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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
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Information Diet | Dear Internet: It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works
If Congress is complaining that they don’t know about something that you care about, the right answer isn’t to tell them to go get educated. The right answer is to educate them.
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Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain: Scientific American
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Diamond Weevil’s Rainbow Bling Really Is Diamond | Wired Science | Wired.com
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pandagon.net – Biology isn’t telling anyone to deprive women of access to reproductive control
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Do Private Military Contractors Have Impunity to Torture? | MyFDL
Unbelievably, in 2011 this question has not yet been settled in the courts of the United States. Human rights attorneys are headed back to court in the coming month to argue that, yes, victims of war crimes and torture by contractors should have a path to justice. Attorneys from my organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with co-counsel, are representing Iraqi civilians who were horribly tortured in Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq…
The cases, Al Shimari v. CACI and Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 aim to secure a day in court for the plaintiffs, none of whom were ever charged with any crimes.
The Department of Justice has thus far failed to prosecute any of the contractors involved, so the only path currently available for any accountability is through these human rights lawsuits.
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Nobody Could Have Predicted – NYTimes.com
…the defense people [which] outside the administration make for the inadequate stimulus is very different from the defense the administration makes. Outside defenders argue that Obama got all he could; but administration figures like Jay Carney claim that the reason the stimulus wasn’t bigger was that nobody realized how deep the recession was going to be.
That is, of course, not true…
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