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Two Saratoga County girls, ages 15 and 16, went to NYC on their spring break with the older girl's mother. They'd been going to NYC for years with no problems, but then this year, the girls sneaked out of their room at the YourStay Central Park

A poll commissioned by the AFL-CIO has found that full-time faculty members at public universities that aren't unionized would be interested in a union or something like it. LINK [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/22/poll]. We would have thought all full-time professors at public universities

Spain's Socialist government continues to ramrod its Leftist social agenda. Yesterday, the lower house passed a bill to allow gay marriages, thus joining The Netherlands and Belgium. The bill also allows gay couples to adopt children. LINK [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4469653.stm]

Here's an interesting piece about the cougar attacks in California. LINK [http://www.lewrockwell.com/fontova/fontova46.html]. You may want to skip the first half. It's a little too self-indulgent for us, but the second half is clever enough. Excerpts: > "There is a

Just some more of what might be coming to childless Europe as they continue to welcome Muslims to fill the worker void: > A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot dead Wednesday after being chased by an angry crowd. > Ashiq Nabi, in his thirties, was accused

What's Bavaria known best for? Beer, and now the pope. It's fitting that a brewer in Pope Benedict's former village, Marktl am Inn, has started to sell Pabstbier: Pope Beer. Link [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504210259apr21,1,4149412.story?coll=chi-news-hed&

Nice article at Tech Central Station about the CDC's admission this week that it has overblown reports of the adverse health effects of obesity. The article is strongly libertarian (no surprise, coming from TCS), but also seems laced with a little Ivan Illich and his famous opening words

This novel about no-fault divorce in Michigan sounds fairly realistic. We may have to buy it. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sobran1.html]. Two excerpts: > 1. The story's hero, Barry Ballinger, has, to say the least, a troubled marriage. His wife, Sal, serves him with divorce

Here's a great story that'll get the ACLU mad: authorities in Alabama arrested a brother and sister for, ah, well, impropriety. It appears they were pretty drunk, but it was fully consensual. Link. [http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/111401010148380.xml] Needless

"Voorhees High School will remain closed today while school and law enforcement officials try to determine how a bag full of rotting animal parts wound up hidden behind a ceiling tile in the school lunchroom." LINK [http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-7/111390154918860.