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Syrian War, Economic Hardship Drive Religious Minorities From Turkish Border City Posted: 03/13/2014 ANTAKYA, Turkey — Azur Havre stands over a lunch of steaming meatballs in a courtyard owned by Sister Barbara Kallash, a quirky German nun who runs a guesthouse in this city roughly 10 miles from Syria’s border. He puts on a white yarmulke…
Colorado collects $2m in recreational marijuana taxes AP | Mar 11, 2014 Colorado legalized pot in 2012, but the commercial sale of marijuana didn’t begin until January. Washington state sales begin in coming months. DENVER: Colorado made roughly $2 million inmarijuana taxes in January, state revenue officials reported Monday in the world’s first accounting of the recreational…
A knowledgeable correspondent submitted these observations: RE: Russian Army. Effective draft evasion is running 80%. Morale is low, training is very poor and poorly funded. The Russian army has also gone through 22 years of near continuous contraction. And this standing army has heavy commitments in the Caucasus and Far East Siberia. Moreover,…
SCIENTIFIC METHOD / SCIENCE & EXPLORATION Science inches closer to real BioShock-style plasmids No, not Electro Bolt. But human genetic augmentation is a lot closer than you think. by Michael Westgarth Feb 12 2014 In 1953, molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick released what would be one of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the modern age. The publication…
Clovis tools Clovis stone technology was highly sophisticated Present-day Native Americans are descended from some of the continent’s earliest settlers, a genetic study suggests. Scientists sequenced the genome of a one-year-old boy who died in what is now Montana about 12,500 years ago. Some researchers have raised questions about the origins of early Americans, with…
The $51 billion cost of the Sochi Games, most expensive Winter Olympics in history, and alleged corruption are evidence of endemic problems. The stadiums are all located along the coast overlooking the Black Sea This is the biggest construction project since the fall of the Soviet Union, on a par with the trans-Siberian railway…
The FDA has banned 23andMe from selling its personal genetic testing kits. But consumers should know the truth about themselves—and so policymakers should set the company free. One would think in an age where everyone is required to have health insurance that we’d want to get the best information about our health as possible. Then,…