Who should President Bush nominate for the Supreme Court now that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination?

Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com .

(CNSNews.com) - European sex workers want European Union governments to respect their human rights and apply labor laws to their profession.

The International Committee on the Ri...

Genus to Buy Sygen for 187 Mln Pounds, Add Genetics (Update3)

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Genus Plc, the biggest U.K. cattle breeder, will buy Sygen International Plc for about 187 million pounds ($333.4 million) to cut costs and gain genetic and bio- technology for boosting the meat quality of cows, pigs and chickens.

Shareholders of Abingdon, England-based Sygen will receive 63.2 pe...

But the bigger differences are in their behavioral patterns. So in chimpanzees you'll see a lot of dominance displays throughout the day and a fair amount of aggression going on, as well as grooming and peaceful interactions. But in bonobos you tend to see a lot more affiliative interactions and a lot more sexual interactions going on throughout the course of the day.

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Puppets who kill, puppets who drink and puppets who, well, you know. Tim Gosley has seen them all.

Scandal looms behind the scenes of some of Canada's most acclaimed G-rated children's television programs. Gosley should know: he was there.

"With children's shows, when the cameras aren't on, we were doing all these rude things with puppets," said Gemini award-winning Gosley, who...

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I once proposed, satirically, during the days when Hollywood was indulging a craze for "colorizing" its black-and-white films, that they could go one step further. Why not use the available technology to erase all images of smoking from the archives? True, Humphrey Bogart would be seen raising ...

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 28, 2005 (Zenit.org ).- Here is a translation of the message Benedict XVI wrote for the 92nd World Day of Migrants and Refugees, to be observed Jan. 15.

The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, whose rich teaching covers many areas of ecclesial life, closed 40 years ago. The pastoral constitution "Gaudium et Spes," in particular, made a careful analysis of the complexitie...

Oxford Student > MT2005 Week 3 > Music > Worlds Apart

Unless you have recently travelled through Central or South America, or ventured out of the tourist enclaves on a Spanish holiday, it’s more than likely that you’ll only have come into contact with reggaeton through Daddy Yankee’s track Gasolina, a top ten hit in the UK this summer. And even then you probably didn’t understand ...

Over the past decade, Western interest in Ivan Bunin has undergone a curious revival. Even as aficionados of the writer bemoan the fact that Bunin is little known (and read) in Europe and the United States, publishers on both sides of the Atlantic have been translating his long and short works at an impressive rate. Since 2002 alone, at least three new editions of Bunin's writing have appeared...

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." (Otto von Bismarck Prussian Prime Minister, 1815-1898)

I wonder how many people really believe that the milestone figure of 2000 US soldiers killed is the real truth - I certain do not, and it has nothing to do with my views on the war, but everything to do with the various independent reports and analyses ema...

Oct. 31, 2005 issue - The Japanese tend to expect diplomatic bouquets from even the most insignificant of their foreign visitors. So imagine the audience reaction when German ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt, invited to give a lecture in Tokyo last month, treated his hosts to an exercise in bluntness. He accused the Japanese of soft-pedaling their country's responsibility for its wartime past-and ...