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...great geneticist slunk back to the U.S. on Friday - his sold-out U.K. tour for his new book called Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science canceled after the apparently racist remarks he made to Britain's Sunday Times Magazine last weekend - it's clear that Watson's latest provocation is not one he'll shrug off lightly. Indeed, Watson, 79, says he is "mortified" by the imbroglio, and apologizes "unreservedly" for the offending comments, in which he suggested black people are not as smart as whites: he told the Sunday Times' Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe that...
...Rugby has long enjoyed a sizable audience in Britain, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand and is developing a growing fan base in Argentina and Italy; the numbers of fans tuning in from such World Cup competitors as Tonga, Fiji, Georgia and the U.S. is tiny by comparison, however, so the 4 billion total means a lot more people from a growing number of nations around the world had to be interested enough to tune...
...Federalists had lost three presidential elections in a row, and Clinton had become convinced that his party had a glass ceiling for non-Virginians (Uncle George having been relegated to the vice presidency by the rise of James Madison). Most important, Federalists opposed the War of 1812 against Britain, since a British naval blockade would ruin their commercial base, and Clinton was against it too. So the Federalists endorsed Clinton when he challenged Madison's bid for re-election...
...faces the prospect of strike action amid claims by the broadcasting union BECTU and the National Union of Journalists that the overhaul will threaten the quality of public broadcasting in Britain. A move to outsource 6,000 jobs in 2005 was met with a one-day stoppage that blacked out several BBC stations...
...Britain playing the role of the Russian bear at the other end of the globe? Not exactly. Six other countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway) have also laid claims to sectors of Antarctica; those of Chile and Argentina overlap with the British claim. (The United States recognizes none of them, but reserves the right to make its own claim down the line.) Each of those seven claims include coastline, and every coast presents an opportunity under Article 76 of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: If you can prove that the continental shelf extends...