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Google has a really cool feature as part of their new tool bar, the feature lets you help fight cancer, mad cow, Parkinson's and other ailments. It uses your computer to help scientist unfold proteins. Google ComputeHowever, there is a problem. If you use that feature, you contribute to Team Google Compute while you could be contributing to Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan. It is all part of the same distributive computing project through Stanford University.To help our team, you need to download the secure, free and very small distributive software from Stanford Folding@Home, choose a...

Would President Reagan have wanted Alexander Hamilton taken off the $10 bill?"WE THINK it's premature at this point to discuss any changes to currency," Anne Womack Kolton told the New York Times on Tuesday. Like most Americans, she was reacting to the death of Ronald Reagan, albeit in her own particular way. Kolton is a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department. The currency changes to which she refers are several outstanding proposals that would memorialize Reagan's visage by grafting it to cash money. For Reagan to inhabit the dime, which currently houses Franklin Delano Roosevelt's profile, is one possibility; the $20...

Yesterday morning I traveled to Washington with my husband, two sisters, a niece, and a friend of our niece’s (two high school girls).  We parked in Silver Spring, MD, and took the Metro into DC. At around four o’clock, we stationed ourselves at 1600 Constitution Avenue, where the transfer of the President’s casket to the horse-drawn caisson was scheduled to take place at six o’clock.  It was a hot, oppressive day (about ninety-two humid degrees), but there was an occasional warm breeze. Various color guards stood at attention.  The caisson, and the riderless horse, with Reagan’s own boots positioned facing...

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