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Drawing points to Iran nuke tinkering
A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there.
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NKorea vows to turn South’s leadership to ashes
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea sharply escalated the rhetoric against its southern rival, claiming it will soon conduct “special actions” that would reduce South Korea’s conservative government to ashes within minutes. Monday’s threat from the North’s military leadership comes amid concerns that North Korea may be plotting another provocation in the wake of
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It Is Worth Fighting … Even When There Is No Hope of Winning
Preface: The only people who should read this are folks who want a better world. Everyone else - please ignore it ... it will be a TOTAL waste of time ... Our Actions Are More Powerful Than We Realize David Swanson writes today: Almost every [history of past activism] includes belated discoveries of the extent to which government officials were influenced by activist groups even while ...
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Naveen Selvadurai’s Next Project Explores the Quantified Self
Don’t call it a startup– at least not yet –but Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai dropped some hints about an upcoming personal project at an event at Union Square Monday evening, as Erick Schonfeld revealed on Twitter. The de-Crunched tech blogger was at the VC firm for an event about “Networked Health,” and Mr. Selvadurai’s proposition, taken straight from the Quantified Self rule book ...
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School board: College-essay writing help needed
by Chris Kenrick Palo Alto students' need for help with college essay-writing emerged as a theme Tuesday in a Board of Education discussion of the school district's transition to a new academic calendar.
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Make room, Melbourne
State's population predicted to hit 7.3 million, as government reveals which suburbs will swell the most.
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Information hoarders
History professor and author of "Too Much to Know" Ann Blair tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organized and used information. Our topic is the history of information. Before we broach the books, please sketch the evolution of this subject as a field of academic inquiry. The history of information has developed especially in the last 10 ...
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