Curiously Strong Mints

What about President Bush himself, who was seen iPoding late last year as he went for a bike ride? Did that spur iPod's monster holiday sales?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/...mz026.htm

For decades, Altoids--the "curiously strong" mints--have come in a simple tin box, just like dozens of other mints. Yet Altoids tins have a singular place in modern culture, a place that lends itself to infinite utility.
http://news.com.com/High-tech...08.html?tag=nefd.top


Thanks to Weldon's intervention, Geier has now been able to use the CDC database to compare autism rates among more than 85,000 children who received a TCV for diphtheria/tetanus/acellular pertussis (DTaP) with rates among nearly 70,000 children who got the thimerosal-free version. In the TCV group, the risk of autism was 27 times higher...That means that regularly mandated TCVS were still available until November 2002. And injections of Rho D containing 10.5 micrograms of mercury per dose were on the shelves until April 2003.
http://www.motherjones.com/n.../02_354.html
thanks natalie

President Bush's budget will include $140 billion to expand health coverage for the uninsured and seek $45 billion in savings from the Medicaid program for the poor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services said on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/...politicsNestoryID=7533376
Bush is not that right wing

Buoyed by a higher turnout and less violence than expected in Sunday's Iraqi elections, Pentagon authorities have decided to start reducing the level of U.S. forces in Iraq next month by about 15,000 troops, down to about 135,000, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said yesterday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne../washpost/a61910_2005feb3
Every month the Dems lose things to complain about...

How many people do you have to kill to be considered a serial killer?
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20050204.html

Manalapan just made its first arrest with the new system. But is it a good thing to photograph everyone, including law-abiding citizens? Do we need to videotape the Sunday driver who is just minding his own business?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...=469731&page=1

http://interestingtimes.typepad.cteresting_times/...s.html
http://washingtontimes.com/natio-123544-7508r.htm

The data show that UT and ID are the reddest states, with roughly 65% of residents in both states identifying themselves as GOPers.
http://www.mydd.com/story/200...0006#readmore