Charles Dews 's items
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Rethinking Relativity: Is Time Out of Joint? (Rachel Courtland)
Read more...From New Scientist Ever since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse, evidence for Einstein's theory of general relativity has only become stronger. Could it now be that starlight from distant galaxies is illuminating cracks in the theory's foundation? Everything from the concept of the black hole to GPS ti ...
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Gentle Ardi Pre-Dates Lucy by a Million Years (Rob Waters)
Read more...From Bloomberg.com Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The 4.4 million-year-old skeleton nicknamed “Ardi” by scientists who found her remains in Ethiopia show the earliest known ancestor of humans was a lot more l ...
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Police Attack Protesters at G20 (Joe Kishore -- World Socialist Web Site)
Read more...Sept. 26, 2009 -- (World Socialist Web Site) -- Police have carried out a brutal crackdown on demonstrators at the G20 summit meeting in Pittsburgh over the past two days. The virtual lockdown of the ...
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Why I Love Al-Jazeera (Robert D. Kaplan)
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The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism. From The Atlantic Has anyone watched the English-language versi ...
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Man Vs. God (Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong)
Read more...From the Wall Street Journal We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here ...
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9/11: Watershed for US Imperial Intentions (Patrick Martin -- World Socialist Web Site)
Read more...11 September 2009 Eight years ago today, on September 11, 2001, some 2,700 people lost their lives in a coordinated act of mass terrorism, in which hijacked jetliners were crashed into the World Trad ...
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Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It´s Going to Get Worse (Tony Pugh -- McClatchy Newspapers)
Read more...Homeless man in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: karpov the wrecked train / Flickr) Sept. 10, 2009 -- WASHINGTON (McClatchy Newspapers) -- The early impact of the worst recession since the 1930s pushed med ...
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Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It´s Going to Get Worse (Tony Pugh--Mcclatchy Newspapers)
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http://www.truthout.org/091109C?n Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It's Going to Get Worse Thursday 10 September 2009 by: Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers Homeless man in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: ...
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A Skull That Rewrites the History of Humankind (Steve Connor)
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From The Independent It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia... By Steve Connor, Science Editor Wednesday, 9 September 2009 ...
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Cubans, U.S. Veterans Have Health Care in Common: Book Review (Jeffrey Tannenbaum)
Read more...T.R. Reid Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The world offers at least two pure systems of “socialized medicine,” the state-run variety that many Americans with private insurance assume they’d hate. Cuba has one ...
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How Much Freedom Can One Man Stand? (Joe Bageant)
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Not much more, dear hearts, not much more Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 22, 2009 -- Freedom comes in many forms in America, and new forms are constantly being created. The latest has been free ...
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