February 2012
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January 2010
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USA calling it quits on the War on Drugs →
“The “war”, declared unilaterally throughout the world by Richard Nixon in 1969, is expiring as its strategists start discarding plans that have proved futile over four decades…Prospects in the new decade are thus opening up for vast amounts of useless government expenditure being reassigned to the treatment of addicts instead of their capture and imprisonment.” -...
Man sues airway for sexual discrimination. →
“A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don’t know - even if the child’s parents are on the same flight.”
I hope he wins… I can’t believe discrimination against men has gone this far. How come it’s just men who can’t sit next to children?, how about adult female strangers...
People build insanely cool houses →
People surf crazy waves →
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People transplants tracheas →
A Belgian woman has a working windpipe after surgeons implanted the trachea from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new blood vessels before being transplanted into her throat.
People build cool bridges. →
People have awesome costume ideas →
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People breed pygmy and nigerian dwarf goats. →
Montessori kids make giant origami cranes. →
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