links for 2006-11-06
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I’m more than a little worried. This is Bush’s final card. The elections came and went and a group of extremists and thieves were put into power (no, no- I meant in Baghdad, not Washington). The constitution which seems to have drowned in th
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WASHINGTON Nov 4, 2006 (AP)— A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency’s closely guarded interrogation technique
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These residents live in what the University of Chicago sociologists St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton called the “shady world.” Coined in the mid-20th century, their phrase describes the vibrant social life that arose around making money off the books. Th
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“Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.
“No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies.
“We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says. -
For big drug companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts had predicted.
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Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
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The University of Surrey has been awarded a grant of £420,000 to utilize nanotechnology to develop cancer treatments. The grant is part of an international project: “Multifunctional Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications (CARBIO)” supported by
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States says more than a million Americans suffer from Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The CDC along with the National Institute for Health (NIH) has announced a four million dollar resear -
Plans for a silent, energy-efficient plane which could take to the sky in less than 25 years’ time were unveiled this afternoon by scientists.
On a typical flight the plane, which has been designed by scientists from Cambridge University and the Massachu -
A fossil-hunting trip to celebrate a son’s homecoming resulted in the recent discovery of an ancient sea monster in central Montana. Believed to be approximately 70 million years old, its skull and lower jaw represent the first complete skull of a long-ne
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