From CNN.com:
"Ants can teach each other"

"British researchers said on Wednesday they had uncovered the first proof of teaching in non-human animals -- ants showing each other the way to food."

Absolutely amazing. Maybe these ants can teach some Katrina refugees how to swing a hammer.

"The ants studied over two years by scientists from Bristol University used a technique known as tandem running -- one ant led another ant from the nest to a food source.

It was a genuine case of teaching as ant leaders observed by Professor Nigel Franks and Tom Richardson slowed down if the follower got too far behind. If the gap got smaller, they then speeded up." 
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Now come and get me. Or, stop handing down vaguely-worded, Nazi-esque decrees. From CNET:

"Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity."

Even more disturbing: "This ridiculous prohibition... is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison." (emphasis added for retards who do not understand the huge potential for abuse of this.)

Who's to decide the definition of 'annoy', anyhow?  
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The self-chosen elite are cracking down. Peace is now illegal in the UK. After conditioning the public to accept 24/7 video monitoring for speeding drivers, the cameras are now being used for more sinister purposes. From the Telegraph:

"A motorist who made V-signs at a police speed camera has been convicted of dangerous driving and banned for a year."

Draconian? 
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Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, turns 100 on Wed. the 11th. Just reading the man 
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"Mayor Robert Duffy has decided to, in effect, end high-speed ferry service between Rochester and Toronto, saying the financial risk would be too great to go further in debt.

 
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In response to an immigration bill approved by the House of Representatives in December and going before the Senate in February, foreign ministers from five central American countries issued this statement: "Migrants, regardless of their migratory status, are not and should not be treated like criminals." According to Dictionary.com, the definition of criminal is "Of, involving, or having the nature of crime." Furthermore, crime is defined as "An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction." So, when these central American ministers are telling the US that we should disregard a migrant's migratory status, they are really telling us to let criminals run free within our country. Beyond the fact that ILLEGAL immigrants are criminals because they don't have guest worker or citizen status, they are criminals because they don't have to pay taxes (even though many end up having children who attend public schools that are funded by the very taxes the illegal immigrants don't pay). It should also be noted that, according to Lou Dobbs, 33 percent of the prison population in the US is comprised of non-citizens. illegal immigrants are criminals, and should be treated like criminals. The only difference is that we can deport them to whatever country they came from, and should do so at the cost of the country of origin! That way, when the Mexican president "promises" to reduce immigration to the US, he'll have to.

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Read the myths and lies of illegal immigration 

From Yahoo News: "Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy. (AP Photo/Traci Allen)"

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From CNN.com: "U.S. opening some private mail in terror fight"

"News of the little-known practice follows revelations that the government approved eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without judicial oversight after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which sparked concern from civil liberties advocates and some lawmakers, who called for congressional hearings."  
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The story of the West Virginia miners tragedy was an emotional whipsaw that ended up trapping the media  
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Officials are "super excited".

From CNN.com: "Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said Tuesday.

The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago." 
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For the second day in a row, New York City remains in a state of paralysis after public transit workers went on strike, effectively shutting down the system. The union itself is facing charges of $1 million per day, with individual union members facing fines of $25,000 per day, doubling daily.

The kicker, however, is this: the fines were imposed by apparently 'retroactive' legislation, passed Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to get workers back to their posts as quickly as possible.

"You can't break the law and use that as a negotiating tactic," Mayor Bloomberg whined at a press conference.

Well, neither can you make the law and use that as a negotiating tactic. 
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It has recently come to light that the CIA has been operating a network of secret prisons established across the globe, even using jets provided by the Red Sox to deliver their guests. What was not known until most recently, however, was the cruel and inhumane use of Enimem and Dr. Dre as instruments of torture. 
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From CNN.com: "Robots may not be able to do everything humans can, but the latest version of Sony humanoid robot has something many people might find useful: a third eye.

The Japanese consumer electronics company's roller-skating robot, QRIO, has now been enlightened with an extra camera eye on its forehead that allows it to see several people at once and focus in on one of them." 
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From MSNBC.com: "Guitarist Jeff Baxter is a founding member of Steely Dan and a member of the Doobie Brothers. The 56-year-old Baxter has eight platinum albums and two Grammys, but he likes to call himself a hippie rock guitarist with top secret clearances. Now, believe it or not, he's one of the top counterterrorism experts in the United States."

Baxter, on missile defense: "So, one day, I don't know what happened. I sat down at my Tandy 200 and wrote this paper about how to convert the Aegis weapon system  
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