The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath today that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape, according to stories appearing in the News & Observer and Ace of Spades HQ. Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security of Burlington,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP In one of the largest Internet fraud cases in US history, federal fraud charges were filed on Thursday against 21 defendants who allegedly participated in an international fraud scheme in which victims were led to believe that they were purchasing items that were listed for sale on the Internet, typically...
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Mention Bettie (sometimes spelled Betty) Page and the image that springs to mind is of a pretty, smiling young woman with black hair, trademark short bangs across her forehead, posed provocatively. Bettie Page was a prominent pin-up of the 1950s who won a cult following through pictures both classically sensual and distinctly kinky. The...
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Now, his largely unexplored views on topics ranging from the beginning of organic life to the origin of heat and flame, are available electronically for access by scholars, scientists and the general public.
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I love and admire both Condoleezza Rice and Newt Gingrich. Keep them in sight for 2008. Dr. Rice is already most experienced in being Secretary of State among other things, and would be a naturally fine ambassador as the Vice-President is often summoned to be and without the constraints of the State Department. It’s also...
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You might want to re-read that quote so you’re sure you got it right, because it’s not a typo. Five months ago, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about 50 miles from where I sit, an Islamic woman was kicked off a city bus for wearing a veil that covered her face. It really left an emotional...
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Fidel Castro telephoned a meeting of provincial legislative leaders who reacted with jubilant applause to the call from their ailing leader, Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper said Saturday.
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The BBC is reporting that healthy new-born babies appear to have been killed in order to harvest stem cells for the flourish stem cell trade that has begun in the country. Dr. Hwang Woo-Sook was found last year to have fabricated his scientific claims on stem cell research. A scandal which in no small...
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A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton’s impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.
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In a land as prosperous as that of the United States, from time to time parents must remind their offspring that the Christmas season is not suppose to be as much about the gift as about the sentiment behind the present. However, as charities themselves degenerate into bloated bureaucracies more concerned about perpetuating themselves...
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Vegetarians are more intelligent, says study Another rubbishy finding that ignores social class Frequently dismissed as cranks, their fussy eating habits tend to make them unpopular with dinner party hosts and guests alike. But now it seems they may have the last laugh, with research showing vegetarians are more intelligent than their meat-eating friends....
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 Far from being an evil dictator, Pinochet rescued Chile Historian James Whelan says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, former Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet averted civil war and saved millions from the destruction of socialism  Six months before Salvador Allende was overthrown on September 11, 1973, Volodia Teitelboim told an interviewer for the...
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 The great equalizer A good editorial below: Unless you get upstate New York television stations on your satellite dish or surf TV stations’ Web sites, you probably haven’t heard about what happened to Raymond and Joyce Papin. On Dec. 4, the couple had retired for the evening when they heard a noise in...
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Macaca: a genus of monkeys Macaca (slur): is a dismissive epithet used by francophone colonials in Central Africa‘s Belgian Congo for the native population. Definitions from Wikipedia Before this year “macaca” was a word known only to those who have an inordinate interest in monkeys and to racists with a penchant for uttering obscure...
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