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If the powers that be had realized the global implications of the Internet when it was invented, they probably would have found some way to kill it. Take a look at these early pages and the very first World Wide Web site. Then take a look at this CNN footage of the intrepid Ben Wedeman in Benghazi. In just [...]

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As a child, I learned how to duck and cover in case of a nuclear attack. My mother told me not to run with scissors, lest I “put out” my eyes. And instructional films, similar to this one, warned me not to walk off with strangers. Why these strangers were coming around in the first place, or [...]

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Love calls, like the wild birds It’s another day A spring wind blew My list of things to do away “Spring Wind” by singer/songwriter Greg Brown ~ ~ ~ We now know love is little more than a chemical imbalance. (Thanks a lot for the buzzkill, science.) Which explains the crazy behavior observed among those afflicted. [...]

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Give him some credit. Give her some credit. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, Arizona, has made so much progress in a Houston rehabilitation center that her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, decided to leave his wife’s side and join his crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to launch in April. [...]

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You may think you’ve seen this movie before. Just two summers ago, in fact, in Iran. Never say never, but I’m saying never. You’ve never seen anything like what is unfolding today in Egypt. Just when it seemed humankind was doomed (pick your poison: pandemic, climate change, famine, drought, nuclear war) up pop Tunisia and Egypt. [...]

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