Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

"When the meetings and were over at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City last April, police had used 4,709 canisters of tear gas over a 72 hour period, effectively filling downtown with gas. A month later, homes and other buildings in downtown were still contaminated by the gas, and calls for a public inquiry had been dismissed."

"Seems folks over at the the U.S. National Fusion Facility in San Diego have figured out a way to fiddle with magnets to contain plasma and make their scale-model fusion generator produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in."

Trans fats, also called trans fatty acids, are the product of a process called partial hydrogenation that converts liquid vegetable oils into solid fats.