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Simon Doonan sat down with supermodel Iman for Harper's Bazaar and he asked her the hard questions, like has she ever thrown a cell phone at anyone. (The answer was no.) She also revealed that she takes more time to get ready than her husband David Bowie does:

Iman: ....Me? I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.More...

Iman Reveals She Was 'Once Very Rude To A Young Model' (PHOTOS)

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Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, isolationist, pro-chaos writers insist that negotiations between the Taliban and Karzai's so-called peace council will yield a result preferable for the Afghan people to the presence of US and NATO Coalition forces. A preview of what a premature US/NATO military exit really means for Afghanistan can be found in two reports, one from Human Rights Watch and the other from Amnesty International.The Human Rights Watch report focuses attention on atrocities committed against Afghan civilians during the 1990s by various warlords, most of whom operated under the guidance and support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI). The report is titled "Blood Stained Hands" and includes tales of people being rounded up simply on the basis of their ethnicity and locked into cargo containers, which were then destroyed with rocket propelled grenades. In some instances, groups of civilians were thrown into prison cells and sprayed with machine gun fire. Militias indiscriminately rocketed residential neighborhoods. All the while, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar's cannons showered the entire city of Kabul with a hail storm of missiles from the surrounding hilltops. The report reveals that the killing, maiming, raping and beating of civilians was widespread.More...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch Report on ISI-Sponsored Hell in Af-Pak

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This is one lizard that you wouldn't want to make angry.While it may look harmless enough using its quick tongue to snatch up helpless ants, which make up 90% of its diet according to National Geographic, it brings out the big guns when threatened with becoming someone's dinner.More...

Lizard Shoots Blood Out Of Eye As Defense Mechanism (VIDEO)

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The Bush camp is quickly pushing back on a British report Tuesday that claimed the former president had been so cold on John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008 that he even suggested he would have been willing to endorse Barack Obama instead."This is ridiculous and untrue," Bush spokesman David Sherzer told Politico. "President Bush proudly supported John McCain in the election and voted for him."More...

Bush Denies Claim That He 'Would Have' Endorsed Obama Over McCain

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SAN FRANCISCO — Increasing energy efficiency is the focus of the first-ever federal guidelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources issued Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Among the suggestions: replacing dirty fuels used to power oil refineries with cleaner sources and requiring more efficient electricity and energy use with existing power plants to reduce emissions – while not requiring expensive technology upgrades.More...

EPA Issues First-Ever Federal Guidelines For Reducing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Excerpted from Disaster on the Horizon: High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well BlowoutPhoom! It was that impossible-to-describe sound that happens when you're too close to the blast to hear the full roar. I could see nothing but orange, black, and red as I was engulfed in an intense, all-consuming heat. It was immediately sickening, and I began to process the fact that I was in serious trouble. At that same instant, I was knocked off my feet and slid headfirst down a muddy slope, plunging into water saturated with chemicals. The fire was overhead now, and I was completely disoriented. Crawling on my belly, underwater, unable to breathe, I was trying to get away from the heat that had permeated my skin. I crawled for what seemed like hours, though it was only seconds -- everything in slow motion.More...

Disaster on the Horizon: A Former Oil Man's Perspective

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One of the most outspoken critics of the war in Iraq is heading back there on military assignment, likely as part of the last arm of a U.S. mission he has vehemently opposed.Jon Soltz, the chairman and co-founder of VoteVets.org, a leading critic of the Iraq war, told the Huffington Post on Wednesday that he was taking a year of absence from the group to deploy to Iraq as part of Operation New Dawn.More...

Jon Soltz, VoteVets Founder, War Critic, Called Up For Military Service In Iraq

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The results are in: After serious consideration, Californians voted against Prop.19.  This proposition has spurred some interesting conversation throughout the country, but in the end, I think it's passing would have been ill-advised.  In the words of Roger Salazar, spokesman for the campaign opposing Prop. 19, "The cover of the book looked nice, but it didn't read very well."As a substance abuse treatment professional, I am thrilled and relieved, and I hope Proposition 19 was rejected because voters looked beyond the surface, examined available information, and made a responsible decision.  Here are some important, straightforward and well-known facts that I hope guided voters in their decision:More...

Prop 19 Rejected: California Doesn't Judge a Book By Its Cover

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Who: Calling all hungry veterans!What: In honor of Veterans Day Gladstones in Malibu is offering free meals for veterans.More...

Gladstones Honors Veterans With Free Meals On Veterans Day

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The publicists of George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, have not put me on their distro list so I don't yet have the book. I may wait until it gets really cheap on Amazon's used bookseller list, but in the mean time, i leafed through a copy that someone on my Abu Dhabi bound plane had.I saw this passage that just seemed to be part of Bush's typical reckless swagger:More...

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