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...brand-new ones, when citizens finally come out and dance, a purple-thumb day, a velvet revolution. A hundred thousand people came out in red states to hear Obama; a hundred fifty thousand turned out in purple ones, even after all this time, when they should have been sick to death of Hope and Change. In Michigan, people put an electric fence around their yard sign to protect it. NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station sent a video message encouraging people to vote; they did, from 200 miles up. A judge in Ohio ruled that homeless people could...
...Last year, a Humane Society undercover investigation of at a California meat packing plant led to the largest beef recall in U.S. history. (Cows too sick to stand were hoisted to slaughter on fork lifts, among other abuses.) Do you worry about the psychological impact of that undercover work? We have professional investigators. It takes a special person to be able to witness and document abuse and not be emotionally traumatized by it. I do worry about post traumatic stress disorder with our investigators because they see the worst things that humans do to other creatures...
...Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
...thought it was just going to be a big library. I liked the buildings and the history.” “I would come here,” she added, “but I don’t like the weather. You always get sick. Also, I don’t know if you have talent scouts here—I want to be an actress and I’m very good at it. We don’t have school plays, but if there were to be one I would be the star...
...mandatory slim-down program met with little resistance. In Amagasaki, the city’s anti-metabo theme song blasts at local gyms:“Goodbye, metabolic. Let’s get our checkups together. Go! Go! Go!Goodbye, metabolic. Don’t wait till you get sick. No! No! No!”Maybe as an American I’m just desensitized to obesity, but the last time I went to Tokyo, I don’t think I saw a single fat person. And that was in March, right before the slim-down program went...