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Egypt's Jew Haters Deserve Ostracism in the West - WSJ.com Good article here about how even the supposedly liberal part of Egyptian medi...

The kindest cut: How circumcision is the secret weapon in the battle against HIV/Aids - The Independent Here's a long article about the ...

Jamie Oliver to launch own magazine | Media | guardian.co.uk I suppose I didn't mind watching a bit of Jamie Oliver's shows when he ...

Speaking of climate change, I am not the first to note this , but there continues to be a hell of lot of articles in the Australian press la...

North Atlantic cold-water sink returns to life : Nature News Here's the opening paragraph from the above report: Scientists have found e...

The art of the toilet in Japan Yeah, I've gone on enough about the wonderful clever toilets of Japan. That's not why I've linke...

How to calm binge drinkers: get them all blowing bubbles In England, a novel idea in babysitting. (Sorry, make that policing ): Drinkers wi...

Faroe islanders told to stop eating 'toxic' whales - New Scientist The Faroe Islands got a mention here earlier this year, when Fo...

Saturday night from 10pm has been the dead zone of Australian television since about, I don't know, the invention of television. Having ...

IR reforms asking for trouble | The Australian Finally, Paul Kelly finds something about which to actually criticise the Rudd government. (...

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Can't we hold torturers accountable and still find out the truth? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine By the sounds of this article, a...

Being allergic as I am to all Australian movies, it seems a fair assumption that "Australia" would cause a breakout of hives even ...

Analysis: a new tactic by Islamist militants - Times Online Some early analysis here, which also discusses more broadly the range of terrori...

Sex education: why the British should go Dutch - Times Online Well, if all of this article is correct, the famous Dutch openness in sex educ...

Obama's threat to Catholic hospitals and their very serious counterthreat. - Slate Magazine Here's a good article on the issue of Ob...

Janet Albrechtsen has been to Israel (as a guest of the government and a Jewish group), and writes on a topic mentioned here many times b...

It's amazing the extent of bad news that Africa is generating at the moment. The current "highlights" include: 1. Zimba...

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Marine life faces 'acid threat' Man-made pollution is raising ocean acidity at least 10 times...

Robert Fisk: Once more fear stalks the streets of Kandahar So, Robert Fisk is reporting from Afghanistan at the moment, noting the misery su...