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"[The pope has] named five people to head a commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank's activities and legal status. Two of them are Americans: Monsignor Peter Wells, the No. 3 official in the Vatican secretariat of state, and Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard...

ars.to UK site blocked to prevent employees from accidentally accessing still-classified docs.

"...the filter of classified information on public websites was "Armywide" and did not originate at the Presidio. Presidio employees described how they could access the U.S. site, guardiannews .com, but were blocked from articles, such as those about...

contagious http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829234.300 www.newscientist.com Recent riots in places like Brazil and Turkey behave like a contagious disease – and conditions are perfect for their spread

"Like other demonstrators, he had brought some vinegar. The idea is that breathing through a cloth soaked in vinegar neutralizes the effects of tear gas, though this doesn’t really seem to work. The police claim that the product can be used to make bombs,...

discovermagazine.com Crusading mycologist Paul Stamets says fungi can clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.

www.detroitnews.com The former president of a Georgia company that filed more than 1 million forged foreclosure documents in Michigan and other states was sentenced to five years in federal prison Tuesday.

"The United States must immediately call in all of the unpayable debt on the part of the big London and continental European banks, and put the onus of the bankruptcy on the heads of the very people who were planning this drive for fascism. ... If you...