Month: April 2010

Violence in Pakistan Kills 38

The lede paragraph from Reuters tells the story best: Suspected Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani checkpost near the U.S. consulate in Peshawar on Monday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 38 people elsewhere in the...

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Chinese Ship Strikes Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef was already under tremendous stress. This won’t help. The Shen Neng 1, hauling more than 65,000 tons of coal, hit the reef at full speed late Saturday in a restricted zone of the marine park. The...

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Serious Question

Okay, so that didn’t work, and it’s impossible to imagine that it will work…ever. So, can we give up now?

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