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After 10 years of civil war, Sierra Leone is at peace. Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted April 26 by an international tribunal of 11 counts of planning, aiding and abetting war crimes committed in Sierra Leone during it's civil war in the 1990s. Taylor was guilty of involvement in crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, slavery and the use of child soldiers.
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iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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Hello friends, Some big changes are coming to Stratepedia. I wish I could say they’re exciting changes, or at least changes I’m happy about, but they’re not. I don’t want to get into too many details right now, because they’re still being sorted out–but the long and short of it is we’re not going to have the time to carry on this blog as we have for nearly five years (yes, it started more than five years ago, but it was June of 2007 when we started posting news-you-can-use-type stuff).
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For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two ... > full story A new result from the European Southern Observatory's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than ... > full story The pulsar at the center of the famous Crab Nebula is a veritable bundle of energy.