Kristy’s NewsCloud Journal http://Kristy.newscloud.com Just another Newscloud.com weblog Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 en Race and the white coat http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/race-and-the-white-coat/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/race-and-the-white-coat/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:52:34 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/race-and-the-white-coat/ story photo

Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/race-and-the-white-coat/feed/ Let’s dump “Earth Day” http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day-2/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day-2/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:51:23 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day-2/ story photo

Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day-2/feed/ Let’s dump “Earth Day” http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:51:23 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day/ Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/04/21/lets-dump-earth-day/feed/ Reason Magazine - Why are People Having Fewer Kids? http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/26/reason-magazine-why-are-people-having-fewer-kids/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/26/reason-magazine-why-are-people-having-fewer-kids/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:08:57 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/26/reason-magazine-why-are-people-having-fewer-kids/ Perhaps it’s because they don’t like them very much.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/26/reason-magazine-why-are-people-having-fewer-kids/feed/ US may shoot down satellite Wednesday http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/us-may-shoot-down-satellite-wednesday/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/us-may-shoot-down-satellite-wednesday/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:35:32 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/us-may-shoot-down-satellite-wednesday/ story photo

An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile - possibly on Wednesday night - would be the first real-world use of this piece of the Pentagon’s missile defense network.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/us-may-shoot-down-satellite-wednesday/feed/ Wal-Mart Can Be Good For Your Health http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/wal-mart-can-be-good-for-your-health/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/wal-mart-can-be-good-for-your-health/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:01:40 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/wal-mart-can-be-good-for-your-health/ The medical establishment is opposed to drop-in clinics in Wal-Marts and other retail stores. But self-interested doctors need to get over their archaic ways of doing business

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2008/02/19/wal-mart-can-be-good-for-your-health/feed/ No Music Day http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/11/22/no-music-day/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/11/22/no-music-day/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:06:09 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/11/22/no-music-day/ Britain’s No Music Day offers a welcome hush over a noisy world. It can’t come to America soon enough

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/11/22/no-music-day/feed/ Katha Pollitt, confessional memoir http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/katha-pollitt-confessional-memoir/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/katha-pollitt-confessional-memoir/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:19:20 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/katha-pollitt-confessional-memoir/ Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What’s wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/katha-pollitt-confessional-memoir/feed/ Garrison Keillor, Giving up bottled water http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/garrison-keillor-giving-up-bottled-water/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/garrison-keillor-giving-up-bottled-water/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:30:57 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/garrison-keillor-giving-up-bottled-water/ If I can give up bottled water, then it’s time for conservatives to face up to the disaster they visited on this country with the election of Bush.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/26/garrison-keillor-giving-up-bottled-water/feed/ Streetcar’s unfortunate acronym seems here to stay http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/18/streetcars-unfortunate-acronym-seems-here-to-stay/ http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/18/streetcars-unfortunate-acronym-seems-here-to-stay/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:23:24 +0000 Kristy http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/18/streetcars-unfortunate-acronym-seems-here-to-stay/ story photo

Officially, it’s now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they’re waiting for the SLUT.

Read the full story

]]> http://Kristy.newscloud.com/2007/09/18/streetcars-unfortunate-acronym-seems-here-to-stay/feed/