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...Paul Harvey riddle: "What is greater than God, more evil than the devil? The poor have it, the rich don't need it. And if you eat it, you'll die." There is no evidence that Harvey ever read this on the air, but it's just the kind of whimsical poser that, because his name was attached to it, attracted a zillion Googlers. He sold concepts too. (Answer to the riddle: nothing...
...wave of cutbacks and closings that have hit the American media could make that all but impossible. Referees need to know the game cold, and climate change demands day-in, day-out experience from dedicated reporters. But a dwindling few media outlets are willing to pay for that kind of coverage at a time when the economy is crashing - Time's corporate cousin CNN has eliminated its entire full-time science section...
...vegetarian cheese-lovers on campus were apparently concerned about whether dining hall cheeses contain rennet—extract of animal stomach membrane used to curdle milk—and posed the question to Harvard’s Food Literacy Project [http://www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/about.html]. In response, HUDS recently reviewed every kind of cheese used in the dining halls, leaving no slice or shred unturned. The verdict? All cheeses are innocent except for one—the sliced American...
...made certain to emphasize that he had no contact with Hamas, and demanded that the militants stop firing rockets into Israel. Still, Kerry's visit - one of the first to the coastal strip by an American legislator since Hamas took power there in 2007 - wasn't exactly the kind of publicity that Israeli officials wanted. While being escorted into Gaza by an armed United Nations convoy, Kerry was disturbed by the sight of Israeli security forces blocking trucks filled with pasta from entering the beleaguered territory. Pasta, the Senator was told by U.N. officials, wasn't defined by Israel...
...When the people's representatives are barred from entering assemblies then what kind of democracy or justice can you expect?" - Ali Asghar Manda, a member of the PML, International Herald Tribune...