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What We've Found: women in submarines, dinosaurs, fetuses in jars, cheap vodka, more snow (!), etc.
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What We've Found: women in submarines, dinosaurs, fetuses in jars, cheap vodka, more snow (!), etc.
Lara Coleman here with your morning fix:
SecDef Robert Gates tells Congress that women in the Navy will now be allowed to serve on submarines.
The first batch of about 150 full-body airport scanners will be installed in Boston next week; three machines go up immediately, the rest will come by June. Note to travelers: If you wear funny underpants, you'll make the TSA workers giggle.
The Women's Medical Society, an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia, has been raided and shut down due to unsanitary conditions, including aborted fetuses displayed in jars. Gross. Also, way to give the fundies something to get all charged up about.
Scientists announced that they discovered a new species of dinosaur discovered in Utah. Scientists believe that the bones belong to a new type of sauropod — the largest animals that have ever lived.
Mayor Nutter is considering a trash fee; last year, he sought a $5 per week charge. Its’s unclear what he'll want this go-round.
A new French anti-smoking ad depicts an older man pushing down the head of a teenage girl, who is smoking a cigarette. The slogan reads "To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco." Controversy ensues.
Three Google executives in Milan, Italy have been convicted of privacy violations for letting a video of an autistic boy who is being abused to be posted on the Internet. They received a suspended six-month sentence. To date, no one has gone to jail for the atrocity that is Google Buzz.
More snow on Thursday.
In an attempt to stop a nationwide drinking problem, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has upped the price of cheap vodka to 89 rubles, or roughly $3 for a half-liter, nearly double of what it cost last year. In related news, every single Russian is now broke.
We kid. Stereotypes are not funny.
[...] From “The Clog”… the Philly City Paper’s blog. The WomenÂ’s Medical Society, an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia, has been raided and shut down due to unsanitary conditions, including aborted fetuses displayed in jars. Gross. Also, way to give the fundies something to get all charged up about. [...]
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