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"11 consecutive days of protest against mafia corruption in government"

www.japantimes.co.jp It is one of the most unusual evolutionary ideas ever proposed: humans are amphibious apes who lost their fur, started to walk upright and developed big brains because they took ...

www.motherjones.com Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rails against the "demolition" of a landmark law to combat racial descrimination in voting.

www.takepart.com An American strategist who helped orchestrate the 1988 campaign to oust General Augusto Pinochet remembers the lessons learned and sees them as hopes for today.

"The cash was headed to the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan..." http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Money-Cash-Missing-Airplane-Cargo-JFK-Swissair-FBI-Police-212888061.html www.nbcnewyork.com The FBI is investigating the theft of $1.2 million in $100...

libcom.org Workers at a medical supplies factory in Beijing, China, have taken the owner of the factory hostage. He has been locked in his office for several days, and subject to sleep deprivation techniques. The action was taken following a dispute over...

slashdot.org The powerful, reliable combination of transistors and semiconductors in computer processors could give way to systems built on the way electrons misbehave, all of it contained in circuits that warp even the most basic rules of physics.

'pineapple season' http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/the-great-japanese-gang-wars.html www.thedailybeast.com The season for pineapples (yakuza slang for hand grenades) may finally be over. Jake Adelstein on the bloody, seven-year battle...

“I would say that roughly 90 percent of the credit card lawsuits are flawed and can’t prove the person owes the debt,” said Noach Dear, a civil court judge in Brooklyn, who said he presided over as many as 100 such cases a day." http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/problems-riddle-moves-to-collect-credit-card-debt/ dealbook.nytimes.com Judges...