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Scary paranoid right-wing NRA pamphlet.
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Ski Bonk is a mashup of SnoCountry, OnTheSnow, Weather Underground, the National Weather Service, and several other data feeds to provide a graphical view of worldwide skiing conditions on a google map. Use the dropdown box on the right hand of the screen
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Today, more than 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and well over 20 million more have died since the first case was diagnosed in 1981. When we include families and loved ones in the raw demographics, HIV/AIDS has touched a population at least eq
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“Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq”, “Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq”, “Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War”, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq”
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Contrary to older theories predicting the unstoppable course of secularization, the world is becoming more religious and more religiously assertive. Western Europe may be the exception, even though that is much in dispute. Beyond dispute is the new promin
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Perhaps, just perhaps, the 2006 mid-term elections will give pause to the “long-term trend” school—industry, actually—of American politics. For years, pundits have been telling us, and it became the received wisdom, that the Republicans have been and
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Belatedly, I’ve learned that LOL means Laughing Out Loud, and POS means Parent Over Shoulder (i.e., change the subject, fast). Young people invented this shorthand for e-mail and instant messaging, and you can hear their attitudes and concerns in it — f
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Current citizenship laws in the European Union vary dramatically. The tension between freedom of movement and national self-determination of citizenship within the EU has the potential to create serious conflicts in the future, writes Rainer Bauböck. Tak
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Like the three services celebrated earlier in the morning and the four that will follow into the afternoon, the 10:45 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles is crammed to the rafters, even thou
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Quaero was supposed to be the European answer to Google, but the Franco-German project has collapsed. Now the Germans will focus on their own project, Theseus — but the French still want to make “Quaero” a search engine of the future.
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Make outlandish demands. Appear unyielding. Threaten to bolt at the slightest provocation.These vintage tactics are once again on display as North Korea, this time a nuclear power, sits down for international talks over its nuclear program.
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People like to think of the courtroom as a crucible of justice, but to me it’s always seemed a diluter of passions. The atmosphere is restrained, so respectful and genteel it’s easy to forget that people’s lives hang in the balance. The system has a way o
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Endurance running may be a derived capability of the genus Homo and may have been instrumental in the evolution of the human body form. Two hypotheses have been presented to explain why early Homo would have needed to run long distances: scavenging and pe
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The November 2006 issue of the American Political Science Review completes the one-hundredth volume of the Review, which began publication in November 1906. To mark this occasion, the contents of the issue center on the theme of “The Evolution of Politica
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The late William Simon, former Secretary of Treasury in the Ford Administration, was not your usual government functionary. As evidence, his 1978 memoirs titled, A Time For Truth, became one of the most influential books of the past 50 years, for it clari
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With a life story that reads like an adventure novel, Bolivian VP Alvaro Garcia Linera is Evo Morales’ Karl Rove — and one of the most interesting figures in the new Latin left.
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As elections approach, Serbia’s liberals hope that voters see their future in Europe, while the right appeals to notions of an honored but betrayed past.
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War has inspired some of the greatest works of literature. Writers from Thucydides to Walt Whitman, from Whittaker Chambers to Kurt Vonnegut, have been shaped by what they witnessed on the battlefield or in its immediate aftermath. Leo Tolstoy, the author
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21st century nationalism is linked to appearances and emblems; not ethics, but aesthetics, says Bulgarian cultural anthropologist Ivaylo Ditchev.
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Sir Isaiah Berlin, a Latvian-born Oxford philosopher who died in 1997, may well have ranked among the greatest conversationalists who ever lived. According to Robert Darnton, a Princeton historian, Berlin’s friends would “watch him as if he were a trape
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It’s been a bloody first half of the dry season in Uganda’s Karamoja region. October to February is the time when grass turns brittle, mud dries and cracks, and competition for scarce resources increases. More than 40 people have died in recent weeks in f
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In two short months Operation Enduring Freedom transformed the strategic landscape not only of Afghanistan, but also Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. It did so in ways that were largely unforseen and unplanned at the outset of the war and th
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The border guard with the gold teeth asks me if I speak Russian. “Choot choot,” I smile back. A little. “Open the bag,” he snaps. I do as I’m told, and of course the first thing he finds is the caviar. Eight big pots of it, wrapped in my underwe
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The Centre for Mongol Studies (CMS) of the National University of Mongolia (NUM) was established in 2001, as a non-profit, non-political, NUM component center interested in promoting the Mongol Studies, connecting Mongolian language, history, literature,
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Turkmenistan Youth and Civic Values Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to developing and encouraging civic values, international experience, and community engagement in the peoples of Turkmenistan. We are incorporated in Washington, D.C. and o