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Incompatible? or What I've Learned Yesterday
After a very embarrassing incident, which involved me tripping and falling while out on my run (thankfully, it was in a very dark alley and noone actually saw me taking a tumble, although someone had to hear me swearing creatively in 3 different languages as I did it), I have finally concluded that my body was never made for the very active kind of ( Read more... ) -
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Интересно, а почему по-русски английское слово "caffeine" пишется через "о"?
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Jon Stewart and the End of the World
... or the religious aspect of the Middle East Conflict. See below for details.
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I am profoundly dumbfounded....
How can an article get published in a respectable academic political science journal if (1) it does not have a good argument, (2) it does not lay out any difinitive theoretical framework, (3) the terms are not properly defined, and are used in an incredibly inconsistent way, (4) the use and presentation of quantitative data is sloppy and non- ( Read more... ) -
Random Bits of Trivia
Here is a question for all of you (especially for my US citizens friends): Which one of the states was the last one to become a part of the US?
Consider this a multiple choice question - you have 50 choices (well, 37 if you know your 13 colonies). In case you were wondering what prompted me to ask this, it is among the standard questions on the US ( Read more... ) -
Argh!
I hate those moments when I'm being reminded of how f***ed up the reality is. So, apparently, it takes OSHA about 2 years to issue a temporary emergency standard limiting the use of a widely used hazardous chemical that has been proven through multimple reliable studies to have a severe negative health effect on a large number of people. And who's ( Read more... ) -
An Unlikely Pipeline Partnership
ИТАР-ТАСС reports...
Belarus, Venezuela enter strategic partnership - SC secretary.25.07.2006, 15.55 ( Read more... ) -
The Great American Puppet Doll
I'm sure everyone by now has already heard from some news source about Putin's pocking fun at Cheney as a response to his earlier criticism of Russia's bad record in every aspect of democracy: "I think your vice president's expression there is like his bad shot on his hunting trip ( Read more... ) -
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God, I love my country! They try oh-so-hard to break the good-old Cold War stereotypes, blaming the West for sticking with the old cliches. And yet at every step of the way they slip right back into the same rhetoric and behavior. On the Official President's Website there is a link http://www.openkremlin.ru/ that theoretically should take you on a ( Read more... )
