""A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army...We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." Thomas Jefferson,One of the...
"In what appears to be a planned series of attacks on church-goers in different districts of the state, separate groups of miscreants unleashed violence on churches in Udupi, Mangalore and Chikmagalur on Sunday morning.Around ten prayer centres in Mangalore were vandalised,...
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"Benjamin B. Bolger's story seems like a hoax. At age 32, he says, he has just earned his 11th advanced degree: a doctorate that Harvard University awarded him on Thursday.Mr. Bolger's unlikely story has another twist: He is dyslexic. "
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As Spain's socialists are reelected, Malta's conservative government is also kept in power in another extreemly close vote." Malta's conservative Nationalist Party, in power in the tiny Mediterranean state for...
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Our mission
is to help disperse human genes and memes throughout outer space, to other
galaxies, thereby giving them much longer life spans than they have here on
earth.
Outer space is far...
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Our mission is to help disperse
human genes and memes throughout outer space, to other galaxies, thereby giving
them much longer life spans than they have here on earth.
Outer
space is far less dense than earth, and the...
created by agmon | 2 years ago 252 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I was visiting New York this weekend, so I was out and around and didn't spend a couple of hours reading the NYTimes, so I glanced at Mark Helprin's Op-Ed called A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright? but didn't go over it, nor did I blog about it....
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"Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness (Nepalnews Special)
- By Sanjaya Dhakal
While Nepal basks in the post conflict glow of relative peace and freedom, some districts in the southeastern plains of the country continue to reel under perpetual fear and terror as bands of...
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