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Safety of In-Flight Cell Phone Use
Airlines are currently preparing to allow use of cell phones for in-flight calling. A Carnegie-Mellon study raises interesting questions about potential interference with critical avionics.
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at 10:09 AM on March 14, 2006
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The Bible as sentencing device
If the Constitution sanctions such direct reliance on religious sources when imposing criminal sentences, then there is nothing to stop prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers from regularly citing religious sources like the Bible, the Talmud, or the Koran to justify their respective positions on punishment.
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at 4:25 PM on March 28, 2005
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The search for Alfred E. Neuman
Carl Djerassi emigrated to the US after Hitler's annexation of Austria, and in his essay traces the gap-toothed Mad Magazine spokesman from his original sighting on a German anti-semitic propaganda poster (PDF).
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at 12:43 PM on February 1, 2005
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Donations appreciated...
"The male species is doomed, says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University. And a woman-only world is possible."
More
here, and
here.
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at 6:26 PM on December 13, 2004
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