Sharpeville, 50 years later: a crime that still echoes
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: The Daily Maverick (South Africa) (3-21-10) Sunday, 21 March, leaves a five decade-mark on a timeline that started with the massacre that shocked the world and proved beyond doubt the inherent monstrosity of the apartheid system. It may have taken another 30 years for it to fall, but it was.. .. read more..
Dinosaurs Did Not Gradually Die Out
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: Discovery News (3-18-10) Non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, and now researchers have proven that this die-off didn\'t happen over a long period of time. A detailed look at dinosaur bones, tracks and eggs located at 29 archaeological sites located in the Catalan Pyrenees.. .. read more..
Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Raphael Found in Painting
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: Discovery News (3-19-10) Art experts find what they believe is the earliest signature of the master Raphael, hidden within a painting\'s arabesque decorations. Hidden beneath arabesque decorations, art experts have found what they believe is the earliest signature placed on a painting by the.. .. read more..
Iraq Inquiry asks to question George Bush\'s senior officials
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: Telegraph (UK) (3-20-10) The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War could take an explosive new twist after it emerged that leading figures in George Bush\'s administration have been asked to give evidence to it. Sources in Washington said the inquiry sent out emails \"about three weeks ago\" to se.. .. read more..
LBJ aide Liz Carpenter dies at 89
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: CNN (3-20-10) Liz Carpenter, a Texas journalist who became a presidential press aide in the Lyndon Johnson White House, died Saturday at the age of 89, according to the Johnson family. Carpenter served as an aide and press spokesman to Johnson when he was vice president, but she was named p.. .. read more..
Stewart Udall dies
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Source: CNN (3-20-10) Stewart Udall, the last surviving member of John F. Kennedy\'s presidential cabinet, died Saturday of natural causes, according to a statement released by the Udall family. He was 90 years old. Udall served as the Interior Secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Joh.. .. read more..
In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Source: New York Times (3-19-10) The social studies curriculum recently approved by the Texas Board of Education, which will put a conservative stamp on textbooks, was received less as a pedagogical document than as the latest provocation in America’s seemingly endless culture wars. “Wh.. .. read more..
Call for Battle of Culloden red coat memorial
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Source: BBC (3-20-10) A military historian has called for a memorial to soldiers who fought the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden. Trevor Royle said the government army has no equivalent to the markers on the battlefield which recall their foes. Writing in the National Trust for Scotland\'s magazi.. .. read more..
Dutch fury at US general\'s gay theory over Srebrenica
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Source: BBC (3-19-10) Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general\'s claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers. A defence ministry spokesman dismissed as \"complete nonsense\" the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander. Gen Sheehan had .. .. read more..
New York judge rejects Ground Zero dust pay-out deal
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Source: BBC (3-19-10) A US judge says a proposed $657m (£437m) deal for people who worked at New York\'s Ground Zero following the 9/11 terror attacks is too small. Some 10,000 rescue workers and police officers are suing New York City, saying they suffered health problems working in the dust a.. .. read more..