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Yale: The Musical!

Interested in going to Yale? Would you be more interested if some people sang and danced for your pleasure? The school’s admissions department sure seems to hope so, if their “That Why I Chose Yale” recruitment video is any indication.

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LSD returns to Psychotherapeutics

Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, lambasted the countercultural movement for marginalizing a chemical that he asserted had potential benefits as an invaluable supplement to psychotherapy and spiritual practices such as meditation.

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Franken Amendment may be stripped from final bill

Remember Senator Al Franken's amendment to the Defense Bill?

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Franken Amendment may be stripped from final bill

UN inspectors visit once-secret Iranian site

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran's nuclear program. The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent look inside the planned nuclear fuel lab, a former ammunition dump burrowed into the treeless hills south of Tehran and only publicly disclosed last month

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Stop Sending Junk Food to Disaster Victims

The recent disastrous earthquake in Indonesia has prompted a quick humanitarian response from Western countries, raising some key questions: Who decides what kind of emergency food aid is delivered, and should it be healthier? This argument is not new — nutritionists and development workers have been debating it for years — but improved food options are causing it to heat up again. added by: atomiclegion 3 responses

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Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death

“A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of “out of body” experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals. Moments before death, the patients experienced a burst in brain wave activity, with the spikes occurring at the same time before death and at comparable intensity and duration.

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Israeli-Palestinian clashes raise tension in Jerusalem

For the last few days clashes have broken out in Jerusalem near the complex known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram-al-Sharif. “On Monday, minor clashes broke out at the mosque, although tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers attended a blessing ceremony at the Western Wall for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot without major incident

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Another Church Riled by Madonna’s Shock Schtick

It may be time to invest in a bigger bandwagon.

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Another Church Riled by Madonna’s Shock Schtick

Michael Jackson Once Deemed A Threat

The King of Pop was once on the radar of the the E.

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How much rainforest is in your coffee cup?

How much rainforest can one cup of coffee help preserve? For those who buy coffee grown in the traditional manner, under the shade of rainforest trees, the answer is roughly 2.3 square feet per cup. It would be zero for many coffee drinkers because much of the coffee that people drink is not shade-grown coffee; most plantation owners remove native trees and forest to grow coffee

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