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Travel in poetry |
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Rove 'proud' of US waterboarding terror suspects |
torture, USA, waterboarding, War On Terror |
A senior adviser to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks. In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists". |
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New York agrees World Trade Center 9/11 dust payout |
dust, 9/11 |
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Weymouth ridgeway skeletons 'Scandinavian Vikings' |
Viking, mass grave, UK |
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YouTube - India Pakistan Wagah Attari Border Closing Ceremony (By Sanjeev Bhaskar - The Longest Road). |
India, Pakistan, border, ritual, military |
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Flattr |
micropayment, Internet, sharing, reward, money |
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Pirate boss to make the web pay |
micropayment, Internet, sharing, reward, money |
Called Flattr, the micropayments system revolves around members paying a fixed monthly fee. At the end of each month that cash will be divided among participating sites a Flattr member wants to reward. Members might want to reward a band that made a track they liked, the author of a story they enjoyed or a site that gave useful advice. |
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Net neutrality: Are all bits created equal? |
freedom, Internet, censorship, USA |
The ability to visit big or small websites equally is coming under attack from critics of "net neutrality" in America. |
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Google and Yahoo raise doubts over planned net filters |
Google, Yahoo, Internet, censorship |
Google and Yahoo have joined two Australian organisations calling for a "rethink" of the country's controversial internet filter plans. |
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The truth behind elephant brainpower |
animal, intelligence, elephant, smell, hearing, cognition, psychology, brain |
Are elephants so smart that they can spot the difference when they hear people speaking different languages? |
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Biking directions added to Google Maps |
navigation, Google, bicycle |
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Nasa rides 'bucking bronco' to Mars |
NASA, Mars, rover |
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Google admits Buzz social network testing flaws |
Google Buzz, privacy, social network |
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Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose 'journalism haven' |
WikiLeaks, Iceland, journalism |
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Prisoner Facebook pages removed after victim taunts |
Facebook, prison, mobile phone, victim |
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Twitter etc and the election: Is it worth the risk? |
social network, Twitter, election, e-democracy |
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'Malaria and weak bones' may have killed Tutankhamun |
ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun, malaria, mummy |
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Why love birds 'dance' to the Sun |
sun, ritual, mating, bird, love |
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When time flies |
time, psychology, perception, speed |
Our feelings about time are captured in common sayings - how time flies when you're having fun, or how it drags when you're bored. Associations between this feeling of time passing and enjoyment run so deep that researchers in the United States were able to make people feel that they were having fun, just by simulating the experience of time flying. |
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Do speedy elephants walk or run? |
elephant, running, walking |
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Study hints at dark matter action |
dark matter, cosmology |
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Analysis of hair DNA reveals ancient human's face |
DNA, reconstruction, face, Greenland, hair, migration |
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Time to think small on climate change |
climate change, environment, local |
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Clouded leopard: First film of new Asia big cat species |
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India puts on hold first GM food crop on safety grounds |
genetical engineering, India |
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