December 2010
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“One peculiar outcome of the new clampdown on whistleblowers is the spectacle of...”
– The Torture of Bradley Manning
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“The creation of a permanent, insecure and frightened underclass is the most...”
– Chris Hedges
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Girl kills pimp & is sentenced to prison for life →
Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp.
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“I’ve led a team that has discovered a microbe that can substitute arsenic for...”
– FELISA WOLFE-SIMON, NASA Research Fellow, at the agency’s historic press conference announcing the discovery of microbes with DNA substituing arsenic for phosphorus, one of six key elements essential to life.
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“Yet by 2005, harm reduction had become official policy in Iran. Ayatollah...”
– Needle Exchange in Iran - NYTimes.com
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“Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are...”
– Howard Zinn
“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens....”
– Bertrand Russell