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Money – With gasoline prices topping $3 a gallon again, a number of readers, including Greg in Louisiana, are wondering about a proposed one-day "gas boycott" that has a goal of taking $2.3 billion in oil company profits. Aside from circulating some questionable math, organizers of this event stand exactly zero chance of having an impact on gas p
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Science – Prof Stephen Hawking is planning a space flight. The world's best-known scientist, who is 65 today, told The Daily Telegraph: "This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009."
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Politics – Nuclear Tests Violate International Norm http... letter to the editor by George Bunn, Consulting Professor, Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control TO THE EDITOR: The widespread condemnation of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests is not based, as some have charged, upon racism
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Voted for on December 19, 2006 03:39pm
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News – WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday signed a civilian nuclear deal with India, allowing fuel and know-how to be shipped to the world's largest democracy even though it has not submitted to full international inspections.
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Voted for on December 19, 2006 03:31pm
Science – Current sea level rise projections could be under-estimating the impact of human-induced climate change on the world's oceans, scientists suggest. By plotting global mean surface temperatures against sea level rise, the team found that levels could rise by 59% more than current forecasts.
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Voted for on December 15, 2006 02:21pm
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Religion – There are two faces of modern Christianity today: radical fundamentalists preaching hate and compassionate progressives who want their religion back. Which side will win out?
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Voted for on December 15, 2006 02:20pm
News – Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.
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Voted for on December 03, 2006 02:02pm
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