Unlike the oil-fueled Frankenstein that is the modern
state of Iraq, the ancient empire of Babylonia and its capital city of
Babylon, famed for its incomparable hanging gardens and hated by right-thinking
Rastas
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March 14, 2006 – Robert G. Webster is one of the few
bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the
avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 (AP) – Google Inc.’s concerns that a Bush administration
demand to examine millions of its users’ Internet search requests would
violate privacy rights are unwarranted, the Justice Department said Friday
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The officials tried to assure the panel that the deal has been subject
to a careful, three-month review and that all security questions were
satisfied. They said no one raised an issue that would have prompted
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BAGHDAD,
Iraq, Feb. 22 – A powerful bomb shattered the golden dome at one of Iraq’s
most revered Shiite shrines on Wednesday morning, setting off a day of
sectarian fury in which mobs formed [...]
On February 16, 2006, the reformist Internet daily Rooz (www.roozonline.com)
reported for the first time that extremist clerics from Qom had issued
what the daily called "a new fatwa," which states that "the
shari’a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that
he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority
that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I.
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No, not another gross photo of the Dowbrigade caught in the maw of
a major metropolitan hospital. This is
much more serious and significant. Now, it is hard to shock the
Dowbrigade, and after [...]
The New Bedford teenager wanted in last week’s attack in a gay bar
gunned down a small-town police officer in Arkansas yesterday, led authorities
on a highway chase, fatally shot a female passenger in his car, and then
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Syrian
demonstrators protest outside the burning Danish embassy in Damascus
February 4. Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy
on fire on Saturday to protest the printingof
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Biosafety lab in South End gets final OK
BU may start construction this month
The
federal government gave final approval yesterday to Boston University’s
plan to build a high-security research
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