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Did President Obama “Act Stupidly” or Speak Skillfully by Weighing In On Professor Gates’ Arrest?
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hfields
I don’t feel it’s my place to get into the rights and wrongs of Skip Gates’ arrest. I honestly think it’s a case of he-said, he-said, and while I tend to think there are very few times arresting a guy for being angry at, or talking back to, someone accusing him of trespassing in his…
Mission To Mars: Mankind’s Next Giant Leap, Or The Last Thing We Need To Be Worrying About?
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hfields
As human beings, it’s in our natures to dream big. And as a species, we’ve done some astonishing things. Today, for instance, marks the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing and moon walk–a mission we achieved, in part, to impress and intimidate our cold-war rivals. Now the astronauts from the Apollo missions (especially…
Rwandan Genocide Leaders Get a Whopping Sentence in Court…
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Padmini Mangunta
Not. On Tuesday, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced a former governor of Rwanda to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide. This is the third such ruling this year; previous convictions by the U.N. court include 25 years in prison for a military chaplain convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity,…
World’s Oldest “New” Mother Dead at 69
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Padmini Mangunta
Back in 2006, Maria del Carmen Bousada gave birth to a set of twins – at the ripe old age of 66. Three years later, she’s passed away, leaving behind two young children. After Bousada became pregnant using in vitro fertilization, questions were raised about the ethics of having a child that far along in…
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