Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg, 01.08.2009
We are accustomed to thinking of censorship purely as a human rights issue, but for information providers and technology companies, censorship acts as a trade barrier.
Allison Kilkenny, 01.01.2009
So-called "rational adults" argue that smart bombs are exactly the same as the precision guaranteed between a doctor's steady hand, a blade, and a patient's flesh.
Steve Parker, 12.31.2008
Happy New Year!
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Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte, 01.05.2009
Data from the last time Earth experienced a large, abrupt climate warming, around 20,000 years ago, indicate that a slight change in Earth's orbit caused an initial warming.
David Flumenbaum, 08.14.2008
Not only was He Kexin, the Chinese gymnast in question, born in 1994 and ineligible to compete in the Olympics, but Chinese officials, over the last few weeks, have tried to cover it all up.
Chris Weigant, 12.26.2008
Love her or hate her, you have to admit that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket this year was without any doubt the boldest political tactic of the year.
J. Carl Ganter, 05.08.2008
The UN estimates that two-thirds of the world's population will live in areas of water stress within the next 20 years. By the numbers, much of that population is in Asia.
Johann Hari, 12.22.2008
In his book The Post-American World, Zakaria examines what the planet will look like as America becomes only one strong power-player among many.
Alexander Davenport, 01.07.2009
Faced with unemployment in expensive, unwelcoming urban environments, many migrants are getting an early start to their annual ritual of heading back to their home provinces for New Year.
Hongmei Li, 08.04.2008
The contradictions in the way Chinese women are portrayed for the Olympics symbolizes the confusion and complexities of what Chinese femininity means in a globalizing world.
Michelle Kraus, 01.01.2009
The legacy of Bush and Cheney are inextricably tied to the survival of the old fossil fuel economy. Their assignment was clear: defend and protect at ...
Jane Hamsher, 11.19.2008
All the Shock Doctrine fanatics cheering to drive the the Big 3 into bankruptcy "restructuring," like Mitt Romney, might want to think about the implications of this.
Disgrasian, 08.12.2008
Gymnasts have it tough in the hair department. Their first priority is to keep that shit out of their faces in order to do all of those crazy circus moves. Hence, the gymnasty hair trends that won't die.
J. Carl Ganter, 09.14.2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- By strange turn of fate or my wife's careful selection, almost every film we saw this summer at the Traverse City Film Festiva...
Johann Hari, 11.15.2008
To achieve the green goal of dealing with overpopulation, it's necessary to mix some oestrogen into the environmentalist palette.
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Pandas are solitary animals and they don't really want to be
with human beings - especially stupid ones.
Natural selection was thwarted by the intervening zoo keepers.
Good for the Panda!!!
Couldn't agree with you more. (from another nurse...)
Maybe he was iron deficient. Do pandas get pica?
Serves him right.
The zoos in China are an absolute joke,people throw food/objects and all kinds of other crap at the animals,people jump the barriers all the time to try and pat animals.
So there's nothing surprising about this.