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On Feb. 2, the prominent British medical journal The Lancet retracted a widely cited 1998 research paper that suggested that vaccines could cause autism in children. The paper, authored by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, garnered significant attention for its assertion that the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might be unsafe. British...
Conflicts like the one in Niyamgiri are becoming increasingly common in India, as the country tries to extract and exploit the mineral wealth in its forests and mountains. India allows state governments to appropriate land for use by private companies provided the people displaced are compensated and resettled. People living...
Surfers speak of Mavericks with awe and dread. The surf break was discovered in the 1970s, when a few intrepid teenage surfers from Half Moon Bay, led by Jeff Clark, thought it might be possible to ride the giant waves without ending up on the rocks. They survived. "It isn...
The prize, which was established in 1996, is given to individuals who have made “prize worthy contribution[s]” that are “original and influenial.”
It's not for lack of trying. Female ski jumpers have petitioned to join every Winter Olympics since Nagano in 1998, and each time they have been denied by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). In fact, ski jumping is the only Olympic discipline to remain men-only. (Technically, Nordic combined...