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The University of Michigan made headlines this week for initially canceling a screening of the blockbuster film American Sniper because some Muslim students said that it being shown would make them feel “unsafe.” The college has since reversed this decision, but it’s not the only time something like this has happened. Here are seven other things that a school or its students have declared hazards to campus safety: 1. Bill Maher When the University of Berkeley announced that Bill Maher would be its graduation speaker last October, more than 6,000 students signed a petition demanding that he be banned because...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (Oct. 17, 2005) -- "These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day you’ll return to Your valleys and your farms And you’ll no longer burn To be brother- in-arms" They were more than names once. They were our fathers and husbands, our friends and sons. They were asked by their nation to stand a post in the center of a religious hellstorm they didn’t understand. They were Marines and they came in peace. At approximately 6:22 a.m. on Sunday,...

Studies prove people of Madagascar came from Borneo and Africa mongabay.com July 8, 2005 Studies released earlier this year found the people of Madagascar have origins in Borneo and East Africa. Half of the genetic lineages of human inhabitants of Madagascar come from 4500 miles away in Borneo, while the other half derive from East Africa, according to a study published in May by a UK team. The island of Madagascar, the largest in the Indian Ocean, lies some 250 miles (400 km) from Africa and 4000 miles (6400 km) from Indonesia. Its isolation means that most of its mammals,...

The Danger. No bill has been introduced yet, but Senator Stevens has promised one, and when it arrives it is likely to come straight out of the Commerce Committee he chairs and move directly to a vote with little time for public comment. The time to act is now. You can read more about this at... Center for American Progress: Think Again: The New Content Commissars Jammed.com: Transcript of Sen. Stevens' remarks on Internet "indecency" laws DownsizeDC.org commentary This bill would deny you the right to watch mature programming on cable TV for the sake of parents who are too...

Two years ago last weekend, a determined state legislator met with a group of scientists to talk about an idea eavesdroppers might have thought was far-fetched. Over dinner at the trendy Esquire Grill in Sacramento, the group discussed putting together a coalition of patient advocates and scientists to sponsor a state bond initiative that would provide money for stem cell research. President Bush had signed a bill a year earlier limiting the embryonic stem cell work scientists could pursue with federal dollars, and some conservatives in Congress wanted to criminalize the research. The group at the dinner in Sacramento wanted...

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Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s B.C. AFP: 8/27/2004 ERZURUM - Various archeological and cultural findings prove that Turks had come to Anatolia around 2000s B.C., Associated Prof. Semih Guneri said on Friday. Prof. Guneri and his team recently unearthed artifacts in excavations in Turkey's eastern provinces of Erzurum and Hakkari. According to experts, steles discovered by Associated Prof. Veli Sevin in Hakkari in the past will shed light on the question of ''When did Turks first come to Anatolia?''. Experts started to discuss this matter when a statue head which was sculpted around 2000s B.C. and was...

<p>Straight off, Governor Arnold accomplished something wonderful. In the California money crunch crisis, the Democrats thought they half-won. The Republicans thought they half-won. This is called ... "Compromise." And with the bond issue headed for the March ballot, Arnold wholly won, leaving bemusement in his wake.</p>