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Archaeologists excavate mass grave from Thirty Years War
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:04 PM EDT (Canada.com)
Photo gallery showing human remains from the first half of the seventeenth century, discovered during construction in the town of Scharfenberg (Germany; appears to be about halfway between Berlin and Rostock).
Jesus on the shelf at Wal-Mart in toy line tryout
Seeded on Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:54 AM EDT (York Dispatch)
Wal-Mart will be test-marketing a line of action figures with Christian themes, including Jesus, Mary, Samson, and Daniel. The Jesus doll, which talks, retails for about $20.
Dispatch from Blob Fest
Seeded on Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:47 AM EDT (Slate)
A rather patronizing piece on Phoenixville, PA's homegrown annual Blob Fest.
Cell Phone Hackers Use Technology To Stalk, Terrify
Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:42 AM EDT (KIRO TV)
Apparently it's possible -- using viruses -- for someone to take over your phone and use it to spy on you. Extraordinarily creepy.
Religious bonds divide some parents, kids
Seeded on Mon Jul 9, 2007 10:58 PM EDT (USA Today)
Some evidence suggests a trend within families towards children s exhibiting greater religiosity than their parents. This story examines a few examples of this in different traditions.
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
Seeded on Mon Jul 9, 2007 11:54 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Written by a former UK-based jihadi, criticism of the notion that Western foreign policy is responsible for Islamist violence. Fascinating and important.
WITNESS: Japan nuns for a day mix religion and role-play | Reuters
Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 12:15 AM EDT (Reuters)
A Western journalist living in Japan reports on a six-hour "One-Day Nun Experience Workshop" (as Reuters calls it). Interesting for the way it reflects notions about sincerity, practice, and identity.
Eating babies, poisoned bullets? Not so much
Seeded on Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:52 AM EDT (Stars and Stripes)
A Stars and Stripes piece on the bizarre myths that some less-educated Iraqis believe about the American occupiers.
Media ignore Obama's testimony
Seeded on Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:47 PM EDT (GetReligion)
GetReligion's Daniel Pulliam is amazed that so few mainstream media outlets covered the part of Obama's speech before the UCC in which he testified to his personal conversion. Interesting observation.
She's Small, Sometimes Shy — and Totally Divine (Sajani Shakya, 9-year-old Nepalese "goddess")
Seeded on Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:31 AM EDT (NPR)
Profile of Sajani Shakya, a nine-year-old Nepalese girl venerated as a godess (Kumari). Subject of an upcoming documentary by UK director Ishbel Whitaker.
Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media
Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:32 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
I have yet to read the full report, but their statistics-based content analysis would seem to bear out my general impressions. U.S. news media tend to treat religion as a conservative force, but this means leaving out the voices of maybe two-thirds of religious believers.
Apocalyptic Times for the G.O.P. | Joe Conason
Seeded on Sun Jun 3, 2007 9:36 AM EDT (observer.com)
Joe Conason writes in the New York Observer. Evangelical power brokers Dobson and Richard Viguerie are adamant that they will not support a Giuliani nomination.
Iraq troop drawdown in 2008?
Seeded on Sat Jun 2, 2007 10:22 PM EDT (ABC News)
Two versions of Iraq's future are hinted at by Petraeus and Lt. Gen. Odierno. Both involve prolonging the current surge and then beginning a drawdown of troops sometime in 2008.
Vampire hunters drove stake through Milosevic's heart
Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 5:49 PM EDT (Ananova)
Hard to know what to make of this. A little out of date -- the story was originally published sometime in early March of 2007.
Iraq: The Question (Rory Stewart Q&A session)
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 1:15 AM EDT (New York Review of Books)
Rory Stewart, an experienced British development worker, served in the coalition provincial administration of Iraq for a time. Here is his perspective on the state of affairs there.
More Hadithas are likely with stressed military | Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 10:55 PM EDT (The Baltimore Sun)
Tucker argues: as the Iraq war drags on into its fifth year, one of the emerging side effects of trying to do the job with a Rumsfeld-style "leaner" military is that there simply aren't enough troops on the ground to do real counterinsurgency work as Petraeus defines it.
Testing paranormal prescience?
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2007 12:00 AM EDT (the Mail online)
A rather breathless summary of recent experiments that purport to show that we humans receive small bits of information about -- or, rather, from -- the future. Sounds like B.S. to me, but the experiments do sound sort of compelling.
DenverPost.com - Jeffco's fight against free expression
Seeded on Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:48 AM EDT (The Denver Post)
More on the Jefferson County, Colo., "flag flap." A columnist provides a little history on local school officials' willingness to muzzle potentially upsetting speech in an educational context.
Littleton school expels foreign flags from gym; principal worried display might violate state law
Seeded on Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:48 PM EDT (CNET News.com)
After Eric Hamlin's case hit the papers -- that's the next story down -- a middle school principal decides to remove a display in her school gym that's been there since 2003. The display consists of thirty flags representing the nationalities of the students in the school.
Flags get classroom green light, but Jeffco teacher says he's not sure he wants to return
Seeded on Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:04 PM EDT (CNET News.com)
This past Wednesday (8/23/2006), a middle-school geography teacher in Lakewood, Colo., was suspended from his post because he had flown foreign flags in his classroom (a public building), which allegedly violates Colorado state law.
Most people, if given the chance, will cheat; most will also condemn cheating in others
Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:46 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Psychological studies show that most people are both (1) willing to cheat or act dishonestly and (2) often unable to recognize that they've done so, even if they would condemn the same behavior in others.
Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy - Great movie, pity about the Big Lie
Seeded on Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:30 PM EDT (atimes.com)
A piece from the inimitable Asia Times Online on the stubbornness of the belief that Iraq was somehow involved in 9-11 and that therefore we can "fight them over there instead of fighting them at home."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Water shortage 'a global problem'
Seeded on Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:59 PM EDT (BBC News)
As if we didn't all have enough to worry about ... an international agency warns that water shortages will soon become an endemic problem for all countries, rich as well as poor.
Asia Times Online :: Inside the anti-US resistance (7/8/2006)
Seeded on Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:40 PM EDT (atimes.com)
A somewhat ominous-sounding report from a reporter from the Asia Times Online, on the ground in central Asia.
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs): U.S. bank program may create secret report on you (Page 1 of 4)
Seeded on Sat Jul 8, 2006 8:45 AM EDT (Bankrate.com)
A report from Bankrate.com on the ramifications of the so-called "Suspicious Activity Report" (SAR) program, a set of guidelines connected with the PATRIOT act under which "suspicious" bank transactions must be reported to the the Dept. of Homeland Security.
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