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Rodney King Autopsy Report: PCP, Coke, Weed, Booze

  According to Rodney King’s  Autopsy report he was under the influence of SEVERAL substances at the time of his death — including alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and PCP. According to the report, the cause of death is listed as accidental drowning — but the drugs were contributing factors. The PCP is interesting because there was a theory […]

Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson

The war he had helped launch and justify raged on, the enemy’s army had swept through his state capital only hours before and his successor as Virginia’s Governor still hadn’t been selected by the legislature, but Thomas Jefferson was going home, convinced that his work for America was done. It was the summer of 1781, five years since the July in Philadelphia when the author of the Declaration of Independence had, in two inspired weeks of writing energized by years of thought and study and practical political activity, helped create a new nation with his pen

Mireille Guiliano: Why French Women Don’t Get Fired

In her two previous books, French author Mireille Guiliano instructs women on how to live their lives to the fullest by, ironically enough, not eating to the fullest. She insists that the French have the right answers, pointing to the French joie de vivre as one of the reasons why the country’s women stay so infuriatingly thin.

‘Sea turtles’ powering China’s Internet growth

“China is not on the Internet, it’s basically an intranet. Everything is banned by the Great Firewall,” says Sherman So, co-author of “Red Wired: China’s Internet Revolution.” With 338 million Internet users in June 2009, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China is no longer a niche market of the online industry.