By Paul Rincon

Science reporter, BBC News

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Taken from my new favorite website: PhysOrg.com :


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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Hungry Haitians stormed the presidential palace Tuesday to demand the resignation of President Rene Preval over soaring food prices and U.N. peacekeepers battled rioters with rubber bullets and tear gas.


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Taken from Wikipedia:

In 2001, author Edwin Black published IBM and the Holocaust (ISBN 0-609-80899-0), a book that documented how IBM's New York headquarters and CEO Thomas J. Watson acted through its overseas subsidiaries to provide the Third Reich with punch card machines that could help the Nazis to track down the European Jewry (especially in ( Read more... )

 I smell "engineering fearless human super-soldiers in the near future" don't you??:

Japan scientists develop fearless mice


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South Koreans clone cats that glow in the dark


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Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said:
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized ( Read more... )

Bush vetoes kids health insurance bill

So basically if you're not DIRT POOR, you're screwed. Hate to break it to Dubya, but most of the families without health insurance are people who have a roof over their heads, but are in the poorhouse PAYING for that roof and other basic necessities. And what's so wrong about including adults as well?? Parents ( Read more... )

Hey all,

I pretty much only use this LJ to comment in communities I'm active in. I'm not much of a blogger anyway.

A people dependent on coral. “The United Nations is being asked to step in to protect a barrier reef which lies just off Belize in Central America. Island dwellers fear its erosion could endanger their homes and livelihoods if action is not taken soon.”

Overfishing threatening Gulf’s ecosystems. “One of the problems the population boom has created ( Read more... )