ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests.  I recently (and unfortunately belatedly) came upon yet another example of suppression of research that was unfavorable to a research sponsors vested ...
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• Zizek speaks against charity – Audio

  
  Nima Maleki: Politics and Critical Thought — Authority: 120
  Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, speaks on the topic of charity as an integral part of contemporary capitalism, by bringing consumption and charity together within the same gesture of redemption as an ethics light. You can listen to the audio here, at RSA Events . From 24 November 2009.
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• The Omega Course

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 598
  Id like to update my readers on The Omega Course , a fictional blog narrative which takes the form of a first-person "diary" blog. It is testimony to the realism of the story told by its author, Helen Ingram , that I found myself extremely worried after the final entry , in which the main character expressed ...
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• Rainy Days and Fridays …

  
  The Evolution of Jeremiah — Authority: 129
  It’s raining, wet and cold today. Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle … I didn’t want to get out of bed today but alas, I had that appointment with Prof. Scott over my Origen paper. I have done some preliminary reading of a text that I picked up at the library – but even Prof. Scott told me that it would do me no good. So ...
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• On disappointment

  
  Hummingbird604.com — Authority: 538
  Sometimes, being a perfectionist is kind of annoying, and sometimes it’s disappointing. Despite the fact that I have been down with a cold this week, I’ve been finishing client work that I have needed to submit, dealing with my upcoming courses and the ones I co-teach this term, and trying to get a letter of ...
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• The Best President Goldman Sachs’ Bundled Contributions Could Buy

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 614
  The role of fat cat climate profiteers’ bundled contributions in so-called “climate legislation” by Bill Levinson We read in our morning paper that the Obama Administration promises that proposed carbon regulations will cost American families less than a dollar a day, and will reduce deaths from air pollution. ...
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• Blackwell Announces Its Favourite Books Of The Decade

  
  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 150
  Released on: November 27, 2009, 4:54 amAuthor: Blackwell Industry: RetailBlackwell, the leading academic bookseller has announced its favourite books of the decade. The list of ten books, chosen f r o m the many hundreds published over the last ten years, are a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Blackwell ...
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• Afghan-Canadian governor survives assassination attempt

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-Canadian academic who returned to Afghanistan to serve as governor of the volatile Kandahar province narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Friday.
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• Tamil Nadu finalises unifom school syallabus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Chennai, Nov 27 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Friday announced a common syllabus for school students across the state, applicable from the next academic year.The final syllabus drafted after consultations with academicians was submitted to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi by Minister for School Education Thangam ...
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• Lore is important

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 457
  Lore matters. Its often considered to be low on the list of game features, it wont save a game that is otherwise lackluster or missing content, and it cant be the only reason you play a game. But it still matters, and it still has a lot of importance, and Kill Ten Rats has offered a long essay explaining exactly ...
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• Lore is important

  
  Massively — Authority: 692
  Filed under: Culture , Lore , Opinion , Academic Lore matters. Its often considered to be low on the list of game features, it wont save a game that is otherwise lackluster or missing content, and it cant be the only reason you play a game. But it still matters, and it still has a lot of importance, and ...
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• Sargents Repainting

  
  Gurney Journey — Authority: 514
  I remember reading that John Singer Sargent would often require many sittings to get his portraits right, and that he was rarely satisfied with his first efforts. But I always wondered: Did he scrape off each false start and then begin all over again? Or did he just work over the previous start after it had dried? ...
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• Investmentless recovery ahead?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 537
  Fatas-Mihov Blog  post rarely but whenever they do, it is full of insights. The duo have written some super papers and make a mark in the blogposts as well. In the recent post , they point that recoveries post-recessions in 1991 and 2001 were investmentless. What is interesting in this chart is that the last two ...
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• Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Jonathan Jansen in The Poverty Of Ideas

  
  Jacana — Authority: 471
  William Gumede and Leslie Dikeni have co-edited a book that’s as timely as it is astute in its observations. The Poverty of Ideas questions the apparent dirth of intellectuals in South Africa? Prof Jonathan Jansen, in the news recently for his decision to allow the Reitz Four to return to the University of the ...
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• Ways on How to Cut Cost for Your Graduation Gown

  
  The Market Outfit — Authority: 130
  In order for students to attend graduation ceremonies, each of them must have his or her graduation gown and cap, so as to officially graduate from the schools. Each of this graduation gowns and cap is quite expensive; especially they are only worn once, during the graduation ceremonies. As a result, this article ...
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• The Steps to Learn How to Sew the Collar on the Graduation Gown

  
  The PontiffBot — Authority: 129
  During each graduation ceremony, every student will try to make sure that his or her graduation gown and cap are all in place, so that he or she can attend the ceremony without any error and embarrassment. However, many of these students often forget or do not take note that the collar on the graduation gown is ...
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• 5 More Pages !!!

  
  The Evolution of Jeremiah — Authority: 129
  What did I do today??? I worked on that god damned paper on The Role of Sophia in Gnostic Cosmogony. I worked all evening long. More than three hours worth of reading, typing, checking and double checking. I went over all of my quotes to make sure they were in order – I even begged my prof for less pages and he ...
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• Beyond Gender (The Lakeland Ledger)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 168
  By PATRICK ZIER LEDGER CORRESPONDENT ORLANDO Mary Vander Heiden still laughs about it. Central Florida head football coach George O’Leary was addressing his team and staff when he said something he thought might be offensive to the two women present, Vander Heiden and an academic adviser. Go here to see the ...
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• Rivalry Weekend is Here!

  
  GenXXL — Authority: 141
  Ahhhh, it’s Rivalry Weekend and we can finally get to spoiling and making seasons with games that we all want to call before they’ve begun and yet they never turn out the way we thought.  They just never do.  I suppose you could say that Rivalry Weekend is a form of a playoff because many of these teams play ...
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