Over the course of four months before the defeat of the Japanese forces in March 1945, Mr Makino cut open the bodies of ten Filipino prisoners, including two teenage girls. He amputated their limbs, and cut up and removed their healthy livers, kidneys, wombs and still beating hearts for no better reason than to...
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Prospects of a Mediterranean oil and gas bonanza have sparked a fresh row between Turkey and the divided island of Cyprus.
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Electoral fear of Hilary Clinton may compel social conservative activists to be more pragmatic than they would have been if Bush’s poll ratings were stronger or if the party had retained control of Congress.
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A woman who told authorities she was fed up with tailgaters pulled out a gun and shot at the tires of a pickup that got too close, police said.
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“We are raping Jews because of what the IDF is doing to the Palestinians in the territories.”
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Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.
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Late last week, Ted Kennedy celebrated his 75th birthday. On Saturday, there was a birthday bash, notably headlined by the Gin Blossoms, as all of Ted’s parties are even when there’s no band present. We’ve had a lot of fun at the Senator’s expense over the years, but I’d like to take this opportunity...
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 No president in recent history has been mocked, second-guessed, criticized and condemned more than George W. Bush. It’s not my purpose to defend Dubya, he deserves much of the abuse, but I have to admit that he hasn’t lost his good nature. Contrast Bush’s reaction to adversity with the way Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
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News item: Bones of Jesus found, Canadian documentary claims Monday, February 26, 2007 Titanic director James Cameron and Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici say they aren’t trying to undermine Christianity in their new documentary that claims the remains of Jesus, his wife, Mary Magdalene, and their child have been found. Oscar-winner Cameron and Gemini-winner Jacobovici...
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Do you ever wonder if your gifts to charity are being used as well as they could be? If so, you’re not alone. A 2002 study by the Brookings Institution found four out of five Americans doubt that charities are stewarding donations well. And although 83% of U.S. adults report giving to charity in...
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Stocks plunged Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 220 points as Wall Street joined a global market decline sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices have become overinflated.
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A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a park popular with young soccer players, killing at least 18 boys in a city west of Baghdad known as a center of the Sunni insurgency, police said.
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Singer Bobby Brown was ordered on Monday to remain in a Norfolk County jail until he paid $ 19,000 in late child support and court fees, his lawyer said.
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Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
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The 55 tribes of the Pacific Northwest say the “S-word,” once commonly used when referring to an American Indian woman, is demeaning and never uttered on reservations.
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A U.S. warship yesterday moved into waters off the coast of Somalia, where pirates have hijacked an empty World Food Program cargo ship.
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Concerns about the health of the U.S. economy drove bonds higher and the dollar lower on Monday, while tension over Iran’s nuclear ambitions kept oil above $61 a barrel, crimping gains in U.S. stocks.
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A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf.
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We’re told constantly by Democrats and others opposing the war that they “support the troops, but hate the war.” This never made much sense to me, as it’s a little like saying you love eggs but hate chickens. As a matter of fact, there are times when “support the troops, hate the war” gets completely...
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Teeth are a vitally important part of us. They enable us to chew solid food and help to give form to our mouths. But we must lose our teeth, sometimes twice but always at least once in our lives. We first lose our teeth when we are children and the loss of something so...
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