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Graphene: More Transformative Than Plastics?
See all four "chemical panels" athttp://www.cnn.com/2013/04/29/tech/graphene-miracle-material/***Graphene is the world's first two-dimensional material to be discoveredNo material is stronger, thinner...
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The Borowitz Report: "Antonin Scalia Never Going To Another N.B.A. Game"
WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia disrupted the normally tranquil atmosphere of the Supreme Court today, bursting from his office to shout, “I’m never going to another damn N.B.A. game as long as I...
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Conservative Columnist Michael Gerson Faults GOP
Criticism of Government Response to Hurricane Katrinahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_government_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina***Be sure to see the bipartisan team of Mann and Ornstein: "Let's...
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Amanda Knox and Sexual Mores
Skip to contentsubscribe to the new yorkCOMMENTFOREIGN STORYBY REBECCA MEADMAY 6, 2013In an early chapter of “The Portrait of a Lady,” Isabel Archer fends off Caspar Goodwood, her persistent American...
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Toddler Born Without a Windpipe Gets Artificial Trachea Made With Own Stem Cells
Hannah Warren, 2, was born without a windpipe and received an artificial trachea at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois. (Courtesy Jim Carlson/Saint Francis Medical Center)By KATIE...
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The Loss of Family Dinner... The Return of Agape-Love Feast?
Rubens' "Feast of Simon the Pharisee"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rubens-Feast_of_Simon_the_Pharisee.jpg***Dear Fred, Thanks for your email. We never know if our circle of friends is...
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Wrong Reality: How Our Brains Warp the World
Photographs of celebrities side-by-side appear to morph when one member of a pair has a face that is structured very differently from the other.YOUTUBE SCREEN...
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"Party of Family Values" Blesses Candidacy Of Adulterer-Divorcee. Rand Paul...
Alan: Personally, I don't give a squat. It's just that Republican hypocrisy is more powerful than ipecac. The GOP also supplied the United States with its only divorced president. Imagine if that...
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Puddleglum Speaks My Favorite Declaration of Faith
"The Prince and the two children were standing with their heads hung down, their cheeks flushed, their eyes half closed; the strength all gone from them; the enchantment almost complete. But...
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"Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture" by Tom Carney, National...
Alan: I have deliberately refrained from images of torture that might "give people ideas."I should also mention that I am a practicing Catholic.*** NationThis week's stories | Home PageIssue Date:...
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What's a monster hurricane doing on top of Saturn?
A monster hurricane at Saturn's north pole, spotted by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, has an eye 1,250 miles wide and inner eye wall winds of 330 miles an hour. Its energy source is a mystery. In this...
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Why An Immigration Deal Won't Solve The Farmworker Shortage
American farms like this iceberg lettuce field owned by Duda Farm Fresh Foods outside Salinas, Calif., are facing a dwindling supply of farm workers from rural Mexico.***NPR audio file at...
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Bucky Fuller. Expelled from Harvard. Contemplated Suicide. Chose To Serve...
Dear Fred,Thanks for your email.It was Paul Schulte who first brought Bucky Fuller to my attention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Buckminster_FullerI've been thinking about Bucky lately, and am...
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PEW Poll: American Muslim Attitudes And Behaviors
Poll shows how US Muslims are like Protestants – and how they're notBy Mark Trumbull | Christian Science Monitor – April 30, 2013A worldwide Pew poll of Muslims charts opinions on issues from women's...
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Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca On Teaching
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought...
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"Iraq on the brink, again" by Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-2009
View Photo Gallery — Iraqis go to polls for first time since U.S. pullout: Iraq carried out its first nationwide elections since the U.S. military withdrawal without significant bloodshed Saturday, in...
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Buckminster Fuller's Attempted Suicide... And What Happened Next
Alan: I fully understand that unbearable pain can drive people to suicide. I relay the following information only to praise Bucky who, as far as I know, was not experiencing unbearable, unhinging pain....
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Tax Rates Under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower
The 1950'sAmerica's Golden Age***While building the Interstate Highway System, Ike paid down a national debt whose percentage of GDP was greater than America's current debt-to-GDP ratio.
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The American public knows it’s downwardly mobile. Americans don't know what...
By Harold MeyersonApril 30, 2013The American public knows it’s downwardly mobile. What it doesn’t know is what it can do to arrest, much less reverse, that trend.The public’s awareness of its plight...
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