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Science – Can science illuminate the answers? A star-studded panel of scientists gathered to discuss those heady themes at the World Science Festival in New York City. Here are their answers in convenient nutshell form.
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News – Police in eastern France say at least five people have been killed after a train crashed into a bus carrying schoolchildren.
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Religion – The independent woman has been dubbed the Freemale because she prefers her freedom to the demands of a family. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that eight per cent of women aged between 25 to 44 now live alone.
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Politics – With senator Barack Obama poised this week to clinch his party's nomination for President, there are growing fears in some quarters that the Democratic party may not be choosing its strongest candidate to beat Republican John McCain.
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Do No Evil – When Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a world record at 100 meters Saturday night, two questions became urgent: Was the supporting tailwind legal? Was Bolt himself legal?
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Art & Design – Poems by Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos.
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Celebrities – She was out with the girls shopping at Cross Creek in Malibu on Friday
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Humor – Round one, FIGHT
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Religion – A hindu religious leader and scholar with South African links has made history in the US by being appointed as the University of Southern California's dean of religious life a post historically filled by ordained Christians.
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Religion – S Sikhs have accused the Golf Digest of slandering their religion by doctoring an image of their fifth guru in an article in the May issue of the magazine. The image with the article titled "The Golf Guru" is purportedly of an expert answering readers' questions but is in fact a picture of Guru Arjan Dev with a golf club in the left hand
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Do-It-Yourself – Tribal tattoos have been practiced for thousands of years. Modern people still get them done for many reasons such as to belong to a modern 'tribe' even if they do it on a subconscious level. Getting tattooed was also seen as a rite of passage into adulthood.
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News – 1883: The world's first elevated electric railway in the world makes a trial run. It's in Chicago, of course. It's indoors, and it won't last, but the idea will.
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Careers & Jobs – The government says there are plenty of jobs -- just low-paying ones Cubans won't take. Even educated professionals would rather work in the tourist industry as waiters or taxi drivers, which earn far more money than state jobs that usually offer about $10 a month.
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Popular Videos – At a time when pundits and politicians of all stripes endorse securing the border between the United States and Mexico, reason.tv travels south to see what's really going on - and what the human and monetary costs are of amping up border patrols.
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Science – Scientists overseeing NASA's new Mars spacecraft say the lander's robotic arm has touched soil on the red planet for the first time. The scientists said Sunday that the arm reached out the day before and left an impression that resembles a footprint.
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