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I'd love to baptise ET, says Vatican's stargazer
"Any entity - no matter how many tentacles it has - has a soul" - Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican observatory
Where Boys Are Prized, Girls Live the Part
"There are no statistics about how many Afghan girls masquerade as boys. But when asked, Afghans of several generations can often tell a story of a female relative, friend, neighbor or co-worker who grew up disguised as a boy."
Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low
Surprise, surprise... a low turnout and lots of fraud.
Left-handed? Then you're more likely to be angry
No doubt the rest of you are all thinking that this explains a lot. The actual paper is entitled "Negative Emotional Valence Is Associated With Non-Right-Handedness and Increased Imbalance of Hemispheric Activation as Measured by Tympanic Membrane Temperature," although somehow I like the Daily Mail title better. BTW, what's with calling left-handedness "non-right-handedness"?

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That's quite the car. I guess it's not surprising with the bulletproof glass, but I was pretty surprised about the gas air filters part!

Oops was trying to respond to the other article!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311980/POPE-VISIT-Holy-Merc-transport-Benedict-XVI-UK.html

The Afghan girls growing up as boys as interesting --and seemingly historic. But one has to wonder how long you can carry on that charade. Or even, how long you'd WANT to carry on that charade?