things that can and never should

As of July 28, the national average per gallon was $4.01. How did we get to this point? Watch as gas prices rise and fall from 1993 up until now. Click the play button on the right.

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Washington’s neocons are alive and well, advising both John McCain and President Bush…[and] are saying Bush should permit Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities after Election Day before the new president takes office. ANP investigates as we chase down John Bolton, Bill Kristol and Frank Gaffney to see how far ahead these hawks are thinking.

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Michael Arone has been called every pejorative someone could direct at a transgender teen. But while most harassment the 16-year-old faced has been short-lived, Arone reached a breaking point at a summer school program. Arone, a 10th-grader, is is a male transgender teen who goes by Melissa Andrews and prefers to be referred to as a female.

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Businesses are created every minute of every day, and to one degree or another, they all need graphic design work done. Business cards, invoices, letterhead, envelopes, a website; the list goes on and on. But as a graphic designer are there things we can do to minimize the stress our clients are feeling when they go live with their new enterprise?

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With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is proposing that aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary

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A new study out of the University of California at San Francisco, and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has shown that in eating a diet that is high in fiber rich foods and whole grains, a person has the chance to lower their risk of pancreatic cancer.

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Scientists have identified a form of herpes as the culprit in a widespread viral outbreak that has killed as many as 8 billion French oysters in recent weeks. Experts warn that the great oyster devastation of 2008 will result in a shortage in supplies of the shellfish over the next two years…

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A defender of the Constitution? or Somebody who won’t identify themselves, or how about a “Lone Individual”. Report them to the FBI NOW??? Very interesting FBI brochure!

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How much will you pay? Results of a non-partisan study comparing Obama’s and McCain’s tax plans.

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Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006. Fox has decided that Edwards story needs more attention.

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