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...Given bird flu fears and pure aesthetics, no one wants to see flocks of shiny black birds stiff on the sidewalk. But weakened birds will continue to die when temperatures dip and, if they land on a busy downtown boulevard, even in a city like Austin where bird lovers abound, they will spark yet another debate in the war on grackles that is being waged across the country and the methods being used to curb the grackle population. In order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made...
...taken photos of the house where they live, and that on one occasion a government soldier interrupted an N.P.A. radio communication to announce: "If you kill our colleagues, we'll kill your children." Executive Secretary Ermita says the accusation that the military would threaten or target children "is pure N.P.A. propaganda. If that really happened, the commanding officer would have known and we would have known. The soldier would have been punished...
...Carrie Underwood because she knew who she was. She knew she was a country music girl. She made the right kind of record and it was the biggest debut record in Idol history. Kelly Clarkson also knew who she was and has done her thing. And from a pure talent level I also love Fantasia. Her version of "Summertime" was the best Idol performance ever. It was crazy...
...Madison and meditate inside his functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tube while he measured their brain activity during various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but got a crash course in the basic techniques. During the generation of pure compassion, a standard Buddhist meditation technique, brain regions that keep track of what is self and what is other became quieter, the fMRI showed, as if the subjects--experienced meditators as well as novices--opened their minds and hearts to others...
...many, many conservative groups - and I won't say Christian groups, but many of them are - say it is the parents who have a right to decide what happens to [their] children. They argue that if you are good folks who raise your daughter to be chaste and pure until she reaches her marriage bed, she won't need this...