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The media and the Obama campaign (but I repeat myself) are comparing the "experience" of'the Democrats' presidential nominee to that of the GOP's vice-presidential pick -- meaning, one must assume, that the debate over his experience vs. John McCain's is over, in McCain's resounding favor. Let's look back a couple of months at a post I put up on July 14 (with minor revisions) that gives a, uh, concrete example of one of Barack Obama's management "experiences" -- one that the national media has (of course) totally ignored. ______________________________________________________ Barack Obama's $100,000 Gazebo Here's an interesting story I found in...

Family found for gigantic flowers By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The Rafflesiaceae possess some unusual features The 200-year-old mystery of where one of the world's largest flowers sit in the botanical family tree has finally been solved by scientists. To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms. The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science. Such traits include the fact that they are rootless, leafless and stemless. Their giant blooms, which weigh up to...