links for 2006-11-02
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Army specialist Alyssa Peterson was an Arabic speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at the Tal-afar airbase in far northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border. According to the Army’s investigation into her death, obtained by a KNAU reporter through t
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The Internet is often called the information superhighway, but the real superhighway is the optical fiber that connects computers around the world at the speed of light, according to John Badding, Penn State associate professor of chemistry. “Light can
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The results of an international study suggests that a compound found in red wine gave mice longer and healthier lives and also countered some of the effects of a high-calorie diet.
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According to British researchers, some of the symptoms of schizophrenia may be eased with music therapy.
The scientists suggest that the depression, anxiety and emotional withdrawal symptoms of schizophrenia, can be alleviated by listening to music. -
According to a new study which collected data from people in 59 countries, westerners are more promiscuous than those in the developing world.
The new study, the first global analysis of sexual behaviour, says people in western countries have more sexual -
(AP) — Manhattan security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.
Michael Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Kroll owner Marsh & McLenna
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Bechtel Corp. went to Iraq three years ago to help rebuild a nation torn by war. Since then, 52 of its people have been killed and much of its work sabotaged as Iraq dissolved into insurgency and sectarian violence.
Now Bechtel is leaving.
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KFDM continues to get complaints from Jefferson County voters who say the electronic voting machines are not registering their votes correctly.
Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen -
Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen
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I raised my hand to my face to remove my sunglasses and stopped. She wasn’t smiling because she was nice. She was smiling because she was suffering from False Authority Syndrome! The poor child. In the most disarming, rational, peaceful, and kind voice
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Hey all! Here are the entries into the speed remix competition. Everyone who entered did a great job, so check them out! E-mail us at freecultureusc at gmail dot com and tell us which your favorite is – watch them all! In alphabetical order, here we go…
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Promiscuous females are more likely to give birth to healthier offspring, researchers at The Australian National University have found.
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LONDON (Reuters) – NATO has insufficient troops in Afghanistan to secure a victory over Taliban fighters in the coming months, the alliance’s top commander said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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Strange though his idea might have seemed to others in his field, Wang, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, discovered that he could integrate dopamine, a type of neur
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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within “excitons,” the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors to function as novel electronic devices.
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A study conducted by Universite Laval researchers concludes that using an activated-carbon filtering pitcher is the most effective way to reduce disinfection by-products in tap water. The results of the study, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineerin
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It’s called the “doughnut hole,” and it’s the most controversial piece of Part D, Medicare’s prescription drug program.
The hole requires seniors trapped inside it to pay for drug insurance and, at the same time, pay the entire cost of the drugs they
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In the court papers, filed last month, Padilla claims that:
_Interrogators threatened him with “imminent execution” or with painful cuts.
_He was often forced to wear a hood and stand in “stress positions” for long periods. Similar tactics were used by -
atlanta — A civil rights group sued the federal government Wednesday on behalf of five Latino U.S. citizens who say they were detained and harassed by agents carrying out raids targeting illegal immigrants in south Georgia.
The Southern Poverty Law C
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This is what the ideal world of the Bush follower looks like: If the Government is waging a war and things are going horribly, the Government has the right to lie to its citizens and claim that things are going remarkably well. If a newspaper is furnished
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Lieberman’s Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the $387,000 in petty cash the senator spent in the waning days before the August Democratic primary.
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According to the Mexican daily MILENIO, the policemen implicated in Brad Will’s assassination are nowhere to be found. They’ve disappeared since October 28th.
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In good times and bad, the Bears are a popular television attraction.
In great times such as these, when they’re playing like one of the NFL’s elite teams, it’s no wonder two networks are fighting over them.
Coming soon: Fox vs. NBC. The prize: The righ
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