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Food Exports Can Drain Arid Regions - Science News
Seeded on Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:21 AM EST (Science News)
About a fifth of the water that humankind now uses gets exported from its original country to another — though rarely as anything that can splash into a glass.
New family of legless amphibians found in India
Seeded on Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:55 AM EST ()
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
Creating American Terrorists - OpEd
Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:18 PM EST ()
Klusmire’s real crime was to oppose a powerful interest group, the Israel Lobby. To do so these days is to invite a charge of terrorism support with the option of being arrested by the Pentagon and locked up somewhere at the pleasure of the president of the United States.
Aide Mendez Recorded Doing Drugs Before Killing Her Children In Fresno, Calif. (VIDEO)
Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:53 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
The four family members involved in an apparent murder-suicide at a Central California apartment all died from a single gunshot wound to the head, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday. The woman who shot her two children, their father and a cousin before com …
Radical cleric wins case against deportation
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:21 PM EST (The Hindu)
Controversial radical cleric Abu Qatada on Tuesday won his long legal battle against being extradited to his native Jordan to face prosecution on charges of terrorism after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that if he was sent back he was likely to be tried on the basis of …
West's romancing of the Taliban
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:16 PM EST (The Hindu)
People of Afghanistan will pay the price for the West's looming deal with the Islamic Emirate it destroyed after 9/11.
Helping the Hazara of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:30 PM EST (National Geographic)
The current predicament of ethnic and religious minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a cause of grave concern, and it is essential for the international community to be aware of multiple complexities and rivalries in the region
Man convicted of 3 NY killings gets 75 to life
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:45 PM EST (Associated Press)
A serial killer who avoided detection for 20 years - until he voluntarily gave a DNA sample - was sentenced Tuesday to 75 years to life in prison. Francisco Acevedo, 43, had been convicted of murdering three women in Yonkers between 1989 and 1996. "These were monstrous cr …
Militant Pakistan judges may trigger regime change | World news | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:13 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
In Pakistan, military coups are true to type. Or at least they were.
Independent panel on Fukushima crisis says it will go much deeper than gov't one
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:06 PM EST (Japan Today)
A newly formed investigative panel on Japan’s nuclear disaster will use its subpoena powers wisely and cut deeper into the accident than the government’s probe, the leader of the independent commission said Monday.
Foreign powers' right to intervention should be fine-tuned
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:00 PM EST (The Telegraph: Calcutta)
The ideological underpinning of much of the foreign intervention that we see these days in countries in distress — for instance, those in north Africa and west Asia convulsed by an ‘Arab Spring’ — is provided by a little-known concept called the Responsibi …
And now to the House : Lokpal Bill in Indian Parliament
Seeded on Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:30 PM EST (Business Standard)
Nowhere in this process, which is democratic, orderly, transparent and effective, can there be a provision for the unreasonable demands of unelected people.
China's golden decade
Seeded on Wed Sep 7, 2011 12:03 AM EDT (The Indian Express: Latest News, Breaking News Live, Current Headlines, India News Online)
Beijing adroitly adapted to the post-9/11 international environment by following a pragmatic foreign policy that sought to maintain a stable relationship with the United States while pursuing its long-term strategic goals slowly but surely.
How Many Leaves on the Tree of Life? - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Tue Sep 6, 2011 11:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The most rigorous attempt at a statistical analysis of the problem, a recent study led by scientists at Dalhousie University, concludes that there are about 8.7 million species on Earth.
One Sperm Donor, 150 Sons and Daughters - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Tue Sep 6, 2011 10:57 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Now, there is growing concern among parents, donors and medical experts about potential negative consequences of having so many children fathered by the same donors, including the possibility that genes for rare diseases could be spread more widely through the population.
Man accidentally divorces wife during Skype chat
Seeded on Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:54 AM EDT (WEBLEA)
A Muslim man is paying a high price for a joke he made while chatting to his wife on a messenger conversation on Skype.
Gaddafi's girl executioner: Nisreen, 19, admits shooting 11 rebel prisoners | Mail Online
Seeded on Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:50 PM EDT (the Mail online)
‘All the girls in the Popular Guards were raped. The men sexually assault the female recruits and then train them in weapons. We have had four women in here as patients, all trained as snipers like Nisreen.
Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely
Seeded on Thu Aug 4, 2011 10:06 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Late last month, 200 teenagers from Boston-area schools gathered to discuss the minutia of Facebook breakup etiquette. Should you delete pictures of your ex after splitting up? Is it O.K.
10-Year-Old Model's Grown-Up Look: High Fashion or High Risk? - ABC News
Seeded on Thu Aug 4, 2011 9:29 PM EDT (ABC News)
"People have always admired young ballerinas in scanty costumes, but those performances weren't explicitly sexual," Vivian Friedman, child psychologist and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,told ABC News at the time.
Sex strike works in Colombia, authorities bow to demands
Seeded on Thu Aug 4, 2011 9:02 PM EDT (Global post)
But context is everything. The women in Colombia aren't simply playing the sex card; they're connecting their life-or-death struggle to their future children
Baby switch shock: newborns go to wrong families | St John of God
Seeded on Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:07 PM EDT (the age)
Two newborn babies were mistakenly swapped and given to the wrong parents at a Victorian hospital. The St John of God Hospital, in Geelong, has confirmed the babies were given to the wrong parents on Friday.
Girls urged to strip to support Vladimir Putin as president
Seeded on Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:16 PM EDT (Telegraph)
An online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday.
Yemeni Protesters Name a Shadow Government
Seeded on Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Even as antigovernment protesters in Yemen struggled to revitalize their movement, sketching somewhat shaky plans over the weekend for a transitional government, they produced a show of their core strength, taking to the streets in huge numbers on Sunday to protest the …
Man drank wife's blood for 3 years in Madhya Pradesh- India
Seeded on Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:28 PM EDT (Times of India)
This real life incident has the making of a scene from some vampire movie. A 22-year-old woman in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh has told the police that her husband drank her blood for the past three years.
Saudi beheads man for sexual assault
Seeded on Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:22 PM EDT (The Indian Express: Latest News, Breaking News Live, Current Headlines, India News Online)
A Saudi man was beheaded on Friday in Tabuk in the ultra-conservative kingdom's north after being convicted of sexually assaulting another man's wife, a statement from the interior ministry said. Adel bin Mohammed Assiri forcibly entered the man's apartment and assa …
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Food Exports Can Drain Arid Regions - Science NewsAbout a fifth of the water that humankind now uses gets exported from its original country to another — though rarely as anything that can splash into a glass.
- New family of legless amphibians found in India
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
Wild girls of the food world make no apologies
The foul-mouthed, self-proclaimed wild girls of the food world are making no apologies for their success.
How do you really feel about your age? (Poll)
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Food Exports Can Drain Arid Regions - Science News
How do you really feel about your age? (Poll)
Food Exports Can Drain Arid Regions - Science News
New family of legless amphibians found in India
Wild girls of the food world make no apologies
How do you really feel about your age? (Poll)
Creating American Terrorists - OpEd
Aide Mendez Recorded Doing Drugs Before Killing Her Children In Fresno, Calif. (VIDEO)
Man convicted of 3 NY killings gets 75 to life
Radical cleric wins case against deportation