Tuesday. Leander girl runs from stranger Updated: 8/22/2006 9:30:50 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff Williamson County authorities are looking for what they call a “person of interest” in connection with an incident near Pleasant Hill Elementary School in Leander. A third-grade student there told authorities she was approached by a man in a green van in the Vista Oaks subdivision Monday. The girl immediately ran away to a nearby home. On Tuesday, the Leander Independent School District sent a notice to parents, advising them of what happened. The girl's mother, Becki Malan, said her daughter did the right thing.…

Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. Mr. Nassirian said people at the Education Department had described the omission as ?a clerical mistake.? But it is ?odd,? he said, because applying the subject codes ?is a fairly mechanical task. It is not supposed to be the subject of any kind of deliberation.? ?I am not at all certain that the omission of this particular major is unintentional,? he added. ?But I have to take them at their word.? Scientists who knew about the omission…

Don't bother with Dulche de Leche Oreos. They are horribly bad.

That's the worst case of acid reflux I've had in ages – a couple of years, at least. I'm sitting up for a while as a defensive maneuver. Guess that's what I get for gaining most of the weight back (not all!!) and eating like crap this weekend. Nothing like leaping straight out of bed coughing and choking. Dammit.

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

I'm so getting one of these when they come out.

Parents: beware of shopping carts and escalators CHICAGO (Reuters) – Shopping carts, escalators and lawn mowers injure 35,000 American children every year and should be redesigned, researchers said on Monday. Last year in the United States, 24,000 children were hurt badly enough to go to the hospital after falling out of shopping carts or topping over while they rode, a statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics said. Three-quarters of the injuries were to the head or neck. Some children got injured when they were trapped in carts, or fell off while riding on the outside or while standing up…