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Quoted: Medical personnel stabilize Standard-Examiner photographer Ryan McGeeney's leg after he was pierced by a javelin directly below his right knee. RYAN MCGEENEY/Standard-Examiner

Quoted: “To be able to go to your enemies and give them something that makes them happy is a most fulfilling adventure,”

i love that quote

Quoted: it's worth remembering that neither history nor the First Amendment are underwritten by corporate entities.

the blog mentioned in shiwani's fave.

someone I met at the conference in dc had this interesting commentary about it..

Quoted: The vendors continue to come up with newer, faster, cheaper equipment. The iceberg’s either growing wider or has already been hit, but the wine is flowing and the band plays on.

Berkeley J. School Student.

Quoted: Egypt: American freelance photojournalist and translator detained while covering riots

starting soon.

I've been hearing more and more good things about al jazeera coverage.

to paraphrase something that helga heard from a bbc foreign corresponded in burma:

al jazeera has a young team and amazing coverage. they just don't know how to package it all as nicely as bbc or cnn (the masters of packaging). if they figure that out, they'll start kicking our butts.

apparently they are just pumping money into hiring the best people.

Quoted: a cigarette is the most powerful delivery system for toxic chemicals among consumer products,