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Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'
With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...
Tags: Science and Technology, Museum of Natural History, Fossils, Colleges and Universities, Arizona State University
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Circumcision study supports HIV theory
Circumcision is known to reduce a man's risk of HIV infection by at least half, but scientists don't know why. A new study offers support for the theory that removing the foreskin deprives troublesome bacteria of a place to live, leaving the immune system...
Tags: Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Viral Diseases and Infections, Health and Safety at School, AIDS
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Secret tape of McConnell bashing Ashley Judd: Anatomy of a smear
Mother Jones strikes again. The magazine that brought us the “47%” speech that killed off Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy came out Tuesday with a recording of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and some of his aides discussing how to...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Racism, Barack Obama, Politics, The Huffington Post
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Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples
WASHINGTON — While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law. A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts who supports gay marriage has...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Political Fundraising, Justice System, Judges, Human Interest
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Justice for genocide in Guatemala?
GUATEMALA CITY — When a judge ruled to admit all the prosecution documents and expert witnesses in the genocide trial here of Gen. EfraÃn RÃos Montt last week — ensuring that Guatemala will be the first country in history to try one of its own...
Tags: Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Central Intelligence Agency, Hate Crimes
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One bit of Aaron Swartz's legacy: Fixing a bad law?
As predicted, the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the widely admired hacktivist who helped create RSS and Reddit, has provoked at least one lawmaker to seek changes in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA -- the law that federal prosecutors were using to...
Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Trips to the moon for sale soon? Wait and see
It's been exactly 40 years since NASA's last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. This week, the National Research Council released a report that said that the space agency was losing its edge and needed to hone its...
Tags: Science and Technology, Travel, Trips and Vacations, SpaceX, David Lazarus
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Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors
Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...
Tags: Laws, Online Media Industry, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Suicide
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Reddit cofounder Swartz struggled with prosecution before suicide
Aaron Swartz saw a closed world and wanted to crack it open. His suicide by hanging in New York last week has reignited the conflict between the values of property possession and digital openness and intensified debate over the government’s...
Tags: Laws, Health and Safety at School, Punishment, Reed Elsevier, George H.W. Bush
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Bill Nye, the (planetary) science guy, on NASA's future
What should the future of our space program be? The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency. A panel of 12 independent experts concluded, among other things, that...
Tags: Science and Technology, Bill Nye, Astronomy, Science, NASA
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'Django Unchained' was more than a role for Kerry Washington
On screen and off, Kerry Washington is a strong woman with strong convictions. Not only does she play the tough political crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC's highly rated show "Scandal," she also commanded the national stage on the final night of the 2012...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Celebrities, Jamie Foxx
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