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( I'm on my 3rd Linux system - 2nd DualBoot - 2nd Ubuntu  This is how I got it. Just load into memory in Windows. The .exe file sets up a dual boot with a Safe mode backup for Ubuntu. You choose systems via a Boot file which shows on StartUp...and waits for your choice. )
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DREAM Act Still Not Controversial http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2010/09/dream-act-still-not-controvers.html#more

David Bennion on September 23, 2010

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his intent last week to attach the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill that would appropriate money to fund U.S. military operations. Democrats were not able to get 60 votes in support of beginning debate on the bill, so now the future of the DREAM Act is up in the air. The DREAM Act would provide permanent residence to undocumented youth brought to the U.S. as children who complete two years of college or military service. After the vote, DREAMers immediately responded to their network of supporters: Call 202-224-3121 and ask Senator Reid to bring the DREAM Act to the Senate floor as a standalone bill. One persistent feature of media coverage of the DREAM Act is the tendency to characterize the DREAM Act as "controversial" legislation: for example, here, here, and here. But the editorial boards of those same media outlets have overwhelmingly supported passage of the DREAM Act, 14 out of 16 at last count. I have read op-eds by anti-immigrant politicians or advocates that took an anti-DREAM Act position. But I have seen only two opinion pieces from newspaper editorial boards that opposed the DREAM Act on the merits. And each of them mischaracterized some key element of the Act or of the debate.   After Growth, Fortunes Turn for Monsanto http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/05monsanto.html?_r=2&th=&emc=th

 As recently as late December, Monsanto was named “company of the year” by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. “This may be the worst stock of 2010,” he proclaimed. 

Weeds are growing resistant to Roundup, dimming the future of the entire Roundup Ready crop franchise. And the Justice Department is investigating Monsanto for possible antitrust violations. Until now, Monsanto’s main challenge has come from opponents of genetically modified crops, who have slowed their adoption in Europe and some other regions. Now, however, the skeptics also include farmers and investors who were once in Monsanto’s camp. “My personal view is that they overplayed their hand,” William R. Young, managing director of ChemSpeak, a consultant to investors in the chemical industry, said of Monsanto. “They are going to have to demonstrate to the farmer the advantage of their products.” Brett D. Begemann, Monsanto’s executive vice president for seeds and traits, said the setbacks were not reflective of systemic management problems and that the company was moving to deal with them. “Farmers clearly gave us some feedback that we have made adjustments from,” he said in an interview Monday.

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( Many of the peoples called 'Taliban' etc. are - like the Romany - simply traditionally people who have a traveling lifestyle : nomads.  In arid regions seasonal pastures are often a necessity - which makes one wonder about the sanity of killing 'buffalo' and fencing the range. )