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(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed directly to far right voters on Monday with pledges to get tough on immigration and security, after a record showing in a first round election by the National Front made them potential kingmakers. Full Article
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Image via Mark Shea: It's easy as pie to generalize to millions of people the crimes of a few. We Catholics have had it done to us. And we can have it done to us again.
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Stephanie Sinclair travelled around rural Afghanistan photographing child brides in 2003. She returned with a series of moving, upsetting portraits of terrified adolescents born into a world of misogynistic duties and suicidal despair. The question above is one Sinclair asked of a man who had just won someone's daughter in a bet. He replied: "Well, we have a saying out here that if she doesn't fall down when you hit her with your cap, she's old enough to marry."
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Good question. It doesn't mean all our contributors agree with each other, but we do share a broad commitment to working toward a society in which everyone gets a fair shot and is treated equally and with respect by our institutions. If you put our vision on a bumper sticker, it would read: Hey, We're in This Together or—according to our fans on Facebook — Hey, We Actually Care About People ! You can read more about who we are here . When the Prospect was founded in 1990, conservatism—buoyed by a decade of Republican rule—was ascendent; under Reagan, income inequality ballooned.
While liberal Christians argue the Bible should be interpreted as society changes, conservatives argue for a more literal reading, leading to differences in belief about God and homosexuality.
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The FDA is giving serious consideration to our petition to require that all over-the-counter homeopathic drugs meet the standards of effectiveness applicable to non-homeopathic drugs. Read the letter from the FDA » On ABC’s popular show Castle , in an episode titled “Undead Again” (aired April 30, 2012), Detective Beckett summons the show’s writer/consultant namesake to a murder scene where the victim’s body bears severe human bite marks. The only witness also has bite marks that match those on the dead man, and the witness insists their assailant was a zombie! Freethought from the Heartland with Reba Boyd Wooden
This article is available in: T he United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd.
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View the photos . On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country." The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He's hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval.
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Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, first captured the elegant beauty of branching neurons in his simple ink drawings 100 years ago. These entries for the 2012 Art of Neuroscience competition in the Netherlands use modern imaging techniques to show how far our view into the brain has come. 04.10.2012 From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. 04.06.2012 A hyperactive five-year-old is having trouble fitting in at school. Does he have ADHD, or could his behavior be a clue to a deeper, genetic problem?Digg - The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images
Hmm. Definetly introvert. ; > Okay, back to work everyone. by Sep 25
btw, thx. and so much for grammar! (wry grin) by Sep 24
Yes, I looked too, not at the FAQs but at the site, and yes, Plurk=tweet. I prefer actual english with complete sentences and grammar and everything. But that's me ; >! by Sep 24
I looked into Plurk, according to Plurk's FAQ, it is "A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, and follow the events of the people that matter to you, in deliciously digestible short messages called plurks. " So I guess it's supposed to be another facebook/twitter. by Sep 24
So . . . send me a pearl. Something I would like. by Sep 24
hmmmm? Now *there's* an introvert! ; > by Sep 24
Being the introvert that I am, I wouldn't mind finding an "anti-social" journal/blog. ; > Will look at Plurk - does it mean something - to blink and purr at the same time or something? by Sep 24
What will be the impact of the debate in Parliament of an anti-choice motion? Debate began this week on a Conservative MP's motion 312 which seeks to establish a parliamentary committee to review criminal code subsection 223(1) which states that a child becomes a human at the moment of birth. This is seen as an indirect means to re-open the abortion debate in Canada?