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- No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
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  The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
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- US 'surge' likely to end with more troops in Iraq than before: general
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  The US "surge" is likely to end in July with more troops in Iraq than the 132,000 that were there before five extra combat brigades were sent in more than a year ago, a senior Pentagon official said.
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- Coal Gasification - Myths, Challenges And Opportunities
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  There is a growing consensus that increased demand for electricity will cement coal's place in the energy portfolio for years to come. In fact, more than half of the electricity produced in the United States comes from coal.
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- Mideast crisis keeps growing
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  To try and better understand the Middle East, it helps to take in a broader perspective of the situation -- to step back and examine the problem with some distance.
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- The Dumbing Of America
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
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- Proposed shake up of EU security includes call for fingerprinting all visitors - International Heral
  Posted by theangryindian from International Herald Tribune
  BRUSSELS, Belgium: A top EU official on Wednesday proposed fingerprinting and screening all visitors who cross the bloc's borders — and using a satellite system to keep out illegal immigrants — as part of a massive shake up of security at Europe's borders.
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- The world's most extravagant trips
  Posted by DrupalLogin from MSNBC
  Pretty interesting list of trips the super wealthy are planning to make. Make those Bush tax cuts permanent?
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U.S. to rely on Russia for manned spaceflight - International Herald Tribune

McCain denounced Russia as a KGB run state and has called to oust Russia from the G8. How will this partnership be affected if he gets voted in?

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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

this sucks

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