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- OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present
  Posted by okami
  Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The
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- Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans
  Posted by theangryindian from ABC News
  In an apparent violation of U.S. policy, Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar were asked by a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country, according to Peace Corps personnel and the Fulbright scholar involved.
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- Bill Richardson makes it short, sweet and brutal
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Jazz-from-hell.blogspot
  Gov. Richardson released a statement re: the recent intel estimate that says Iran shelved their nuclear weapons program years ago, an assessment which differs greatly from what Bush, Cheney, and various neocons chihuahuas have yapped of late and insist on even now. The key bit of Richardson's very brief statement...
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- Radiation Poisoning Killed Ex-Russian Spy
  Posted by chuckt from New York Times
  His name was Litvinenko, Alexander Litvinenko. And before he died he blamed Putin.
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- Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  To determine if there was a link between gender and intelligence, and perhaps between brain size and intelligence, Rushton and a colleague analyzed the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores from 100,000 17- and 18-year-olds. When Rushton and colleagues weighted each SAT question by an established general intelligence factor called the g-factor, they discovered that males surpassed females by an average of 3.6 IQ points.
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- Taller people are smarter
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it's not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality -- tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study finds. "As early as age three -- before schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests," wrote Anne Case and Christina Paxson of Princeton University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The findings were based primarily on two British studies that followed children born in 1958 and 1970, respectively, through adulthood and a U.S. study on height and occupational choice.
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- Does bin Laden trail lead to Pakistan?
  Posted by Jon from CNN
  According to a U.S. military intelligence official familiar with the hunt, bin Laden is likely hiding in an area called Chitral, in the far north of Pakistan, bounded by Afghanistan to the west and China to the north. Contrary to popular belief, the official said, bin Laden most likely isn't living in a cave but in a house, possibly with a family and no more than two bodyguards. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the hunt, said the thinking that bin Laden is in Chitral is based in part on trees that are peculiar to that region that can be seen in a 2003 video of bin Laden walking in a mountainous region.
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gp77 comments on:
Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans

they are putting those scholars in a bad position with that kind of request

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3:16 am 2/18/08
gp77 comments on:
Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans

wow…

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3:16 am 2/18/08
Damianmann comments on:
Taller people are smarter
yeah nut, they can reach the books on the top shelf. Midgets can't do that.
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11:02 am 8/26/06
Billbar comments on:
Taller people are smarter
Explains the behavior of all those pro sportsmen. *cough*
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6:40 am 8/26/06

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