Daily Archives: April 9, 2004

Chocolate is good for you

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

If you’re a pregnant woman, anyway. LONDON (Reuters) – Pregnant women rejoice. Eating chocolate is good for the baby, say Finnish researchers. Scientists at the University of Helsinki, who asked 300 pregnant women to record their chocolate consumption and stress … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Food, glorious food | 1 Comment

Saint-Exupery’s plane found

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Pieces of an airplane that were found recently have been definiteively identified as being from the plane Antoine Saint-Exupery was flying when he was last seen. The mystery of the death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who celebrated the mysteries of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Around the world | 2 Comments

Kournikova a no-go

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

What were the odds of this? With the Astros and Giants doing battle down at Minute Maid Park the previous three nights, media coverage of the River Oaks International had been bare bones at best. But the TV tower and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Other sports | 2 Comments

Smokey Joe refuted

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Guess what? All that pollution from the cement plants in nearby Ellis County really does make a difference to Dallas and Fort Worth, despite what Smokey Joe Barton says. Environ International, in a study to be released today, reports that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in The great state of Texas | 1 Comment

The taxes of sin

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

Governor Perry finally laid out his school finance reform plan yesterday, and I will give him credit for one thing: he’s finally recognized that some new money needs to be injected into the system. Reaction to his announcement was better … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Budget ballyhoo | 4 Comments

The Great Divide

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

If you haven’t read the Statesman’s two-parter on the decline of mixed-politics communities (Part One, Part Two), I recommend checking them out. A couple of my own thoughts: As author Bill Bishop noted in Lasso, the numbers he plays around … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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