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Sex and UN peacekeepers: Tens of thousands of Liberian women involved?

United Nations Building New York EXCLUSIVE: A study cited in a just-published evaluation of the ugly problem of sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers calculates that as many as 58,000 women in Monrovia, Liberia, alone engaged in prohibited “transactional” sex with…

Those bad old foods are good for you now

What’s old is new again may be the simplest way to avoid whiplash when deciding what’s good to eat. Some foods that doctors were telling us to avoid just a few years ago are now being heartily embraced. Food science…

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

The IceCube Laboratory sits on the surface of the ice on top of the detector, collecting data from sensors under the ice. All 5,160 sensors that make up the in-ice array are connected to the lab via cable. (Sven Lidstrom,…

Protesters Urge Action on Climate Change at Summit

Police in Demark say more than 25,000 marched in protest of the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, demanding more aid from the United States and a stronger commitment from President Obama to combat global warming. “Pay the climate debt, America,”…