His captors put out cigarettes on Haitham Amro’s body.
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YouTube Animation Shows Stars and Planets Kepler Has Found
The orbiting Kepler telescope is all about the numbers. How many stars have planets
Foreign News: Guns for the Huns
One of the unusual features of British public life today is the amount of anti-German feeling now being stirred up. Part of it is political: Nye Bevan and his left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about “Guns for the Huns”—not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany.
The Artist PABLO PICASSO
To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the 20th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure
Kitsch Me, Kate
Love is all Prince William and Kate Middleton need: they’ve asked that charitable donations be made in lieu of gifts. But that doesn’t mean the rest of town isn’t cashing in
The Navy Says ‘I Do’ to Same-Sex Marriages
Last Monday, the Navy was the hero across America, for the exploits of its SEALs in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. This Monday, the sea service was zero in certain quarters for saying it will permit same-sex marriages within its hallowed chapels
Education: BEST CATHOLIC COLLEGES
AT their classical best. Catholic colleges and universities are bountiful providers of sound lawyers, doctors, civil servants, teachers.
It’s Not Just Genetics
Safety Community Environment Education Race Income Diet Neighborhood Poverty You’re a native-American baby born into the Oglala Sioux tribe, living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Religion: Is God in Our Genes?
It’s not hard to see the divinity behind the water temples that dot the rice terraces of Bali.
Toxic Environment
They’re in the toys children play with, on the foods they eat and in the air they breathe. Each year, about 27 trillion lb