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50,000 And Rising

At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion … a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration … Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed...

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More Petaluma Animal Lovers

Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of stench … About 1,000 pet rats — ranging from...

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Hockey Stick Reconfirmed

After a comprehensive review of climate change data, the [US]’s preeminent scientific body found that average temperatures on Earth had risen by about 1 degree over the last century, a development that “is unprecedented...

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Twenty Percent Solution

An off-target Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip killed a pregnant woman and her brother Wednesday and wounded at least 15 other civilians, including three children … A 1-year-old child was also critically...

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Brain Eating Super Bug

Toxoplasma gondii looks as if it ought to be the most famous parasite on earth. This single-celled pathogen infects over half the world’s population, including an estimated 50 million Americans. Each of Toxoplasma’s victims...

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Mogadishu Soccer Blues

A week ago, when Mexico and Iran were still playing the first half of their World Cup soccer match, gunmen allied with the Islamic courts burst into a tiny theater in the Hiliwaa neighborhood...

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Salut Catalunya!

So while we were in Barcelona I noticed lots of posters about a nationhood referendum for Catalunya. Apparently it passed, with Catalonia declaring itself a full nation and not just an “autonomous region” of...

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No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that this website was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own;...