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POPSThe dinosaurs of Washington, D.C. You probably thought this was a clip about politics, didn't you? Well, no. Scientists have found evidence that the capital area had a rich and diverse dinosaur (and prehistoric mammal) population during the Cretaceous.
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POPSMusharraf's speech defending martial law You probably know that Musharraf declared martial law on Nov. 2 against the strongly expressed wishes of U.S. and other Western diplomats. The irony is that he claims (quite plausibly, in my view, but I don't know that much about it) to be doing it in order to prevent Pakistan being overrun by violent Islamist agitators, which would be a disaster of unfathomable proportions for the GWOT and U.S. policy generally (not to mention India and Afghanistan). I'm mystified about what the U.S. really wants Musharraf to do.
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POPSDeath by elephant poop Did a misguided attempt to administer an enema to a constipated elephant really result in the suffocation death of an overzealous zookeeper? If you're wondering why I clipped this, see here .
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POPSWorld religion news, collected in one place [P] A big mashed-up feed I built at MySyndicaat.com. Please suggest additional newsfeeds in the comments. This one includes major newspapers, several key blogs, Religioscope, Religious Diversity News (from Harvard), plus a few others -- but I'm sure I'm missing a lot.
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POPSA struggle for the heart of Islam? Sunni vs. Shiite tension heats up Fareed Zakaria remarks that al-Qaeda began as a pan-Islamic organization and has increasingly turned into an anti-Shiite one. He compares this internal conflict to the extraordinarily bloody struggles that decimated Europe following the Protestant Reformation. I'm a little skeptical ... but it's an interesting comparison.
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POPSZoho bridges desktop and web apps - TechCrunch This is big news: Zoho is introducing plugins for MS Office apps which will allow you to save directly to the Web from inside Word or Excel. If this really works, I will be ditching Google Docs. I just wish it were possible to do the same thing with Backpack.
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POPSRepent of republican alliance Speaking Out Good News for Democrats, Good News for Evangelicals And Good News for the world. George G. Hunter III | posted 11/08/2006 10:49AM
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POPSThe God That Never Failed (Book Review) Interesting review of Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction , David Kuo's wide-eyed, first-hand disillusionment with the Bush Administration's cynical exploitation of faith-based initiatives for political purposes.
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POPSA Venezuelan al-Jazeera? Actually, Telesur, being state-owned, is nothing like al-Jazeera, which is one of the only non-state-owned broadcasters in its market... but they are frequently perceived to share a broadly anti-U.S. orientation. Prediction: expect the rift between American and non-American perceptions of events to widen.
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