Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
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Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
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Mugabe Allies Intensify Bid to Take Farms of Whites – washingtonpost.com
The targeting of Stockdale Farm, where unarmed squatters have done little more than plow one field and hang around, is part of a surge in recent attempts by cronies of President Robert Mugabe to confiscate the last of Zimbabwe’s white-owned properties, farmers’ advocacy groups say.
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At the Heart of North Korea's Troubles, an Intractable Hunger Crisis – washingtonpost.com
Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the country cannot feed its people. Perennially dependent on food aid, North Korea has become a truculent ward of the wealthy countries it threatens. It is the world’s first nuclear-armed, missile-wielding beggar — a particularly intricate challenge for the Obama administration as it begins to formulate a foreign policy.
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CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.
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Tactical Success, Strategic Defeat – washingtonpost.com
Exactly what happened next is disputed, but shots were fired and a man inside fell dead. Four other men were grabbed and arrested. Then the soldiers departed, leaving the women to calm the frightened children and the rumors to spread in the dark.
By midmorning, hundreds of angry people were blocking the nearby highway, burning tires and shouting “Death to America!” By mid-evening, millions of Afghan TV news viewers were convinced that foreign troops had killed an unarmed man trying to answer his door.
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3 Sierra Leoneans Guilty Of Multiple War Crimes – washingtonpost.com
The charges against all three include amputation, murder, enlistment of child soldiers and sexual slavery. They also include forced marriage, the enslavement that countless young girls suffered when their villages were raided and they were forced to “marry” a rebel.
Wednesday’s convictions marked the first time that the forced-marriage charge was successfully handed down in an international court of law.
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Crime Watch: Of Axes and Car Hackings
A few years ago, while hanging out at my future wife’s apartment, I opened a cupboard in her cramped bathroom. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, and I can’t recall my exact motivation. What I found hanging in this cupboard above the toilet, however, made me uneasy: a small ax.
“Uh, I don’t mean to sound paranoid or anything, but do you think you could get rid of that ax in the bathroom?” I asked her after exiting.
I had been covering crime for the MT for about a year at that point, and it seemed every second murder played out the same way: friends or lovers drink, friends or lovers argue, one of friends or lovers grabs ax and hacks other friend or lover to death. Postmortem dismemberment by the killer was an occasional twist in these cases. -
Politkovskaya Suspects Walk Free
A jury on Thursday acquitted three men charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, winning praise from Politkovskaya’s family for not accepting what they called a poorly investigated case.
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Inside human parts market in Lagos
A week ago, our reporter posed as a juju priest who was in dire need of human body parts for urgent rituals. After about four hours of waiting and being passed from one “contact” to another, and played around like ping-pong, the reporter got a dealer who “booked” him. The rule here is, if you want a fresh human body part, you book and wait. If your order is for dry parts you get instant delivery.
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I Am Jesus – ThankGod Chukwuma
If you are a believer of the prophecies in the Christians holy writ, then we are indeed in the end time. Barely two months ago, Sunday Sun exclusively reported the story of a man in Lagos, who claims to be Christ’s only viceroy on earth, revealing the unpleasant happenings in his enclave. Yet, before our very eyes, another one has emerged, brazenly proclaiming himself the Jesus Christ that true believers are earnestly expecting.
Amazingly, unlike Jesus of Nazareth, the Enugu State-born ThankGod Chukwuma (his earthly name) is married (for the third time) and has children.
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Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between 'One Man And One Wolfman'
On the heels of the historic typo, voters in Utah passed a similar referendum a week later, defining marriage as between one man and 23 wolfmen.
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In Russia, a Grisly Message Marks Rise in Hate Crimes
The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo — that of a man’s severed head resting on a wooden chopping block.
“This surprise was prepared for Moscow officials by concerned Russian people who can no longer tolerate the invasion of foreigners in their native city,” the message declared, accusing darker-skinned migrant workers from the Caucasus and Asia of “an unprecedented wave of criminality that has swamped our capital.”
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Iranian Woman Blinded by Spurned Suitor Persuades Court to Punish Him Similarly
“At an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone’s eyes to be dripped with acid,” she said in a recent interview, as rain poured against the windows of her parents’ small apartment in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Tehran. “I am doing that because I don’t want this to happen to any other women.”
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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 – TIME
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American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers
FORT WORTH, TX—Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier.
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Marry a dwarf? – The Sun News On-line
The best assistance I could ever render to dwarfs is to be their friends, perhaps if they happen to be my course-mate. Aside that, I cannot shop for dwarfs, com-m-on. Though I like to watch them in their very funny statures because they are quite funny and portable to walk with. I also like them because, many of them have great dreams while some of them are great achievers. Most dwarfs don’t limit themselves in their life pursuit. Most of them are very serious and work harder than people with greater heights
