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Covert look at rich vs poor on latest reality show...
Fascinating new mobile banking model for the unbanked...
Obama pragmatically cooling his pro Arab friendships...?
Robert Rauschenberg: "It's not a negation. It's a celebration."
British consumers throw out a third of all food bought, worth some 10 billion pounds
The Married Priest Option
U.S. officials urged to avoid linking Islam, jihad with terrorism
Rather than elevating their power and prestige by calling them "Islamic," it makes a great deal of sense to characterize our enemies as simply what they are -- vicious thugs who use religion as a political tool.
Americans tell it like it is to the Iraqis...
"After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn't take it anymore"
No shaving vertical lines into your eyebrows...
'Why aren't you doing something!?'
Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming
Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home
...power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter...
"The 2008 US election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy, in which noble heroes and heroines are forced to follow a course to catastrophe, divinely preordained as punishment for sins and blunders committed by their forefathers in the dim and distant past. In acting out their ineluctable doom, the eloquent protagonists do not just destroy themselves but also their cities, their nations and even their entire civilisations."
Don't call 911: "sounds of snoring can be heard on the line..."
a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers
Check out the subtle biases in this N Y Times piece about the Khalil Gibran school in NY
Hollywood's negative typecasting of Arabs is worse than ever...
Guantánamo drives prisoners "insane..."
How 'Dallas' Won the Cold War
Beware of lip balm...
More self-demeaning Bush quips...
blind man who was given the gift of sight by gene therapy
A woman's diet around the time of conception may influence the gender of her baby
Back to the Baghdad zoo...
Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer
Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries
Not a cool prank?
Bush on Pop TV: “Come to think of it, I’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days.” Burglaries up in DC... Surgeons have carried out the first operations in Britain using a pioneering “bionic eye” that could in future help to restore blind people’s sight Marriage is good for you...
Burglaries up in DC...
Surgeons have carried out the first operations in Britain using a pioneering “bionic eye” that could in future help to restore blind people’s sight
Marriage is good for you...
Post-Sept. 11 'comedies' coming soon...
One billion dollars is no longer enough to gain entry to Russia's rich list
Should cell phones be banned from public transport...?
Stressed parents 'make kids ill'
World's most stable (and unstable) countries
Logos offer a guide to secret military research
... man in wheelchair robbed bank ...
Web site makes suing easy
Are vitamins and supplements doing more harm than good?
First Draft of History Looks a Bit Rough on Bush
The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon...
Miami-based company that began advertising a Mac clone called "OpenMac" for $399 said it was stunned by the response and couldn't take orders because its Web site had gone under.
US athletes want to make statement with Beijing gold
Factories to Shut to Clean Beijing's Air
The Fight for Yahoo: Five Scenarios
Monster-trucking on the moon in a newfangled $2 million buggy
New -- angryjournalist.com
Ultimate Fights Expand to Include Kids
Global poverty to halve by 2015 ... but Africa lags
Let's shut this town down...
Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan
All living languages are promiscuous
"Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think."
International Olympic Committee may scrap the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay as a result of the protests over China’s military crackdown in Tibet
"The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds."
... study claims to have found a genetic link to ruthlessness...
How Paranoid Is It to Buy a Wallet With a Metal Shield for Your SmarTrip Card
Yahoo adds voice commands to Web search on phones
STRANGE and SCARY WORLD
Washington Post Global: Israel celebrated its 60th birthday last week. Will it survive to celebrate its 100th?
Gaza cant treat its sewage properly thanks to Israeli seige...
McCain's confused foreign policy ideals...
An Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza Strip home Monday during a skirmish with gunmen, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast
Israelis claim secret agreement with U.S....
... How Israeli intelligence gets information from the US... CNN founder Ted Turner applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.”
How Israeli intelligence gets information from the US...
CNN founder Ted Turner applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.”
... "I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place."
"I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place."
... How many nukes does the US really have?
How many nukes does the US really have?
... McCain's 100 years of war...
McCain's 100 years of war...
... US has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets near Pakistan...
US has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets near Pakistan...
... 4000 US dead in Iraq... Five years after the US invasion, some see flickers of hope
4000 US dead in Iraq...
Five years after the US invasion, some see flickers of hope
... Debating Israel at the Paris book fair....
Debating Israel at the Paris book fair....
... Elders for peace...
Elders for peace...
... AIPAC on trial: "the defendants’ boastful tone, which may have been used to suggest that their knowledge reflected their great influence within the administration, made the conversations potentially embarrassing..." ... It's official -- Israel warns Palestinians of an impending holocaust... ... In 2006, the Justice Department sought the text of every term entered into Google's search engine during a one-week period. Google largely succeeded in resisting the request, which was eventually scaled back to 5,000 random searches, the EFF said. ... Monopoly lands itself in a political mess...
AIPAC on trial: "the defendants’ boastful tone, which may have been used to suggest that their knowledge reflected their great influence within the administration, made the conversations potentially embarrassing..."
It's official -- Israel warns Palestinians of an impending holocaust...
In 2006, the Justice Department sought the text of every term entered into Google's search engine during a one-week period. Google largely succeeded in resisting the request, which was eventually scaled back to 5,000 random searches, the EFF said.
Monopoly lands itself in a political mess...
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