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Introduction Compact
This thread is a place to post articles that others might find interesting, on a range of topics. I hope it can be a relatively concise running record of topical stories that people might actually be able to go back and read to see how things were covered over time. Topics I'll be posting on include the eponymous current events, science, technology, and books, maybe even a little sports, plus whatever else catches my interest. Feel free to contribute anything of general interest.

Guidelines: When posting external sources, try to lead your posts with headline / titles and link to full text, so that there's some indication what your post is about from the header page. And do try to post external sources as much as possible. Try to post an excerpt that will catch people's interest. Try not to post entire articles unless the links are known to be volatile or you don’t have a link. Try to avoid editorial page / op-ed type commentary.

Things to avoid:

1. Demonstrations of Godwin's Law.
2. Complaints about the NYT in particular or the "liberal media" in general.
3. Calling anybody a traitor.

[ having mercifully gotten by so far without a roundup of the ususal suspects, moderation here is minimal, more of a safety belt / air bag than anything else ]
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603"Ok, that's it. Moribund or not, this thread is not going to be turned TopCat37/19/2012
602"Ok, that's it. Moribund or not, this thread is not going to be turned average joe46/4/2012
601Ok, that's it. Moribund or not, this thread is not going to be turned into Win Smith16/4/2012
600"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individuaaverage joe26/4/2012
599God Bless Booda! "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never average joe13/20/2012
598God Bless GK Chesterton! "Government has become ungovernable; that is, it average joe13/20/2012
597God bless Ayn Rand! "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, baverage joe13/20/2012
596Ok, is there any particular reason that you've chosen to grace this moribundWin Smith13/20/2012
595THE STIMULUS AND THE RESPONSE A CRITIQUE OF B.F. SKINNER AYN RAND The Stiaverage joe13/20/2012
594Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Poaverage joe13/20/2012
593Fare well, Scotty. James ‘Scotty’ Doohan dies at age 85 msnbc.msn.comElsewhere-7/20/2005
5924 Astronauts Will Be on Emergency Standby Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:41 PM ET By MarciaElsewhere-3/20/2005
591Space Sugar a Clue to Life's Origins Discovery of Molecule in Region of ExtrElsewhere-9/28/2004
590NASA Identifies Foam Flaw That Killed Astronauts Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:43 PM ET ByElsewhere-8/14/2004
589Artificial prions [I have followed BSE research superficially for a couple of yElsewhere-7/30/2004
588Francis H.C. Crick, 88, Dies; DNA Discovery Altered Science By Patricia SullivaElsewhere-7/30/2004
587<b>In Searching We Trust</b> nytimes.com By DAVID HOCHMAN BEN SILVEWin Smith-3/15/2004
586<b>Bush Policy on Human Stem Cells Faces New Challenges </b> nytimesWin Smith-3/4/2004
585<b>How Bush's Advisers Confront the World</b> nytimes.com By MIWin Smith-3/4/2004
584Thanks Win, Elizabeth Drew appears to have that most unnatural of all problems.Raymond Duray-3/3/2004
583I actually don't know anything about Elizabeth Drew, I just rounding up the Win Smith-3/3/2004
582Hi Win, I'm curious as to why you consider Ms. Drew worthy of such attentioRaymond Duray-3/2/2004
581<b>Hung Up in Washington</b>, part 2/2 3. One of the mysteries ofWin Smith-3/2/2004
580<b>Hung Up in Washington</b> nybooks.com By Elizabeth Drew Like NWin Smith-3/2/2004
579<b>Tomorrow the World</b> nybooks.com By Thomas Powers An End to Win Smith-3/2/2004
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