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Source: The Corner

Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard takes a quick canter through Spain’s recent history: …Spain is prostrate because EMU [monetary union] policy settings have been ruinous for most of the past decade. Interest rates in the mid-2000 ...
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India’s cartoon controversy

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan

The writer is a stage director, filmmaker and journalist in Bangalore. He is a co-founder of the Suchitra Centre for Film and Drama Recent protests in Delhi by followers of Dr B R Ambedkar demanding revocation of the Padma Vibhushan, I ...
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Source: Sandwalk

Casey Luskin recently offered advice on the The Top Three Flaws in Darwinian Evolution. [see The Top Three Flaws In Evolutionary Theory ] At the end of that post he referred readers to The College Student's Back-to-School Guide to Intelligent Des ...
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Philip Glass opera Kepler presents an analytic mind in anguish

Source: Charleston City Paper

If astrophysics is a holy calling, Philip Glass' opera Kepler is its liturgy. In director Sam Helfrich's Spoleto Festival production of the biographical work about the 16th- and 17th-century mathematician-astronomer Johannes Kepl ...
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Jury Blames `Erin Brockovich’ Doc For His Patient’s Illness, Not Defendants

Source: Forbes Blogs

Just don't go for the chelation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A Los Angeles jury looked at the evidence presented by a woman who claimed she was poisoned by hydraulic fluid in a bizarre elevator accident — and decided her own doctor ...
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Event: Mitch Fatel on Saturday, Jun 2 at Turner Hall Ballroom

Source: The A.V. Club

Mitch Fatel acts like he’s mentally challenged. That’s what his soft, slightly pitched lisp and onstage fidgeting would imply, except Fatel isn’t actually challenged (at least, not in a textbook way). It’s all just part of his onst ...
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Young turkey hunters find success afield as they learn from mentors

Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

This spring turkey season, Timothy Bechtold was leaving nothing to chance. Å The 13-year-old Webster resident studied his hunting videos, went to the range to become proficient with his 20-gauge shotgun, practiced his calling, and logged a ton of pre-s ...
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The primary's most important race

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com

Dwight Jones is not an elected official, but the Clark County School District superintendent might as well be. The local teachers union has made an otherwise low-profile School Board primary all about him - and in the process turned the campaign into ...
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Achievers tout role of parents, teachers

Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette

This year’s Student Achievement Award winners have, in most cases, another six years of school ahead of them but strong parents and teachers behind them. Telegram ...
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