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James Riordan‘s current events article series, “A Well Thought-Out Scream”

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You’ve no doubt heard about the crowed prisons.  The results of the “war on drugs”, the three strike laws and the mandatory minimum prison sentences have  resulted in a hugely overcrowded prison population.  The United States has about 5% of the world’s population and about 25% of the world’s prison

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The longest continuing argument of mankind is Where do we come from?  And right up with that one is How long have we been here?  Science says one thing.  The bible says another.  The Bible dates Moses to about 5,000 B.C., but there’s no clear date for the creation of Adam.  Archeologists

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For years science and religious leaders have been arguing over the age of modern civilization.  Biblical accounts place the time of Moses about five thousand years ago.  Science pretty much agrees because the artifacts discovered from that period seem to be about that old.  It’s the time before Moses where the

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After analyzing over a year of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission, scientists are seeing some patterns.  Launched in July 2014, OCO-2, an experimental carbon-dioxide measurement mission, is designed to give the international science community a new view of the global carbon cycle in unprecedented detail. During its

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Joe Kennedy is the junior varsity head football coach and assistant varsity coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Washington.  Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap. It is connected to Downtown Seattle by a 60-minute ferry route, which carries both vehicles

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  You remember Dan Price?  He was the guy who decided to set a $70,000 minimum wage for his company,   Gravity Payments which has created a simpler way to use a credit card to make purchases.  The media went nuts when Price announce his company’s new “minimum wage”.  Book publishers  came calling

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False confessions induced by interrogators are among the leading causes of wrongful imprisonment in the United States, research shows. During hours-long, emotionally stressful interrogations, authorities have coerced, intentionally or not, innocent people to admit to crimes. The problem in many cases is the adversarial nature of the legal system.  The presumption is

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Recently declassified documents established beyond doubt that the Unite States with the help of Great Britain engineered the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mosaddeq, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran.    The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Mosaddeq, in documents

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Most times the only news we hear is bad.  It’s sad or terrifying and makes us wonder how the world will survive.  But sometimes, something really good happens and when we hear about it we feel a surge of hope inside. So now comes the story of how scientists helped

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 Well, there may be a way out of Black Holes after all.  That’s good news for those of you who have been worried that you might be out riding your bike one day and accidentally fall into one.  Actually that would only be possible if you had some kind of

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