The 8.71 billion ruble lawsuit

On an especially quiet news day comes word that NASA is the target of a massive lawsuit. Details fill space in a report in the May 6, 2005 issue of Interfax: MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax) – The Moscow City Court has upheld a suit from a Russian astrologer against a NASA project aimed at exploring […]

Sneaky education in Kansas

The Kansas Board of Education is in the news again — trying, trying, trying to make students become curious about biology. The Board is still using the traditional method for making anyone curious about anything: make that subject seem somehow "forbidden." (A fascinating May 4, 2005 editorial in the Washington Times uses that same pedigogical […]

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