Scout Rigel

Rigel pays the bills as a freelance writer, in addition to a bunch of misc projects that have yet to get off the ground. She spends her free time sleeping in way too late, walking her dog, and thinking up hair-brained ideas she'll probably never get around to trying.

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Is universal health insurance on the horizon?
This story has mostly positive ratings. 98 votes / 1 sink

Is universal health insurance on the horizon?

News – The calls for a far-reaching redesign of the health care system are as loud as they were in 1993, when a newly elected Bill Clinton tried to persuade Congress to enact a form of national insurance ΓΆβ;¬" the last time a president took on the issue.

View Story Discuss (82) (msnbc.msn.com) 1 day ago by Monte G

Voted for on August 19, 2007 10:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

Chop Veggies Once a Week

Food – Every Sunday, I chop a million vegetables and fruits that my kids can feed off all week. Melon, strawberries, celery, carrots, peppers, tomatoes. I call it "clean food."

View Story Discuss (1) (realsimple.com) 1 day ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on August 19, 2007 10:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Food Shortages Loom Across South Asian Nations

Food – Food shortages loom in South Asian nations hit by torrential rains, floods and landslides affecting more than 28 million people, the United Nations said on Saturday.

View Story Discuss (0) (thenews.com.pk) 1 day ago by Neophile

Voted for on August 19, 2007 10:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

Weak Oversight Gives Organic Food a Credibility Problem

Food – The organic industry has gone wild in the last decade, but you wouldn't know it at the Department of Agriculture.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 1 day ago by Neophile

Voted for on August 19, 2007 10:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / 3 sinks

Bat Breath Reveals The Identity Of A Vampire's Last Victim

Science – Vampire bats that live in Latin America have switched to blood meals from cattle instead of from rainforest mammals, ecological physiologists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin.

View Story Discuss (3) (sciencedaily.com) 1 day ago by property

Voted for on August 19, 2007 10:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Flat, Simple and Funny: The World of Charley Harper

Art & Design – Charley Harper was a local hero, unknown for years outside southern Ohio. He gravitated to limited edition silkscreens, and his style became ever more refined. As his work increased in rigor and precision, its debt to modernism became more pronounced, as did its connection to the output of other designers

View Story Discuss (0) (designobserver.com) 3 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / 1 sink

Crateman Ventures Into The City of Melbourne

Art & Design – Melbourne will never be the same again, now that Crateman has made his way into the city.

View Story Discuss (0) (woostercollective.com) 2 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Jaywalking isn't the problem

Do No Evil – Issuing 11,000 citations to recipients in skid row isn't just bad public policy; it's expensive public policy.

View Story Discuss (0) (latimes.com) 1 day ago by Digidave

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

Ready, Set, Design: Work as a Contest

Art & Design – It seems that nearly every day a new architectural competition is announced featuring an international lineup of established or emerging architects vying to design an eye-catching museum, airport, theater, courthouse or concert hall. Who doesn't like an architecture competition? Well, lots of architects.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 1 day ago by Digidave

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

A Prisoner With a Paintbrush, a Legacy at Risk

Art & Design – The remarkably powerful murals of Alfredo Santos, which are hidden in an overcrowded and decaying prison at San Quentin, Calif., face an uncertain future.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 1 day ago by Digidave

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Where did that food come from? Your guess is as good as the label

Food – The apple-blackberry sauce sold widely in Seattle supermarkets, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture organic seal on the label, says it comes from Chino, Calif. It also says "Product of Canada." So how do you know where it's from? You don't.

View Story Discuss (0) (seattlepi.nwsource.com) 3 days ago by Deidre

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Restaurant owner adds cab company to his plate

Autos – The owner of the Elevation Burger restaurant is starting a cab company with a fleet of 50 all-hybrid cars in Arlington. Hans Hess has teamed up with nephew Cord Thomas to start EnviroCab LLC, which is being hailed as the first carbon-negative cab company in the country.

View Story Discuss (0) (bizjournals.com) 2 days ago by Deidre

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

For 2015, it's the inside that counts

Real Estate – More than 300 architects, designers, manufacturers and marketing experts interviewed by phone or surveyed by the National Association of Home Builders last year predicted that the average U.S. home in 2015 will not be any bigger. What it will be, they said, is much more luxurious.

View Story Discuss (0) (montereyherald.com) 1 day ago by Deidre

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Shopping for New-Money Millionaires

Shopping – Not so long ago if you walked into a really exclusive luxury purveyor the only people who could conceivably afford the real bling were princes, sheiks or crooks. Now a growing number of self-made millionaires are changing the face of the luxury market, demanding the kind of lavish lifestyle that used to be reserved for royals.

View Story Discuss (0) (abcnews.go.com) 1 day ago by Deidre

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 28 votes / No sinks

Ocean's 'missing link' discovered

Science – Australian scientists have discovered a giant underwater current that is one of the last missing links of a system that connects the world's oceans and helps govern global climate.

View Story Discuss (1) (cnn.com) 4 days ago by digitalnews

Voted for on August 19, 2007 09:44pm

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