The headline from a British tabloid. It seems that it is finally dawning on us that we have successfully poisoned ourselves as a species. The mentioned UN report is pretty weak by any standard though.
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“..Under the cover of the furore, it quietly disinterred the corpse of its ‘Secret Justice’ Bill. This Bill creates extraordinary new legal powers to keep official dealings hidden from us. It changes all the comforting certainties about the rule of law in Britain…”
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Except the north Eastern Levant wasn’t Kurdish 10,000 years ago. The olive tree is just the latest staple crop to be traced to this region. The people living there back then must have been geniuses.
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Prince Charles has attacked British schools for failing to install ‘character’ in pupils and making them virtually unemployable.
The Prince said the education system is leaving children bereft of vital life skills and unable to develop the confidence needed to develop into successful adults.
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Three months after crowds celebrated another election triumph for the president, the mood in Caracas is transformed
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A federal judge has refused to recuse herself from the closely watched trial of jailed computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, an alleged member of the group “Anonymous” charged with hacking into the computers of the private intelligence firm Stratfor and turning over some five million emails to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
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Former state chemist Annie Dookhan pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court today to 27 indictments for allegedly mishandling and tainting drug evidence, including one case where she claimed to have tested a drug sample that wasn’t even in her laboratory at the time.
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The long held believe is that life developed in the Earth’s oceans and then conquered the lands. The latest fossil discoveries indicate that this might have happened the other way around. Another perfectly well established theory out of the window!
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The female officer, who is in her 30s, is the model for the main character in “Zero Dark Thirty,”a film that chronicles the decade-long hunt for the al-Qaeda chief and that critics are describing as an Academy Award front-runner even before its Dec. 19 release.
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Another arbitrary list of best places to live. I’ve lived in two of the top ten cities and have visited many more cited in this list. Let me tell you; I do not agree at all.
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