Professor Benny Shanon of Hebrew University hypothesizes that Moses was under the influence of a mind-altering concoction made from the bark of local acacia tree. Breitbart, Guardian, Forbes, Guardian, Haaretz
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The Icelandic singer was performing her song, Declare Independence
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See pictures. Telegraph
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Despite a weakened economy, 2007 brought great windfalls through deals and transactions to these fortunate fifty. Vanity Fair (via Huffington Post)
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The Bush administration predicted the war would cost $2 billion, but as the war drags on into the fifth year, Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor calculate the true cost to be in the trillions. New York Times, Houston Chronicles
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To demonstrate how a vast quantity of information can be stored in minimal space, nanotechnology experts at Technion Institute have etched 308,428 words of the Old Testament onto a 0.5mm square of silicon. MSNBC, Telegraph
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The FBI is investing one billion dollars to create a database that gathers digital images of faces, fingerprints, palm patterns and irises. Washington Post
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The weak dollar and down market are attracting Europeans to the New York real estate scene. New York Times
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“These almost six years of captivity have shown me that I’m not as resistant, nor as brave, nor as intelligent, nor as strong as I had thought.” Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning for president when she was kidnapped by guerrillas in February 2002. Washington Post, Google News, Wikipedia
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At the invitation of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Ahmadinejad was the first Iranian leader to attend the annual haj pilgrimage. 1,708,000 Muslims from 181 countries are in Saudi Arabia for the event. Times Online
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