Huffington Post: Read the Latest News from the U.S. [March ‘11 Diet]

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For the past year, Food52.com readers have been voting in weekly showdowns of reader-submitted recipes on a given theme. The winning recipes of each week will end up in Food52's upcoming cookbook, along with bios of the people who submitted them (Food52 explains the process in simple detail here).Food52 and its co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs have invited HuffPost Food readers to vote on week 27's contest (of the second year, and the second book).More...

Source: The Best Carrot Recipes From Food52.com

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Although the royal family usually covers the entire cost when someone gets hitched, the Middletons will be supplying a six-figure amount for Prince William & Kate's impending wedding, Vanity Fair reports.VF adds:More...

Source: Carole & Michael Middleton To Pay Six-Figure Amount For Royal Wedding

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Japan has repeatedly been referred to as the "most prepared nation in the world" for an earthquake or tsunami disaster. The government has been praised for its readiness via earthquake/tsunami drills, for the prompt organization of the National Self-Defense Forces, and for its preparedness to send in doctors and volunteers. But "being prepared" means even more than that.Japan also does a stellar job of preparing the individual for a crisis. In Japan, every person knows exactly what to do in an emergency.More...

Source: Japan: The Most Prepared Nation

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By Jim Morris And Aaron MehtaThe Center For Public IntegrityMore...

Source: Reactors At Heart Of Japanese Nuclear Crisis Raised Concerns As Early As 1972, Memos Show

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Although I'm a first-night Manhattan critic who saw Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark for the first time only three days before its most recently scratched March 15 opening, what follows is not a review.  Okay, having seen it from start to finish, I admit this is a review to the extent that I agree with the consensus on its unsatisfying qualities expressed by colleagues in responses written just after the previous postponed February 7 premiere.On the other hand, I'm not certain I'd join one prominent naysayer who suggested that Julie Taymor's highly publicized production (score by Bono and The Edge, libretto by Taymor and Glen Berger) may rank as one of the worst musicals ever.  After all, a writer must be careful about registering such a negative superlative when there've been so many bottom-of-barrel-scraping tuners over the past however many decades.More...

Source: First Nighter: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Turns Off the Past

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TOKYO -- The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant says a fire has broken out again at its No. 4 reactor unit.(SCROLL DOWN FOR LATEST UPDATES)More...

Source: Japan Nuclear Plant Erupts In Fire, Two Workers Missing

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Today, a rare thing happened in the United States Senate.  A major bill was unveiled aiming to invest in America's infrastructure.  It has bipartisan sponsors -- Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).  Tom Donohue (President and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce) and Richard Trumka (President of the AFL-CIO) stood up at the press conference to endorse it.  The bill would create an American Infrastructure Bank.This American Infrastructure Financing Authority would invest in projects of regional and national significance across a number of sectors from transportation to water to energy.More...

Source: Kerry's American Infrastructure Bank

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted President Obama in a Facebook post on Tuesday, accusing his administration of intentionally pushing energy policies designed to drive up the price of gas."His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security," Palin wrote, before laying out three arguments that she used as proof that Obama was working to turn the thumbscrews at the gas pump.More...

Source: Sarah Palin: Obama To Blame For High Gas Prices

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There was once was a fellow named NewtWho gave his first two wives the bootMore...

Source: Newt 2012: I Cheat, Therefore I Am (a Patriot)

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SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The Idaho House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a measure allowing guns -- in plain sight or concealed -- on public university and college campuses.More...

Source: Idaho Gun Bill That Would Allow Concealed Firearms On College Campuses Passes State House