Archive for September, 2005
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
I must admit this post is much more for my benefit than anyone else's, but I found a nice way to put a tilde under a character in LaTeX. I found this method from a post in the Usenet archives, and it seems to work fairly well. Placing the following ...
Posted in LaTeX | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Cindy Sheehan, the prominent anti-war activist whose son died while stationed in Iraq in 2004, met with Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) yesterday to discuss the Iraq War. After the meeting, Ms. Sheehan had some choice wars for Senator McCain:
"He is a warmonger, and I'm not," said Sheehan.
I understand Ms. Sheehan's ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
A recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine claims that Boston-area emergency rooms saw fewer patients when the Red Sox were winning in last year's baseball playoffs. Specifically, the games that attracted the largest television viewership (e.g., the last few games in the Yankees series and all of ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
I had a decidedly disturbing experience at Target today. I went in to pick up various toiletry items, a roll of duct tape, some packaging tape, and a pocket knife. First, I offer a little backstory. I went to a concert recently with Heather and Paul, about which I previously ...
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Less than two weeks after the resignation of Michael Brown, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Lester Crawford, has followed suit. Mr. Crawford resigned today, bringing to a close three years of much bad press for the Administration.
Several ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Two friends of mine, Matt Carey and Nick Vitolo, and Matt's younger sister, Colleen Carey, went to the Astrodome in Houston on September 2, 2005, to conduct interviews with evacuees who were willing to tell their stories in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Matt cut the footage into a ten ...
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