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Sarah Palin has accused presidential candidate Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists - referring to his acquaintance with a former member of the Weather Underground. So who were the Weather Underground?

Embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, with many of the grievances of the civil-rights movement still unanswered, the US government was facing widespread protests in the late 1960s.

bbc.co.uk wiki Video "The Weather Underground" - 93 Min.

Ermittler in den USA können die Bevölkerung künftig noch intensiver kontrollieren als bisher. Dank neuer Richtlinien dürfen Beamte des FBI künftig ohne konkreten Verdacht und ohne Erlaubnis des Vorgesetzten Menschen überwachen und befragen. Kritiker befürchten "politische Hexenjagden".

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A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.

Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.

discovery.com

Oh crap, it looks like Xenu is now after singer Amy Winehouse. Will Amy Winehouse join the likes of people such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Beck and turn to Scientology?

Supposedly someone up in Scientology has contacted Winehouse with the offer of getting rid of her drug habit, reported Britain’s Sunday Mirror.

mirror.co.uk

Most plants contain some level of toxins (like alkaloids) for defense. After all, they’re plants. They can’t go anywhere. Through millennia of trial and error, both animals and human beings have figured out which plants are safe, which are lethal, and which are somewhere in between. For example, did you know that many grain-bearing plants contain a toxin known as lectins? And that the African staple, cassava, must be thoroughly boiled and soaked to separate it from its poisonous compound, cyanide?

webecoist.com

They struck it lucky with a sample that was collected back in 1960, from a woman living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This is the second-oldest sample of the HIV virus ever found - the oldest is from 1959.

abc.net.au