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Textbook disclaimer stickers
For example:
(Note: Taken verbatim from the sticker designed by the Cobb County School District in Georgia.) This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
…and…
This book was [...]
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Chocolate lip balm, all natural ingredients
I’m still stunned by the perfume so this doesn’t seem so bad, heh.
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Chocolate… perfume?!
I like chocolate kind of a lot, but I think I can say I don’t quite like it that much. :-)
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A lot of readers have e-mailed me, and asked why I haven’t talked more about politics this election season. It’s mostly a time issue, but the real reason is, there are other sites out there that say the very same things I want to say, and they say them better than I do. As I [...]
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Juan Cole: Informed Comment
Excerpt:
The Bush administration is full of revolutionaries. They are shaking up the world by military force. They are playing a role familiar in modern history, pioneered by Napoleon Bonaparte, of using overwhelming military superiority to establish new forms of hegemony by appealing to desires for change among neighboring publics. Bonaparte promised the [...]
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After sleeping on it, I find I’m not quite as inclined to imagine that OBL’s tape was a conscious effort to swing the election for Bush. It doesn’t seem to me that he understands us quite that well, and it doesn’t seem to me that I understand him well enough to be that certain of [...]
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Yesterday I found myself listening, on my car radio, to someone from Nader’s campaign. This person was attempting to refute the various criticisms we’ve all heard so many times. It made me feel as though someone was trying to work their well-chewed gum ever deeper into my ears, and reminded me all too thoroughly of [...]
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Rocky Mountain News: Columnists
In one truly bizarre finding, the research found that 57 percent of Bush supporters assume that the majority of the world favors his re-election. According to recent international research in 10 countries, reported in the British newspaper The Guardian on Oct. 15, the world has “made up its mind, backing (Kerry) by [...]
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Slashdot | Physicists Finally Solve the Falling-Paper Problem
neutron_p writes “The so-called “falling paper” problem has long intrigued scientists. James C. Maxwell pondered the tumbling motions of playing cards in 1853. Why don’t flat things fall straight down? Pieces of paper fall down, then rise into the air, then glide along, then again rise… It occurs [...]
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