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Short Takes: News From All Over: May 20, 2004

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May 2004
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Library at Alexandria Discovered
By Dr. David Whitehouse, BBC News
The oldest university in the world has more to teach us now that a team of Polish and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the Library at Alexandria, which 2,000 years ago housed works by the greatest thinkers and writers of the ancient world. Works by Plato and Socrates and many others were later destroyed in a fire. -- Jacob Wheeler
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3707641.stm

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Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims and Video Anomalies
By Decon Recon, Kuro5hin.com
The ugly scene of Islamic militants decapitating Nick Berg in front of the world may not be quite what it seems. Kuro5hin reveals plenty of reasons to wonder whether the United States military is being forthright with us. Among them: The perpetrator in the video couldn't have been infamous terrorist Abu Masab Al-Zaraqawi, as the CIA tells us, because Zaraqawi has a prosthetic leg, a hand tattoo, and speaks with a Jordanian accent ... none of which applied to the murderer in the video tape. -- Jacob Wheeler
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/15/22827/0477

The Revolution is My Boyfriend!
By Dylan Hicks, CityPages
Films like Raspberry Reich, Trannyfags, and Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World couldn't be shown just anywhere. That's why the Twin Cities are the proud hosts of the Flaming Film Festival this weekend. Going against the mainstream is chic these days because, as Hicks writes in CityPages, 'the advantage of having an archconservative American president, according to a certain line of thinking, is that he plants the seeds of revolt.' -- Jacob Wheeler
http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1223/article12104.asp

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