Archives for: April 2010
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Georgia President Saakashvili: Russian hostility won't sap our commitment to democracy
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Tbilisi In 2003, the Rose Revolution in Georgia was the first of a wave of popular standoffs against authoritarianism, fraud, and corruption in the post-Soviet area. Skip to next paragraph Related StoriesIn Georgia election, Saakashvili's manda… more »
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan, in Washington. Moscow Today
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Last month, NPR News announced the retirement of correspondent Anne Garrels, who's been my friend and colleague here for the past 23 years. You will remember her reports from Tiananmen Square in Beijing and Firdaws Square in Baghdad, from the wars in Che… more »
Why Google Employees Quit
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In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information othe… more »
Bizarre Matter Could Find Use in Quantum Computers
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From left, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du, graduate students Chi Zhang and Yanhua Dai, and former postdoctoral researcher Tauno Knuuttila (not pictured) have found that odd groupings of ultracold electrons could be useful in making fault-tolerant quantum comp… more »
Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories
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Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World Christine Fitzgerald, a confidante of Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that Diana told her that the Royal Family were Reptilian aliens, and that they could shapeshift. David Icke's --BBC r… more »
Genocide in the 20th Century
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Armenians in Turkey 1915 - 1918 1,500,000 deaths The first genocide of the 20th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres. For three thousan… more »
Iceland Volcano Pictures: Lightning Adds Flash to Ash
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A blast of white-hot lightning crackles over Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Sunday. Clouds of volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull have snarled European air traffic for nearly a week. National Geographic Your Shot submitter Peter Vancoillie took t… more »
The Fall Of The Soviet Union
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 some 70 years after its grimly riveting and highly expectant Marxist-Leninist beginning ranks alongside World War I as the two most singularly pivotal events of the Twentieth Century. In a sense, both are conjoine… more »
Nanotechnology Makes a Strong Boron-Cotton Fabric That Feels Like T-Shirt Material
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Cotton reinforced with boron carbide is tough and hard but nonetheless elastic. These properties indicate future promise, but this material is not yet bulletproof.American and Chinese researchers, together with ETH Zurich Professor Brad Ne… more »
There's bigger trouble ahead from Icelandic volcanoes as the world heats up, scientists warn
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This may just be the start of it. For vulcanologists are warning that there may be more, or bigger, Icelandic eruptions – like the one that has shut down air traffic in Europe for days – over the next decades as the world heats up. They say that melting… more »
Catastrophe in North Korea
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North Korea is as absolute a tyranny as the human imagination can devise. But its totalitarianism, quasi-religious veneration of personality and literal necrocracy (Kim Il Sung, the head of state, died in 1994) are not just outlandish aspects of an impen… more »
Major Breakthrough With Water Desalination System
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ScienceDaily (July 14, 2009) — Concern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought in recorded history. According to state's Department of Water Resources, supplies in major reserv… more »
Europe struggles with Muslim dress code
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ANTWERP, Belgium – Chances of seeing a burqa in Belgium are only a little better than spotting a liquor shop in Saudi Arabia. Yet Belgium soon may be the first European nation to outlaw the burqa and other Islamic garb that completely hides a woman's bod… more »
Medvedev faces a hard sell in Latin America
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When President Dmitri Medvedev planned his forthcoming trip through Latin America, Russia seemed poised to present one of the most visible challenges in years to U.S. influence in the region. With oil prices high, Russia was flush with cash and plannin… more »
The Battle for Tora Bora
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Four days before the fall of Kabul in November 2001, Osama bin Laden was still in town. The Al Qaeda leader’s movements before and after September 11 are difficult to trace precisely, but, just prior to the attacks, we know that he appeared in Kandahar a… more »
Israel's latest population transfer scheme
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"A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years. When the or… more »
Poland and Russia: reconciled in tragedy
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The air crash that killed Poland's leaders has led Russia to face its role in past horrors in Katyn There is no such thing as a good death. Every tragic death is senseless and aimless. But today Poles can bring some sense to this unprecedented tragedy… more »
China Vehicle Sales Soar to 1.7 Million Units in March, up 56%þ
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China's economic recovery seems to be on a solid footing this year as total vehicle sales in the country jumped 56 percent in March rising to an impressive total of 1.734 million units, according to the China Association of Automobile… more »
Worst-Made Cars on the Road
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you want to drive something dependable and long-lasting, steer clear of these vehicles. With a 22% improvement in sales last month, and despite the six-month, $4.3 billion loss it announced Wednesday, General Motors is likely to have its strongest spri… more »
The Doomsday Weapon
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This is an earlier article than "Hold Me Back" by Uri Avnery, but is equally interesting. Some 1942 years ago, the Jews in the province called Palaestina launched a revolt against the Roman Empire. In retrospect, this looks like an act of madness. Palest… more »
