links for 2006-10-26
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A “Tower of Babel” device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another. The researchers said the effect was
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On one of the pictures, a soldier is seen holding the skull next to his exposed penis, on another – soldiers pose with the skull on their jeep.
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The great evil that Limbaugh does is that he gives his listeners words that both help them express their hatreds and resentments and hide from themselves the fact that they hate and resent.
“Rush is a smart guy, he must be, he’s famous and he’s rich and -
WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning.
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Up to 1.5 million tons of oil, 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, has been spilt in the ecologically precious Niger Delta over the past 50 years, it was revealed yesterday.
A panel of independent experts who travelled -
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.
According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to -
Climate change could tilt the world’s economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.
Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, will warn that governments need to tackle the problem head-on -
Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish info
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The same thing is going on with the Fox ads. The Wingnutteria is not upset that he’s pulling on people’s emotions; they’re mad because the point he’s making is relevant. Coulter’s quote tells you all you need to know—”we’re not allowed to
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This webpage will produce a boarding pass good enough to get anyone past TSA, and thus, into the “secure” gate areas of the airport terminal.
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