January 2010
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'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US... →
Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”.
Merriam Webster’s 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that...
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Report: Scores of albinos in hiding after attacks →
As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.
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Open Letter to the Kansas School Board →
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“Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can’t take the sky from me.”
– Joss Whedon (composer) and Sonny Rhodes (performer), “Ballad of Serenity” the Firefly theme song
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