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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Coming soon, a linguist's guide to obscenities
The National Science Foundation is paying more than $200,000 for a study whose results may be unprintable. Christopher Potts , a linguist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will catalog and analyze the use of obscenities, vulgarities, and racial epithets as well as titles and honorifics.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Infidel Bugs Buzz Al-Libbi's Latest Video
A new videotape was released today by al Qaeda's Abu Yahya al Libbi. The video is devoted, in part, to eulogizing and vowing revenge on behalf of slain mujahideen. But insects interfere during his speech. If those bugs are specific to a certain location, al Libbi's location could be deduced.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Greening the Sahara
Scientists at Boston University are using satellites to find groundwater in the world's most forbidding desert.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Who Killed Bin Laden's Brother-in-Law?
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Brother claims an intelligence service killed Jamal Khalifa. Was the assassination a rendition gone wrong? And where did the Saudis get the names of 10 terror financiers in Khalifa's hometown?
Friday, January 19, 2007
Saints, preserved: Relics collect in diocesan archives
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Once treasured, Catholic relics are now collecting in the archives room in Boston and around the country.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Dark Matter: Secrets of the Universe
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New dark matter map shows the large-scale structure of the universe.
