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As predicted here
yesterday, my car really only needs
minor work to pass the Mass State inspection. Tony checked it our and
says I can get by with two tie rods, [...]

Eugene Volokh has just started teaching his Free Speech law class at UCLA. It sounds like a doozy. In the first two classes he is covering incitement law, the Brandenburg v. Ohio test, speech that advocates opposition to war, or encourages desertion or refusal to obey the draft, the strange case of [...]

Mother Nature took a supersoaker to the US Open this week.
Nearly every tennis match was washed out Monday through Wednesday. By
Thursday, tournament officials were racing to see if enough play could
be [...]

In the last few years, a new kind of British tourist, lured
by cut-rate airlines whose flights can cost as little as $25 or less, has
descended on Prague in unprecedented numbers, apparently with one goal
in mind: to drink [...]

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F.K. in Conway NH has an interesting question for Dr. Knowledge in today’s Boston Globe.  He writes, “Humans can’t fall from much more than one body height without risk of serious injury. How come insects, on the other hand - ants, for example, or spiders or earwigs - can drop from the equivalent of skyscraper heights [...]

[photo from Dutch Inspection Service] Noses reportedly have aphrodisiac
qualities.

Dutch baffled by Nigerian baboon noses
Dutch authorities are trying to track down who left a foul-smelling [...]