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Copenhagen protest turns violent, hundreds arrested

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

COPENHAGEN, December 12th–Anarchists launched cobblestones, explosives and homemade weapons during an an otherwise peaceful protest at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen. The crowd, a reported 50,000 including young children, moved without violence until an unidentified anarchist group of several hundred–most covering their faces with ski masks and hoods–began to converge, shooting explosives at nearby buildings and police

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Why (most) women like to shop

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How we buy jeans may depend on our gender, according to research that examines shopping behavior through an evolutionary lens. Our ancestors didn't shop for holiday gifts, but the way we buy may owe credit to thousands of years of evolution. In a new study, researchers propose that our mall-visiting behaviors harken back to the days when men hunted and women foraged

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Gun-friendly laws sweep South, West

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It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the gun-related bills and put Tennessee at the forefront of a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns

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CIA cuts ties with Blackwater

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The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.

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Google demonstrates quantum algorithm promising superfast search

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Google's Foray into Faster Computing This D-Wave processor may or may not be a quantum computing device added by: poojam 0 comments

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Senate GOP denied on spending filibuster attempt

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The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts.

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Judge grants injunction against Congressional defunding of ACORN.

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A US District Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction against last September's defunding of anti-poverty group ACORN by a vote of Congress. ACORN had filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress's action violated the explicit Constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder — punishments handed out to an isolated individual or group by legislative proceedings rather than through the courts.

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Leaked memo details Guantanamo move to Illinois

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A memo leaked to a conservative Web site suggests it is a matter of time before suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are moved to an Illinois prison. added by: TravG73 3 comments

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Tiger Woods is taking an indefinite leave from professional golf

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The decade according to 9-year-olds

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So much has defined this past decade, but imagine what it would be like if the past 9 years were the only years you had lived through. Yahoo! News editor Allison Louie-Garcia spoke to fourth graders in Orange County, Calif

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