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Anybody see that movie 'The Dead Zone'? In a crucial scene the evil politician sees an assassin trying to shoot him. He grabs a baby and puts it between the gun and himself. The assassin holds back because he will not shoot through a baby. The act is caught on camera and the evil politician loses his race because his cowardace is played over and over again. What Walz just did is his Dead Zone moment. Notice the hate on Walz's face as he tugs his son into line. Even though he knows multiple cameras are watching he can't control...

VIDEO Perhaps horror novelist Stephen King should consider switching to writing comedy due to his completely laughable streeeeeeeetch of the truth in order to make absurd comparisons between the character of Greg Stillson from "The Dead Zone" to Donald Trump.

U.K. researcher says area where marine life has difficulty surviving is worse than expectedUnderwater robots have found that a vast, oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Oman is now the largest such area in the world. Scientists have known about the zone for around 50 years, but until recently they have not been able to collect very much data due to piracy and conflicts in the region. They sent two human-size robots known as seagliders into the area for eight months, and the vessels ventured into previously inaccessible areas. The seagliders found a zone with little to no oxygen...

COLLEGE STATION - Record rainfall totals in many parts of Texas the past few weeks means a record amount of freshwater pouring into the Gulf of Mexico – as high as 10 times the normal rate – and that could lead to huge problems for marine life and commercial fishermen very soon, warns a Texas A&M University oceanographer. Steve DiMarco, professor of oceanography, says the huge rainfall amounts in the last month mean that such rivers as the Brazos, Trinity, Colorado and others currently are carrying record amounts of water flowing southward to the Gulf, similar to a situation that...

Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico and problems in other bodies of water. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey in New Orleans gave the Environmental Protection Agency six months to decide whether to set Clean Water Act standards for nitrogen and phosphorous in all U.S. waterways or explain why they’re not needed. The EPA describes the nutrients on its website as “one of America’s...

Just saw that Netflix has added seasons 1 thru 6 of 'Dead Zone' to their Watch Instantly section. I've liked the show when I've caught it, but after a while I lost track of the plotline and lost interest. Now I can see the show in order. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Dead_Zone/70140443?trkid=1457044

Enlarge ImageGrowing problem. Increasing reliance on biofuels is expected to further deplete dissolved oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The push to ramp up biofuel production may reduce oil imports, but it's likely to come at a high environmental cost: It will boost the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, a huge swath so depleted of oxygen that almost nothing can live there, according to a new analysis. The gulf's dead zone is already a major environmental problem. First spotted in 1971, it now spans 14,600 square kilometers, or...

0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his “Town Hall” on health care reform. 13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers “because he couldn’t find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist… [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.” 14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National...

Nearly a year after a Brooklyn man froze to death on the Adirondack Northway because he couldn't get cellphone service, the Spitzer administration has yet to fix the life-threatening problem. Temperatures were well below zero when 63-year-old Alfred Langner's car went off the road in a treacherous 47-mile cell-phone “dead zone" last January. Unable to call for help, he succumbed to hypothermia 13 hours later, while his injured wife waited some 20 hours more before a passing state trooper noticed the vehicle. But with the mercury dropping again, the dead zone remains - and the Spitzer team's foot-dragging is largely...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An ocean dead zone off Oregon that killed fish, crabs and sea worms in an area bigger than Rhode Island last summer lasted nearly three times longer than any of its predecessors before dissipating with autumn's change in the weather, scientists said Monday. This year's dead zone off Oregon ran for 17 weeks, compared to the previous high of six weeks in 2004, and saw oxygen readings near zero that left the ocean bottom littered with dead crabs, sea stars and sea anemones. This is the fifth straight year the dead zone returned. It covered 70...

Last night I watched a tv show I haven't watched in a while: The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is a tv show on the USA network. The basic premise of the show is that a man(Johnny Smith) acquires psychic powers, and uses them to solve crime and help people. Normally the show is very entertaining, and I enjoy it. But, last night was different. I was treated to a show replete with ugly stereotypes, Pro-Life bashing, and not to mention weak writing. Warning this will spoil the plot The episode centers around a murder, where the body of a...