By Robert Bazell
Chief science and health correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 5:52 p.m. ET June 5, 2007
Breast cancer treatment may fail most women
Researchers say common chemotherapy drugs too risky for many patient
The Streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone – News/Documentary
S Leone honours Africa slave campaigners
By Yvonne Ndege-Burke and Mohammed Fajah-Barrie
BBC Africa, Freetown
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 09:41 GMT
As the UK marks 200 years since it abolished the slave trade, Sierra Leone has decided to purge its capital, Freetown, of streets named after the British and replace them with the names of Africans who fought in the abolition movement.
Is Joseph Ratzinger A Rat? – News/Documentary
Ratzinger the Inglorious Rat — Newsreport
A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic priests.
Haplotype K2-M70
Haplogroup K2-M70 – by Jide Uwechia
Haplogroup K2 (M70, M184, M193, M272) is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a subclade of Haplogroup K.
Did Americans Walk the Moon 30 years ago? – Ogu-Ejiofo Annu
Did Americans Walk the Moon 30 years ago???
According to Reuters reporting from Washington DC: – Cosmic rays are so dangerous and so poorly understood that people are unlikely to get to Mars or even back to the moon until better ways are found to protect astronauts, experts said on Monday.
The Mythologized Modern State of Israel – Haaretz Newspapers
Last update – 12:06 21/03/2008
Shattering a ‘national mythology’ By Ofri Ilani:
Of all the national heroes who have arisen from among the Jewish people over the generations, fate has not been kind to Dahia al-Kahina, a leader of the Berbers in the Aures Mountains. Although she was a proud Jewess, few Israelis have ever heard the name of this warrior-queen who, in the seventh century C.E., united a number of Berber tribes and pushed back the Muslim army that invaded North Africa. It is possible that the reason for this is that al-Kahina was the daughter of a Berber tribe that had converted to Judaism, apparently several generations before she was born, sometime around the 6th century C.E.
Barack Obama Speaks – God, Race and Country
Transcript of Obama speech
By: Barack Obama
March 18, 2008 02:22 PM EST
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
Human Diversity: Pale Skin/Black Genes
Tracing human diversity through the ages
STANFORD SCIENTISTS FIND SURPRISING LINKS
By Lisa M. Krieger
Mercury News
Article Launched: 02/22/2008 01:35:17 AM PST
A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world’s populations.
African Genetics Revisited: Europeans are genetically inferior to Africans
Published February 22nd 2008
The in depth studies can be found at the article’s source, here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html
“White Americans are both genetically weaker and less diverse than their black compatriots, a Cornell University-led study finds.
Make Love Not War! By Lion I
Rasta says make love not war. For love making is the invocation of the life force whereas war is death and destruction.
Thus I Lion say to Babylon, have more great sex and spice up your wretched lives. But keep it clean, keep it safe keep it loving and rspectful.