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Ancient Buddhas, Modern Peril
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WHEN the Taliban blasted the famous Bamiyan Buddhas with artillery and dynamite in March 2001, leaders of many faiths and countries denounced the destruction as an act of cultural terrorism. But today, with the encouragement of the American government, Chinese engineers are preparing a similar act of desecration in Afghanistan: the demolition of a vast complex of richly decorated ancient Buddhist monasteries.
The offense of this Afghan monument is not idolatry. Its sin is to sit atop one of the world’s largest copper deposits.
Merry Christmas From the Feds, Who Can Still Read Your Emails Without a Warrant
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It’s no secret that the CIA and FBI can read your emails for any old reason they choose without having to clear it with anyone first (because you’re a terrorist).
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PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly Hosting Provider PRQ
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After a fruitful partnership lasting three years, PayPal decided to ruin their relationship with the so-called “bullet-proof” hoster by freezing the company’s funds for up to 180 days. On PayPal’s advice PRQ opened a second account to get by while the dispute was being sorted out, but then without warning PayPal seized those funds too.
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Narrow focus on New Delhi incident misses scope of India’s rape crisis
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Every 25 minutes, a woman is molested in India; every 40 minutes a woman in raped.
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I am thinking about The New York Review of Books
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Formal Reprimand Issued To Flatulent Federal Worker
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DECEMBER 21–A federal employee was formally reprimanded this month for excessive workplace flatulence, a sanction that was delivered to him in a five-page letter that actually included a log of representative dates and times when he was recorded “releasing the awful and unpleasant odor” in his Baltimore office.
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I am thinking about Apocalypse
“No Apocalypse yet… Now I’m worried. Hope nothing happened to it on the way. I really don’t want to have to do laundry and clean :(”
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“Inhabitable” planet found in star system 12 light years away
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An Ugly Reminder in Russia That Bigotry Lingers
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The biggest supporters group of Zenit St. Petersburg asked that the team sign only white, heterosexual players, flying in the face of decades of progress in integrating soccer.
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