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Abortion drug RU-486 legalized in Italy
Region: ItalyAfter years of fitful and controversial debates, the government of Italy has legalized the use of the abortion drug RU-486. Despite enormous contrariety and threats of immediate excommunication coming from the Vatican. Ita... more
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Abortion surges in China
Region: ChinaThe latest government survey shows over 13 million abortions are conducted every year, a jump from 9 million in 2003, reports China Daily. It also shows 62 percent of the women who had abortions are bet... more
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Chaotic drug management in Hong Kong
Region: Hong KongThe diuretics were contaminated with bacteria; the antiepileptic drugs were contaminated with fungi, and one patient died because of taking those drugs; the antihypertensive drugs and the antidiabetic drugs were mixed. The... more
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Jackie is NOT Out of Control
Region: Hong KongIt must have been known worldwide what Jackie Chan, the Chinese actor, has said: “China needs to be under control. I am conflicted about whether freedom is good or not. Because being too free, it will become chaotic ... more
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Obama's going to restrict arms possession regulations for law-abiding Americans?
Region: United StatesAlmost immediately after Obama won the 2008 presidential election on the first Saturday of November, many licensed retail weapons dealers started to experience surge in sales of guns to private individuals across the Unite... more
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India-Pakistan Finalizes Trade Across Line of Control in Kashmir
Region: India
Notwithstanding the fury of protesters in the Srinagar Valley and Jammu over Amarnath Shrine land row, India and Pakistan finalized the modalities today (22nd Sept ’08) of mutual trade across the Line of Control (LoC... more
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Men’s Birth Control Faces Many Obstacles
Region: United States
Posted by Rachel Balik to findingDulcinea Pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to make a push for men’s birth control, and current innovations are a long way from being market-ready. Scientifically speaking, birt... more
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BLM Proposes Slaughtering Wild Horses
Region: United States
Posted by Lindsey Chapman to findingDulcinea The Bureau of Land Management is considering a plan to slaughter wild horses in the West to contain their soaring populations. There are more wild horses roaming the West than... more
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Parapraxis (Or, Ted Turner's Tongue Slips Out)
Region: Wisconsin
Never mind that scientists like Freeman Dyson feel that the current global warming trend (which isn’t even global and may have already halted or gone into reverse, among other complexities) could well be beneficial t... more
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Convocation
Region: New York
I decided not to publish this article written last Spring because the collective pain of the Blacksburg massacre was too raw. But with the Supreme Court weighing in on the issue of the Second Amendment, I now fe... more
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