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Taser's newest nasty coming to a police force near you! - Popular Science

Specs are:" Size: 12 gauge Weight: 25 grams Speed: 270 ft. per second Range: 100 ft. Current: 1.3 milliamps Get it:When you get your badge—the XREP is for law enforcement only."

Are cadmium-contaminated insects killing endangered meat-eating plants? - Scientific American
Animal drug trials keep mum about failures - New Scientist
When companies are too big to prosecute or even sanction -CNN Money (via Slashdot)

"Prosecutors said that excluding Pfizer would most likely lead to Pfizer's collapse, with collateral consequences: disrupting the flow of Pfizer products to Medicare and Medicaid recipients, causing the loss of jobs including those of Pfizer employees who were not involved in the fraud, and causing significant losses for Pfizer shareholders."

David Shuster moving to CNN? Who cares? - NY Times
"...cable news is either dishwater dull (Anderson Cooper anyone?) or it has unhinged screaming nasties." [comment # 7] Exactly. So why pay money to watch such dreck?