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important PDF documents: US torture and the medical evidence; rape in war; effect of current interrogation techniques

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From Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked readers to write about what was going on in their lives economically. He received over 600 responses and it seems the middle class is not doing well.

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McCain made a terrible joke that newspapers would not print. It should let all women know where he stands on gender issues: " "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

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In Norway, a mountain vault contains many seeds to feed the world in case of a major catastrophe; many nations contribute money and seed.

www.portfolio.com/...seed_bank - Preview

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Official 2008 Bilderberg Participant List--check out who is going to this meeting of world power elites, fascinating to read through; they really do all get together

www.infowars.com/?p=2564 - Preview

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CO2 emissions may be causing an increase in plant growth, making environmental and global warming debate more complex.

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a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that's not theirs

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"The US is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees."

www.guardian.co.uk/...usa.humanrights - Preview

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Makes use of artificial veins and arteries in coronary bypass grafts by combining man-made materials with human cells to make new blood vessel elastic and durable and able to attach to host tissue.

www.sciencedaily.com/...080603092417.htm - Preview

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part of a whole special issue on music and science; this essay takes up some things I had not thought of before, although some seem obvious when you thing about them; of use for media production

www.newscientist.com/...great-auditory-illusions-.html - Preview

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Scientists can clone cells from tissues taken from dead people who donated their bodies for medical research. Much of it is frozen stored tissue, and cells can be viable for up to thirty years. UK, not US.

www.timesonline.co.uk/...article4040290.ece - Preview

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major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.

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Culture, mind reading, tool use, morality, emotions, personality

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Perhaps more forms of life beneath the surface than above it ... different and effective ways of surviving – ways that could be independent of light and oxygen. These forms of life could exist on other planets.

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law blog with news and legal opinions on activism against torture, especially by US; links

blogs.law.harvard.edu/stoptorture - Preview

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Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.

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extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date

www.newsnow.co.uk/...Torture - Preview

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key news story: starting in spring 02, top admin. officials, including Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft, Rice, met as a group and discussed all interrogation techniques in detail, including demos from CIA.

www.washingtonpost.com/...BL2008041002069.html - Preview

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progressive think tank, one of the few leftist ones in the US, with articles on many aspects of international politics

www.fpif.org/ - Preview

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liberal reproductive and embryo legislation; I am not sure about saviour siblings, having a baby for sake of surgically saving another child; embryo ok, but more than that? a heavy existential burden for all

www.guardian.co.uk/...health.health - Preview

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