Bob CollinsIf a police officer is on duty when her husband hunts her down and shoots her to death, did she die in the line of duty?
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We give Timewaster Credit [tm] today to the usual buttoned-down people at the U.S. Census Bureau. They’ve put together the perfect afternoon timewaster during March Madness — a bracket form for city populations.
David Cazares
Now: (via Reuters and the New York Times): A dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore into Shi’ite Muslim districts across Baghdad and south of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda are Read more →
Google has released Street View images of some of the most famous mountains on Earth. Travel vicariously to Mt. Kilimanjaro: View Larger Map And Mt. Everest base camp: View Larger Map Roberto Baldwin has the story on Wired.com: One lucky engineer, who happens to be a passionate mountaineer, led the Google Mountain Enthusiast team during Read more →
Women and men are increasingly feeling stressed about trying to balance work and home functions, a Pew survey out today reports.
Embracing winter: The Beargrease
Where you think bottled spring water comes from may not be close to where it really comes from.
There’s nothing quite so patriotic — occasionally entertaining, and, yes, sometimes loathsome — than the few minutes elected officials on municipal committees give to citizens to says whatever they want to say in the time allotted at the open forum portion of meetings.
In Fergus Falls, you’ll be needing one of these now.
It’s hard to argue with the selection of this year’s winner of the JFK Library’s Profile of Courage Award.
The Transportation Security Administration today changed its list of rule on what is allowed to be carried on board airliners.