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From the Washington Post in " Libyan Rebels Carry Out Reprisal Attacks :" A few minutes’ drive from the fire station, at least 15 ...

Earlier, I pointed out how remarkable it is that Charles Darwin has, in recent decades, been promoted to near-divine status in our culture, ...

Here's a good article in Slate's Twins Week by writer Barry Harbaugh about getting a genetic test to see if he and his twin brother...

Jennifer Gordon writes in an op-ed in the NYT about that amusing strike at the Hershey factory by foreign students who thought they were s...

Twin expert Nancy L. Segal has a new book, Someone Else's Twin: the True Story of Twins Switched at Birth about a pair of identical twi...

In Slate, Brian Palmer denounces 135 years of twin studies in " Double Inanity :" The idea of using twins to study the heritabilit...

Last week in Taki's Magazine , in the first of a two part series, I recounted (in slightly amped-up form) a conversation I've gotten...

Jon Lackman writes in Slate : In rare cases, however, children do develop an entire language of their own, and amazingly, all full-blown twi...

Libyan rebels fired at forces loyal to Qaddafi during fierce fighting in downtown Tripoli on Monday. - NYT Can you actually hit anything fi...

Not surprisingly, DA Cyrus Vance Jr. dropped charges against former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn. I must say that I feel like I've ...

English historian David Starkey writes in The Telegraph : Instead, I was trying to point out the very different patterns of integration at t...

From the New York Daily News  on the next phase in the  Vulcan Society v. Fire Department of New York  disparate impact discrimination lawsu...

The surrender of Japan in the late summer of 1945 remains one of the more argued-over events in history, even though it happened in the abs...

Sara Mosle, a schoolteacher who has been one of the more realistic critics of the education reform bandwagon, reviews Steven Brill's boo...

This Martin Luther King National Memorial, which will be dedicated on August 28 on the Mall in D.C., is shaping up as the kind of farce that...

I'm sometimes told, "Look, everybody knows that what you say is right and they all operate on that knowledge. They just don't w...

From the New York Times: Foreign Students in Work Visa Program Stage Walkout at Plant  By JULIA PRESTON  PALMYRA, Pa. — Hundreds of foreign ...

Chief Seattle explains the hulking Martin Luther King statue debuting on the National Mall in D.C.: It's a monument to modern American c...