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Several journalists pointed out targets to the soldiers they were traveling with. No sooner had the BBC’s Gavin Hewitt pointed out an enemy truck than it was shot to pieces and several Iraqis were...

Duncan, et al. (1993) use a variety of national longitudinal data sets to study transitions out of poverty in seven countries for families with children 17 or younger during the early to mid-1980s. Examining...

Lots of interesting stuff here.

Now that I hear increasing noise and wind about Bush’s ludicrous “Roadmap For Peace” in Israel/Palestine, I notice that one of its core tenets – the removal of the ultra-Zionist colonies from the Occupied...

I noted this interesting review of an op-ed piece by Ahmed Chalabi, from last February, concerning the US’s plans for the occupation and restructuring of Iraq: “[T]he plan … calls for an American military...

Woman with duplicate wombs successfully birthed fraternal twins from both wombs, simultaneously. Having each developed from a separate egg, the twins are genetically only as similar as any other brother and sister. About one...

Some people are just dying to get washboard abs… Roberts was 55-years-old when he died of a heart attack Friday morning. He collapsed while working out at 24-Hour Fitness … employees covered his body...

Finger Licking Good! Unlike the Chicken-Head-In-McDonald’s-Fries story, these guys found a lizard head in their Applebee’s chicken salad. “Based on our initial investigation, we believe that somehow a small ‘fence lizard’ managed to deeply...

Saddam Hussein, despite all his ills, gave these women many of their rights three decades ago, making Iraq the relatively progressive oasis of women’s rights in a highly conservative and repressive region … “We...

I noticed that UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Programme, has issued a report critical of the US refusal to allow pollution inspectors into Iraq to measure the amount of radiological pollution from the Pentagon’s...