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Behind the Kerry campaign

Scott Ard Former Editor in Chief, CNET
CNET former Editor in Chief Scott Ard has been a journalist for more than 20 years and an early tech adopter for even longer. Those two passions led him to editing one of the first tech sections for a daily newspaper in the mid 1990s, and to joining CNET part-time in 1996 and full-time a few years later.
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John Kerry released a letter signed by 48 Nobel Prize-winning scientists Monday, urging people to support the Massachusetts senator in his bid for the U.S. presidency.

Even more interesting was word that Kerry invited Hunter Thompson to ride in his motorcade during a fundraising swing through Colorado. I'm trying to imagine that conversation but haven't ingested enough mescaline.

Thompson, reportedly a Kerry supporter who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, is writing a 2004 sequel to his 1972 classic "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail."