Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Post a comment
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces arrested five members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, including a former parliamentary candidate, in sweeps ahead of local elections due in April, the Brotherhood said.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008 | 62 comments

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Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence
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Monday, February 25th, 2008 | 4 comments

Pro-Palestinian protestors marching through Durban during a UN conference on racism in 2001. (AP)
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Posted by John Higgins under: Anti-Semitism
Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Post a comment
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Israel and Palestinians will not reach a peace deal by the end of this year, and a recent Mideast peace conference in Annapolis was only “an exercise in public relations,” Syria’s ambassador to the United States said Monday.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | 16 comments
The United States has been in church for nearly a year, now, preached to, proselytized, evangelized, testified to by one presidential candidate after another. It seems to be working, on me at least. I’ve come to a decision. I’m going to vote for a christian.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | Post a comment
A drug to treat breast cancer received approval yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration, which went against the recommendation of its advisory panel.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 | 4 comments
An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.”
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Posted by John Higgins under: Innocent Blood
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 | One comment
RFID is serving as the network for the RFID Ecosystem Project, a social networking experiment at the University of Washington in Seattle that is exploring the intersection of the value of tracking systems and the loss of privacy that they can cause.
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Posted by John Higgins under: The Mark
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | 2 comments
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Picking up an E. coli bug from your pet might lead to a urinary tract infection, according to Minneapolis-based researchers.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | 2 comments
One of America’s most influential businessmen, legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens, says the nation’s wealth is being plundered by oil exporters and the U.S. faces a potential financial disaster if our energy policy is not reformed.
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Posted by John Higgins under: Perplexity