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Ann Coulter: A Misinformed Voice in America?
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Dr. Watson and German secret Club
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Brazil Releases Classified UFO Data
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My new discovery turns science on its head
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A better skill than reciting pi digits
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Amazing intelligent design videogame (video)
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Suprising article I found in a 2001 Secientific American.
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Making Foreign Diacritics on Windows XP
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Best Baklava Ever?
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