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Not So Quiet on the Third Front

Politics – At this rate, the October Surprise won't be very surprising. The threats, counterthreats, and counter-counterthreats between Israel, Iran and the United States have reached new levels of hysteria in recent days.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 10:13pm

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The Economy? Words Fail Me.

Money – Think you're worried about the economy? Phillip Swagel is a wreck. The assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy, Swagel came out for his monthly economic briefing yesterday, 90 minutes after the Labor Department reported that the country had shed jobs in June for the sixth straight month.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 10:04pm

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Very Young Girls: A Look at the Harrowing Lives of Child Prostitutes

Family – "Very Young Girls" is an 83-minute documentary film that opens on Friday at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village. The film offers a vivid and disturbing look at the sexual exploitation and trafficking of teenage girls in New York City. The average age of girls when they enter the sex industry is 13.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 09:57pm

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Justice Dept. Admits Error in Supreme Court Case

News – In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military and should have informed the Supreme Court of that fact while the justices were considering whether death was a constitutional punish

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 02:24am

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Bush Officials Condoned Regional Iraqi Oil Deal

Politics – Bush administration officials told Hunt Oil last summer that they did not object to its efforts to reach an oil deal with the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, even while the State Department was publicly expressing concern that such contracts could undermine a national Iraqi petroleum law, according to documents obtained by a House com

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 02:19am

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Deep Down, We Can't Fool Even Ourselves

Science – "Anyone who is on 'our team' is excused for moral transgressions," said Dr. DeSteno, a psychologist at Northeastern University. "The importance of group cohesion, of any type, simply extends our moral radius for lenience. Basically, it's a form of one person's patriot is another's terrorist."

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 07:47am

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The Rival Chavez Won't Permit

Politics – Defenders of Hugo Chavez like to argue that there is no alternative to the Venezuelan caudillo other than the feckless and unpopular politicians who preceded him in the 1990s. The simple refutation of that canard is Leopoldo Lopez, the 37-year-old mayor of central Caracas, whose looks only underscore that he represents a fresh generation.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2008 10:35pm

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Scientists Identify the Brain's Activity Hub

Science – The outer layer of the brain, the reasoning, planning and self-aware region known as the cerebral cortex, has a central clearinghouse of activity below the crown of the head that is widely connected to more-specialized regions in a large network similar to a subway map, scientists reported Monday.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2008 10:12pm

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New Technology Makes It Easier to See Microbleeds in the Brain, but What Should Be Done About Them?

Science – Until recently, microbleeds were all but unknown. Now, with improved scans, they are turning up constantly; one recent study found them in the brains of 1 out of 5 people age 60 and older. And they are leading to a classic conundrum of modern medicine: Just because something turns up on an M.R.I. scan, is it significant? And what to do about it?

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Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2008 10:06pm

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Federal Appeals Court Is Skeptical of U.S. Evidence in Guantanamo Case

Do No Evil – In the first case to review the government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2008 09:50pm

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Book Review - 'Right Is Wrong,' by Arianna Huffington

Books – In an enraged yet conversational tone, Huffington argues that a lunatic fringe seized Ronald Reagan's party around the beginning of the new millennium and from this power base has commandeered the nation. She blames, among others, the "enabling" traditional news media and the Democratic Party, which has "tread far too lightly."

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Submitted and Voted for on June 29, 2008 09:39pm

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Slide Show: Siamese Galaxies and Toothy Fish

Science – And more science in pictures: disappearing Martian ice and undersea volcanoes.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 27, 2008 11:34pm

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Bob Barr: A Candidate Runs to a G.O.P. Chorus of 'Don't'

Politics – He has been called a spoiler. A would-be Ralph Nader. A thorn in the side of John McCain and the Republican establishment. None of it bothers Bob Barr, the former Republican congressman from Georgia turned Libertarian Party candidate for president, who gleefully recounted what he says a group of Republicans told him at a recent meeting: Don't ru

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Submitted and Voted for on June 27, 2008 11:22pm

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Tainted Tomatoes May Still Be Sold

Health & Fitness – Tomatoes carrying a rare form of salmonella that has sickened more than 800 people may still be on the market, federal officials said yesterday, two weeks after they first warned consumers about the risk.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 27, 2008 11:09pm

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How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

Science – Even if they do not understand the neuroscience behind source amnesia, campaign strategists can exploit it to spread misinformation. They know that if their message is initially memorable, its impression will persist long after it is debunked.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 27, 2008 07:57am

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