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Comment Re:Republicans and Taxes (Score 1) 954

From an idealistic standpoint, I would agree that efficiency is key. However, it has been proven that "efficient government programs" is an oxymoron for our large and culturally diverse county. The only answer is a smaller federal government focused on what it does best and greater economic freedom. This country prospered on self-reliance. We have lost that skill and with it our ability to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Medicine

Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest 921

Stanislav_J writes "A US study suggests that people with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do everything they can to keep them alive as death approaches. The study, following 345 patients with terminal cancer, found that 'those who regularly prayed were more than three times more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging care than those who relied least on religion.' At first blush, this appears paradoxical; one would think that a strong belief in an afterlife would lead to a more resigned acceptance of death than nonbelievers who view death as the end of existence, the annihilation of consciousness and the self. Perhaps the concept of a Judgment produces death-bed doubts? ('Am I really saved?') Or, given the Judeo-Christian abhorrence of suicide, and the belief that it is God who must ultimately decide when it is 'our time,' is it felt that refusing aggressive life support measures or resuscitation is tantamount to deliberately ending one's life prematurely?"
Space

Submission + - Asteroid explodes over Sudan

radioweather writes: "A recently discovered Apollo Asteroid, 2008 TC3, exploded over Sudan at about 1046 EDT on October 7, 2008, according to astronomer Tim Spahr of Harvard University

2008 TC3 was discovered on Monday by an observer at the Mt Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. 2008 TC3 is notable in that it is the first Asteroid of its size that was identified before impact and tracking it put the entire Spaceguard tracking system to an extreme test.

TC3 is estimated to be only two to five meters in diameter but exploded with the force of a one kiloton of explosive power."

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