Source: Discovery News (3-10-10)The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life. Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday. The site appears to have been the las […]

Source: Tehran Times (3-11-10)Construction by local residents has imperiled an ancient structure, believed to be the tomb of Cyrus I, the Achaemenid king and son of Teispes and grandfather of Cyrus II the Great, near the village of Tang-e Eram in Bushehr Province. Experts have demarcated a 100-meter perimeter for the site, which was registered on the Nationa […]

Source: AP (3-13-10)In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender. Gary Krupp, who is Jewish, says he grew up hating the late pontiff. Now, at 62, the retired Long Island businessman is caught up in the contr […]

How do you teach a big, dumb corporate beast? You hurt it in the only way it understands. It's time to teach WalMart that mistreating medical marijuana patients is very, very bad for business. […]

The conservative side of the political spectrum has attempted to use their version of morality for nearly 30 years as a way of winning elections. Although both sides and the center certainly have their sex scandals, when they are done by the so called 'family values' Christian Conservatives, it is especially hypocritical. From the last few years, h […]

An Aboriginal leader in Australia claims archaeologists have discovered the world's southernmost site of early human life. The site is reported to be 40,000 years old. Is this the earliest human site here, and what does it mean in terms of the origins of human settlement? […]

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