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Bye Bye Saddam, We Hardly Knew Ye

In the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years … his first contacts with U.S. officials...

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Power Pill Preacher Man

“We [Christians] have lost every major city in North America,” Pastor Ted [Haggard] writes in his 1995 book Primary Purpose, but he believes they can be reclaimed through prayer—“violent, confrontive prayer.” He encourages believers...

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Strawberry

A typical artificial strawberry flavor, like the kind found in a Burger King strawberry milk shake, contains the following ingredients: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric...

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Piggy Bank

The human vagina, when not engaged in coitus, is often much smaller than the local penis. The vaginal tissue, happily enough, has the facility to expand to welcome the visitor and in such circumstances...

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Perplexical “meehawl”

So I noticed that there is now a relatively highly pageranked page that for some weird reason has “meehawl” at the top of it that links to something odd.

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Two Irelands

Ireland has one of the highest rates of poverty among developed countries, ranking third highest in the 2005 United Nations Human Development Index* … Some 18% of children leave school early, 15% leave school...

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Flight of the Dubs

U2 [is] to relocate its music-publishing business from Ireland to the Netherlands in order to shelter its songwriting royalties from taxation … Ireland’s finance minister announced a ceiling of $319,000 on tax-free incomes, and...

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Does This Make My Nose Look Big?

Considered an indicator of self-awareness, mirror self-recognition (MSR) has long seemed limited to humans and apes. In both phylogeny and human ontogeny, MSR is thought to correlate with higher forms of empathy and altruistic...

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War On Biodiversity

Julie MacDonald … has been deputy assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife and parks since 2004 [making] decisions on protecting endangered species [and] has repeatedly refused to go along with staff...

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A City Of Ghosts

The commotion in the streets — goods spilling across sidewalks, traffic snarled under a searing sun — once prompted the uninitiated to conclude that Baghdad was reviving. Of course, they were seeing the city...