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No word yet on whether the Nevada supreme court will make MSNBC let Dennis Kucinich take part in its Democratic debate tonight. But while you're waiting, you can read NBC's petition for an emergency hearing to vacate the county court judge's injunction. Courtesy of the New York Times. They have about 2 hours to settle this before showtime. Tricia McKinney 6:58 PM ET | 01-15-2008 | permalink | comments (0) | e-mail post | trackbacks (0) .
Why I love/hate: New York and Boston
Each week I throw a blog out there asking you all to tell CBS Sports why you love or hate someone or something. We don't care for middle grounds in this blog. Middle grounds are for people much more sane than we are. Since it's Super Bowl week and we've already done Tom Brady, Eli Manning and the Patriots, let's think bigger. Let's think cities. Let's think Boston and and New York. Let's think love and hate. So share with us why you love or hate Boston or New York and if you have time you can check out previous Love/Hate videos here. How it works is ... comment back on the blog with something like "I hate New York because a pastrami sandwich requires a down payment and that Babe Ruth guy, yeah, he was overrated." Or "I love Boston because we're like the Force and New York is the Empire and you have to like the Force or else you're a communist." Something like that.
A year to trumpet taters
This is one in an occasional series of columns that looks at why food is more than just the meal in front of us. The roast chicken and baked sweet potatoes just bursting with all those orange-colored vitamins were wonderful Saturday night, but when it came time for Sunday dinner I really wanted a heaping mound of mashed potatoes to go with that leftover chicken, as well as a ladle or two of gravy. I shouldn't be so quick to apologize for craving the starchy white spud, because in actuality it packs a lot of vitamin C. Plus, it's fat, sodium and cholesterole-free. All that changes, of course, if you're like me and slather both butter and sour cream on a baked potato. A few years back, some renegade medical person, who obviously was not beholding to the huge pharmaceutical corporations, made the connection that instead of popping Prozac, depressed people should be eating potatoes.
Finalists revealed for NZ's global business award
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards enables us to celebrate our entrepreneurs’ achievements and share with New Zealanders the contribution these unique individuals make to our society and our economy. “The lifeblood of New Zealand business is entrepreneurs such as this year’s finalists, people who have developed and taken their ideas, products and services to New Zealand markets and beyond to selected international markets,” he said. Category winners will be announced in mid-October, and New Zealand’s 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year will be announced at an award banquet on November 14, 2007 in Auckland. ENDS
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Finalists
David Bennett
Pacific Helmets NZ Limited
www.pacifichelmets.com Wrapping His Head Around Protecting Yours If you are a fireman, a cyclist, someone involved in search and rescue, engaged in fighting rioters, or merely a motorcycle buff, chances are your head is encased in one of accountancy-trained David Bennett’s creations.
1968: First astronauts orbit Moon
The Apollo 8 spacecraft has taken its crew of three astronauts safely into orbit around the Moon, the first manned space mission to achieve the feat. The climax of the mission began at 0959 GMT, when Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were about 78 miles (125 km) from the Moon. Right on schedule, the crew fired their rocket engine to send Apollo 8 into the first of 10 elliptical lunar orbits. The engine burned for just over four minutes, and then suddenly the avid audience of television-watchers on Earth had the first-ever eyewitness account of the lunar surface from astronaut James Lovell. "The moon is essentially grey," he said. "No colour. Looks like plaster of Paris. Sort of a greyish beach sand." Lost contact Shortly afterwards, the spacecraft passed out of contact with mission control in Houston, travelling into the dark side of the Moon - never seen directly by humans before, as it always faces away from the Earth.
Golf: Hybrid clubs the way to go
During the 1994 US Open at Oakmont Country Club, there were players in the field, such as Davis Love III, using 1 and 2-irons but in the 2007 Open at the same course, 1-irons were as rare as a good lie in the rough.
Very few players carried 2-irons and even the number of 3-irons has reduced considerably.
He said the bags of the Tour pros are starting to reflect whats been happening for the past few years that hybrid clubs are the way of the present and future for them and recreational players.
It has come to a point where if you do not have a hybrid club then you are not a complete player, he added.
The hybrid market has mushroomed to the point that after drivers, hybrids share second place with fairway woods.
Adams Golf is selling integrated sets of clubs where hybrids are a standard part of the set, instead of added after the irons have been purchased.
Gardening Gloves
But when it comes to my homemade banana or spiced pumpkin bread, he gladly jumps on board the natural bandwagon. One of the ingredients I use really makes them pop ... so that as you're eating your second or third muffin you're wondering, "what is that great nutty flavor?" It's flax. Flax is high in omega 3 fatty acids, like salmon, and may benefit the heart and lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and have anti-cancer properties. It may lessen the severity of diabetes, and can be used as a laxative. While whole it will last longer than when it's milled (flaxmeal), so you need to pay attention to how long you've had your flaxseed meal ...Click here to read the rest of the post and view comments. .
Mike Wallace recovering from bypass
Television news journalist Mike Wallace attends the 2007 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards Gala in this Jan. 15, 2008, file photo in New York. Wallace was recovering from triple heart bypass surgery that was performed last week, CBS News said Tuesday, Jan. 29. Wallace, who turns 90 this spring, is already walking following the surgery Friday to bypass blockages near his heart. Doctors are calling the operation "a great success," the network said. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) .
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