Posts Tagged ‘twostate’

Turkey Recalls Ambassador After Germany Recognizes Armenian Genocide

Despite a barrage of pressure from Turkey, the German parliament has approved a symbolic resolution that declares the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces in 1915 to be genocide The vote was almost unanimous in support of the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining. The move was largely expected and […]

Thousands of Tons of Dead Creatures Hit Chile’s Beaches

Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Niño freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile’s Pacific beaches in recent months.  At the start of this year, a surge in algae in the water choked to death an estimated 40,000 tons of salmon in the Los Lagos region, where the Andes […]

Thousands of Tons of Dead Creatures Hit Chile’s Beaches

Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Niño freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile’s Pacific beaches in recent months.  At the start of this year, a surge in algae in the water choked to death an estimated 40,000 tons of salmon in the Los Lagos region, where the Andes […]

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

Francis Thackeray (TC) : Material unearthed from William Shakespeare’s garden and hometown suggests that the famed British playwright smoked cannabis. Now a 400-year-old poem offers literary evidence to support this hypothesis. Evidence is mounting to suggest that William Shakespeare drew at least some of his inspiration from cannabis. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The person behind the poem is […]

Who’s Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?

Source: Bloomberg Jody Sofia borrowed $92,500 to get a degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. Now she’s in default, her outstanding balance having ballooned to almost $144,000, and she spends her days fielding calls from government-contracted debt collectors. The companies making those calls are just one part of an ecosystem feeding […]

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