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Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?
Published: 2010-03-19 01:09:29Scholar Philip Jenkins argues that scriptures in the Quran are less brutal than those in the Bible. In his forthcoming book, Dark Passages, Jenkins points out that violence in the Quran is mostly defensive, but in the Bible, it is often a method of genocide.
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Secrecy Around Trade Agreement Causes Stir
Published: 2010-03-18 01:01:41The U.S. and other developed countries have quietly been negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement for several years. But secrecy around the talks has led to speculation about what's in the proposed international pact that centers on intellectual property rights.
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The End Of 9-To-5: When Work Time Is Anytime
Published: 2010-03-17 01:02:46A public agency in Minnesota is engaged in a cutting-edge experiment with flexible work schedules. It's called a results-only work environment, and it gives everyone in an office ultimate freedom to do their jobs — whenever and wherever they want — so long as the work gets done.
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'Top Secret': The Power And Struggle Of The Press
Published: 2010-03-16 01:06:57The New York Theatre Workshop's production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers examines the gray area between the rights of the press to publish and those of the government to protect its secrets.
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Violence Spurs Calls To Rein In The Repo Man
Published: 2010-03-15 01:07:23If you don't make your car payments, someone can be hired to repossess it. They might tow it from your driveway or a parking lot. But sometimes repo men go further, breaking into people's garages or homes. Fights can break out. People get hurt, and some have even been killed, prompting some groups to call for greater regulation.
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Coffee Party Founder Wants Common Grounds
Published: 2010-03-14 01:09:35In just a few weeks, fans of the Coffee Party on Facebook mushroomed from a few hundred to more than 100,000 — making documentary filmmaker Annabel Park the accidental leader of a political movement. Coffee Parties are meeting all across the country Saturday. What exactly are they going to do?
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We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die
Published: 2010-03-13 01:05:29Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of reporters with NPR's Planet Money used $1,000 of their own cash to buy a tiny piece of one — and plan to track it until it dies.
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Computers One Step Closer To Reading Your Mind
Published: 2010-03-12 01:08:07Clairvoyant computers may be nearer to reality than you'd think. In a new study, a computer program that analyzes brain scans was able to detect participants' thoughts — or at least their memories of a short film they were thinking about.
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OK Go Fights For Its Viral Video
Published: 2010-03-11 01:02:43Damian Kulash, singer-songwriter-guitarist with OK Go, talks about the group's split with its label as the result of a label policy that kept a popular video the band made from being embedded on YouTube. "This Too Shall Pass" is a viral video that took a month to make; it displays an elaborate two-story Rube Goldberg device timed to the song.
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Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls
Published: 2010-03-10 01:04:56On Wednesday, more than 1,000 women who flew military planes during World War II will be honored with the Congressional Gold Medal. They were known as WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots, and at the time of their service, they were civilians. They waited three decades to be granted military status. And history nearly forgot them.
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