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...issue of Science demonstrates that's hardly the case. "Essentially what we found was that...if you remove whales, it has a negligible impact on the biomass that is commercially available for fishing," says Leah Gerber, a conservation biologist at Arizona State University and the article's lead author. Translation: killing whales won't resuscitate depleted fisheries. (Read "Why the Stamford Chimp Attacked...
...link the MMR vaccine with autism, yet the scientific community has already widely dismissed the claim that the vaccine causes autism. The original connection between the vaccine and autism was raised in a paper published in the British journal, The Lancet. After it was discovered, however, that the main author of the study had received funding from British trial lawyers seeking the evidence he eventually produced, 10 of the paper’s 12 co-authors redacted their contributions, and the scientific community as a whole discredited the study. As such, it is unreasonable for parents to continue to blame...
...student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany as the Baader-Meinhof gang), went on a killing spree in a fight against the establishment. "This is the story of our generation," says Stefan Aust, former editor of news magazine Der Spiegel and author of the book upon which film is based...
...involved in every detail. While writing Baader Meinhof, Eichinger spent months researching the gang, reading original transcripts of interrogations and court proceedings as well as coded messages written by imprisoned members to their supporters outside. Much of the material comes from Aust's book and the original documents the author turned up in his own research. "In addition to the book, [Eichinger] read a lot of other material and kept asking people to get him more," says Aust...
Last year's gripping campaign and the wave of popularity behind Barack Obama have focused tremendous attention on the White House and the presidency. As the country marks Presidents Day, TIME spoke with author and historian Richard Norton Smith about America's "schizoid" relationship with its President, the lofty expectations for Obama and the way history's verdicts can shift over time. (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...