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...single (beautiful) photograph taken by amateur enthusiast David J. Nightingale of Blackpool, England. Tiny arrows at the top left-hand corner of the page allow you to view other images; to scan Nightingale's entire online portfolio (some 543 images to date), click on Thumbs. The Archives section offers a detailed description of each image, including how it was shot (which camera, type of lens, shutter speed, etc.). The Snowsuit Effort is also excellent; featuring close-ups of the individuals photoblogger Ryan Keberly meets on the streets of Detroit and the things they say. For a Top 100 list...
...primarily where to buy stuff online, whether you need particular items for cooking or serving (meat, cheese, nuts) or complete meals delivered to your door. The main menu on the home page is essentially a list of lists, but it's comprehensive and fairly well-organized-the Food Reads section, for example, is divided into magazines, books, blogs and recipe sites. The Organic Foods page, under Healthwise, has 19 links...
...spying authority of the Pentagon and the Beltway's bureaucratic heavyweight, Donald Rumsfeld. House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra tells TIME he's dropping legislation that would have more formally enshrined in law the tradition that the CIA coordinates human spy operations outside the U.S. The provision-Section 401 of the intelligence authorization bill now making its way through the House-would have subjected intelligence operations by agencies like the Pentagon and FBI to "coordination" under a process to be developed by CIA director Porter Goss and director of national intelligence John Negroponte. The move would have represented a victory...
...Sunday afternoon in July, 13-year-old Elizabeth Tomas was sitting at her bedroom window in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. She was putting on her makeup when a bullet came through the window and hit her just above the left eye. Tomas, who had just started high school, was the innocent victim of a random gang shooting. After visiting her in the hospital, L.A.'s new mayor, James Hahn, put up a $25,000 reward for information on the crime. "If a young girl can't stay in her bedroom safely," he says, "we are in terrible...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...