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New Zealand named world's most peaceful nation - Telegraph

  • The South Pacific nation of four million people and 40 million sheep has
    knocked Iceland off its perch after violent demonstrations followed the
    collapse of Reykjavik's banking system.

Why cats fail to grasp string theory - life - 01 June 2009 - New Scientist

  • A new study has found that domestic felines don't seem to understand cause and effect connections between objects.

Women With Male DNA All Female - ABC News

  • Atwood is not a freak -- nor is she half-man, half-woman. But her DNA says she's a man. That's because she has male chromosomes, an X and a Y, instead of two Xs, like most females. It's a disorder of sexual development in the womb called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, or AIS. It can be passed down through the mother or occur as a spontaneous mutation.

Male Zimbabwe athlete competed as a female

  • In his defence,
    Sithole told the court that he was born with both female and male organs.
    The athlete added that his parents then consulted a Chipinge traditional
    healer who gave them some herbs following which he assumed female status.


    However, Sithole
    further alleges that they only paid half the money charged for the services
    rendered by the healer. As a punishment by the traditional healer for
    them to pay up the outstanding bill, the male organ only developed recently,
    he said.


    He told the court
    that he was scheduled to settle the bill with the traditional on his
    trial day and this would have resulted in him reverting to the female
    gender.

26 May 09

Minnesota legislative session dealt with beer, ballots, health care, taxes ... - TwinCities.com

  • If you're dying and need marijuana to ease your suffering: Tough luck. The governor vetoed a very narrow medical marijuana bill allowing terminally ill patients to smoke it.
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