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MIT student arrested at Logan in bomb scare - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe - 0 views

  • charged with possessing a hoax device today at Logan International Airport for wearing a sweatshirt that had a circuit board affixed to the front with green LED lights and wires running to a 9-volt battery
  • Star Simpson, 19, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt
  • inquire about an incoming flight from Oakland
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  • holding a lump of what looked like putty
  • surrounded by police holding machine guns.
  • quickly determined that the device was harmless.
  • charged with possessing a hoax device
  • shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport."
sirgabrial

Official: Obama reverses stem cell policy | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 0 views

  • Official: Obama reverses stem cell policy
    • sirgabrial
       
      do you think that this is something that we should do when faceed with such a shitty economy?
  • Obama has signed an Executive Order today reversing the ban on federal funding of stem cells. You may recall he promised to do this during his campaign, and made a point of it in his answers for Science Debate 2008.
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  • the memorandum will order the Office of Science and Technology Policy to "assure a number of effective standards and practices that will help our society feel that we have the highest-quality individuals carrying out scientific jobs and that information is shared with the public,"
  • the Bush Administration unduly influenced
  • ideological beliefs.
barnaby

The Jena 6: Right Problem, Wrong Protest - 0 views

  • Folks should go to jail for stomping a random (and lone) person into the ER,
  • Not for attempted murder, of course not, but aggravated battery sounds about right
  • Jena High also boasts "black bleachers" where honkies fear not tread.
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  • don't know this either: the names of the true inheritors of the Civil Rights Movement, the brave students who sat under the "white tree".
  • asked, and received, permission to do so.
  • no march last week, no year of unrelenting "Afro-sphere" agitation, had the school refused them permission and no black took it on himself to kill whitey in revenge.
  • same oppression to which the black community continues to apply anachronistic, gotcha!, 60s-style tactics.
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