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After Afghan Massacre, War Gets Victim Status : Media treat killings as PR problem for occupation 3/12/12 The news that a U.S. Army sergeant killed 16 civilians, most of them children, in southern Afghanistan early Sunday morning was treated by many media outlets primarily as a PR challenge for continued war and occupation of that country. "Afghanistan, once the must-fight war for America, is becoming a public relations headache for the nation's leaders, especially for President Barack Obama," explained an Associated Press analysis piece ( 3/12/12 ).
FAIR
A man accused of shooting a Richmond man to death earlier this year during an alleged robbery now faces the possibility of life without parole.
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The Daily Galaxy
“We have successfully uncovered and mapped the most comprehensive long-distance network of the Macaque monkey brain, which is essential for understanding the brain’s behavior, complexity, dynamics and computation,” announced Dharmendra S. Modha of IBM this past fall. The brain network they found contains a “tightly integrated core that might be at the heart of higher cognition and even consciousness … and may be a key to the age-old question of how the mind arises from the brain.”
The Progressive
One of Romney's staffers offered up a perfect crystallization: the Etch- A- Sketch candidate. The major difference being, the child’s toy works via magnetism, a concept that continues to elude the former governor of Massachusetts.
The Huffington Post
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Jerusalem is known as the nation’s political and spiritual capital, its largest city and a holy site of great significance to the three monotheistic religions. However, if Chen Levin, director of BioJerusalem, has her way, a new jewel will be added to the city’s crown: the title of world leader in biotechnology. According to Levin, who is spearheading the group’s program to attract biotechnology companies to Jerusalem, the city is already well on its way to realizing her dream. “A substantial infrastructure for a major biotech industry in Jerusalem is already in place,” she says.
The Jerusalem Post
We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military." [includes rush transcript]
