Sad to say, Americans have become so used to politicians lying that fact checkers now classify claims based on the level of deception involved. We not only expect our leaders to lie to us, but we cheer when their lies match our beliefs and boo when they don’t. The long ago hope that the Internet […]
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Anara was a teenage Kyrgyz girl with ambitions of a college education and a career of her own. She would have been the first in her family to pursue higher education, and one of the first in her rural Kyrgyz town. Just weeks after her 17th birthday, her close friend asked her to come along
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The convenience of turning on the faucet and receiving safe, clean drinking is too often taken for granted. Many are so accustomed to the act that it would be gravely unsettling, at best, to find their water tainted with hazardous chemicals. That nightmare scenario occurred when tap water in Charleston, West Virginia ran pink and
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Due to an amusing oversight on the part of an enterprising tour guide, a growing population of Rhesus macaques now resides in Silver Springs, Florida. It’s rumored that the original group of Floridian monkeys escaped from the set of a Tarzan movie being filmed in Florida, but in reality they were imported in 1938 by
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The Future? How do you defeat an enemy who looks into the barrel of your gun and sees his paradise? –Anonymous The Chechnya situation encompasses a centuries-old compilation of vastly intertwined conflicts, further perpetuated by extreme biased and outdated grudges. Conflicts steeped in a clash of ideals so old and compounding that realistically, finding an
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For those unfamiliar with the show, to better read this article, this is the way The Voice works: A singer comes out onto a stage, and the four Voice coaches have their chair backs to the singer. The singer has 90 seconds to give the coaches a reason to turn their chairs. Once one coach
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