By John Yardley
IHT.com
June 30, 2008
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With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
Local officials have initiated an all-out effort to clean up the algae by mid-July. Media reports estimate that as many as 20,000 people have either volunteered or been ordered to participate in the operation, while 1,000 boats are scooping algae out of the Yellow Sea. The official news agency, Xinhua, reported that algae currently covered a third of the coastal waters designated for the Olympic races…
Boy, talk about your echo chamber in the media. Yesterday, General Wesley Clark went on CBS’ Face the Nation, and repeated something he’s said many times before. If you missed it, here’s the full 
The AMA’s med student branch, the Medical Student Section, unanimously passed a resolution supporting medical marijuana at the AMA national convention this month. With the other large national med student group, the American Medical Student Association, already supporting it, it looks like therapeutic cannabis has a future in US medicine.
When preteens glimpse a pair of nearly exposed boobs, it can be an intense experience — the sort of thing that makes you spend the rest of your adult life wandering through dark rooms with dollar bills jonesing for one more peek.
When it’s hot, you sweat. When you shave your head and it’s hot, you sweat, but it makes you look like a shiny, dripping, human ice cream cone. Which is why the guys over at HeadBlade, makers of that ingenious razor designed specifically for shaving your head, came up with HeadWipes.
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