meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Dying For Laughs

At least 140 people were reported killed around [Iraq] Monday … At least 60 bodies were discovered in the capital. Most were middle-aged men, stripped of identification papers, who had been handcuffed, tortured and...

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Eminent Domain

39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians. Israel has long asserted that it fully respects Palestinian private property in the West Bank...

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Iku Iku Byo

Growing numbers of Japanese women are afflicted with an illness that gives them orgasms virtually 24 hours a day. And with suggestions that it could be deadly, the women hardly know whether they’re coming...

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Numbers Game

Between 2 percent and 5 percent of Iraq’s 27 million people have been killed, wounded or uprooted since the Americans invaded in 2003, calculates Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for International and Strategic...

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WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for “full private stewardry of labor” for the parts of Africa...

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Hard To Make Ends Meet

In 1995, estates worth $20 million or more gave away 25.3 percent of their wealth; by 2004, that figure had dropped to 20.8 percent. At the same time, the percentage of $20 million-plus estates...

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Two Party System

[US] President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, and...

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Mass Concentration

David Geffen’s Universal just managed to extract a promise from Microsoft to pay a fee for every one of its new media players sold. Why would MS agree to this so readily- apart from...

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Neandertals Hot To Trot

The gene microcephalin (MCPH1) regulates brain size during development and has experienced positive selection in the lineage leading to Homo sapiens. Within modern humans, a group of closely related haplotypes at this locus, known...