January 2012
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Coca-Cola in Columbia
“To date, there have been a total of 179 major human rights violations of Coca-Cola’s workers, including 9 murders. Family members of union activists have been abducted and tortured. Union members have been fired for attending union meetings. The company has pressured workers to resign their union membership and contractual rights, and fired workers who refused to do so.
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“L.A. Confidential, the movie, is the best thing that happened to me in my career...”
– James Ellroy on his novel L.A. Confidential and its film adaptation.
“I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual...”
– Democratic Party Representative Barney Frank
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A real post by the DPRK about Kim Jong-un.
World Public Praises Kim Jong Un as Great Man Born of Heaven
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) — World public is praising the dear respected Kim Jong Un who is identical to the great men of Mt. Paektu in idea, leadership and traits.
The Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in an article posted on their Internet homepage said that General Kim Jong Un is...
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WORD OF THE DAY
“tumescent”
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Why Rats Can't Vomit
Anatomical textbooks on rats usually mention in passing that rats can’t vomit. They tend to implicate the limiting ridge or the lack of striated muscle in the rat’s esophagus, and sometimes both (Fox et al. 2002, Haschek and Rosseaux 1998, Moore 2000, Rice and Fish 1994, Turton et al. 1998), but these textbooks do not go into more detail about exactly how these features of a...
