* Approximately 29,000 prisoners join hunger strike in California to protest system conditions. * The dream of eliminating infectious disease—e.g., MERS, SARS, AIDS—is dead. * Egypt's political cartoons increasingly stifled. * Police report shows there are now more elderly shoplifters than teenaged ones in Tokyo. * World's
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* Lunar scientists believe Earth once had two moons that became one after a collision. * The area of the brain that helps you decide what to share on social media is called the "temporo-parietal junction." * As U.S. demographics shift, food manufacturers try and keep up with changing
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* U.S. federal judge says force-feeding Gitmo protesters appear to be illegal, but she can't stop it. * In protest of force-feeding Gitmo prisoners, Mos Def volunteers to be force-fed. * S&P said that reasonable investors would know its assurances of independence were just marketing.
* For schools that choose to arm their employees, insurance carriers are raising premiums or refusing to provide coverage. * From 2011 to four days ago, a timeline of Egypt's transition from Mubarak to Morsi. * There is a war on Wikipedia over naming Egypt's "coup," since
* France, too, has a PRISM that spies on all its citizens and stores their online data. * For Fred Perry, until yesterday the last Brit to win Wimbledon, it was a very different reception. * For years he was relegated to the fourth man: How Andy Murray became great. * Now it'
