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Atheists split on how to not believe

info — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:16:30 +0000

BOSTON â€“ Atheists are under attack these days for being too militant, for not just disbelieving in religious faith but for trying to eradicate it. And whoâ€™s leveling these accusations? Other atheists, it turns out. Among the millions of Americans who donâ€™t believe God exists, thereâ€™s a split between people such as Greg Epstein, who [...]

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Atheists split on how to not believe

What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?

info — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:09:16 +0000

These two paragraphs are taken directly from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: â€œThe ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from [...]

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What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?

Oprah’s school ‘too strict’

info — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:58:21 +0000

Gavin Prins Johannesburg – The rules at Oprah Winfrey’s ultra-posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg are apparently so strict they make a reformatory look like a holiday resort. That’s the word from upset parents, who say the school rules make it difficult for them to keep contact with their children. They would have aired their [...]

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Oprah’s school ‘too strict’

Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers

info — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:57:07 +0000

CNN reported that warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines — nothing more than what one child advocate calls “cannon fodder.” Some children are kidnapped from their schools or their beds, some are recruited after seeing their parents slaughtered, some may even choose to join the militias as their [...]

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Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers

McDonalds creams Starbucks in Coffee survey

info — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:38:13 +0000

Belfasttelegraph reported that Consumer testers in the US have declared coffee from McDonald’s better than the brew at Starbucks. The burger chain’s Premium Roast was chosen as the tastiest by Consumer Reports magazine. It also beat the offerings at Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts. The trained sippers found the $1.55 Starbucks coffee “strong, but burnt [...]

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McDonalds creams Starbucks in Coffee survey

Studies show the rich have better sex than average people

info — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:25:12 +0000

The richer you are, apparently, the better sex you have. That’s according to a recent survey of more than 600 high-net-worth individuals. And rich women, it seems, enjoy sex the most. “In seeking a higher-quality sexual experience the number of well-heeled women that lead more adventurous and exotic sex lives, have had an affair, or [...]

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Studies show the rich have better sex than average people

Vaginal bear trap protects women against rape

info — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:11:14 +0000

The anti-rape female condom (aka vaginal bear trap) was invented by Sonette Ehlers, a South African woman. It is intended to prevent rape by hooking onto an attacker’s penis, hurting and disabling him. The device is a latex tube fitted internally with shafts of sharp, inward-facing plastic barbs that could be worn by a woman [...]

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Vaginal bear trap protects women against rape

Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims

info — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:13:17 +0000

Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims Men are smarter than women, according to a controversial new study that adds another cinder to the fiery debate over whether gender impacts general intelligence. “For 100 years there’s been a consensus among psychologists that there is no sex difference in intelligence,” said J. Philippe Rushton, a psychologist at [...]

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Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims

ExxonMobil cultivates global warming doubt

info — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:02:47 +0000

Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending $16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday. “ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” Alden Meyer of [...]

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ExxonMobil cultivates global warming doubt

Female bosses are more likely to discriminate against female employees

info — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:58:37 +0000

FORGET â€œjobs for the boysâ€. Women bosses are significantly more likely than men to discriminate against female employees, research has suggested. The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one. They were also prone to mark [...]

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Female bosses are more likely to discriminate against female employees