Phil Spector in the dock at his trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson

Don’t let this happen to anyone you love. No matter how good they may once have been.

Medicated to the gills, suffering from short man’s disease, thinning hair and a pathological need to be noticed, psychologically damaged from his father’s suicide, his mother’s coldness and his young son’...

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As if to prove the point, there is a little piece about fisheries (un)management on cnews, a Canadian site, accusing British Columbia’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans of [caving to political pressure]http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/06/26/4291752-sun.html and allowing over-fishing. O...

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In survey after survey, English shoppers say they trust supermarkets to deliver high quality produce. Fools. They just aren’t equipped to do so.

Organic carrots bought recently at Waitrose carry a picture of Peter Cornish, one of its “carefully selected growers”, on the back of the pack, but i...

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I have no idea what happened in the last episode of The Sopranos.1 As far as I am concerned, Christopher’s girlfriend has just been befriended by her FBI agent. One day, surely, I’ll catch up. As I caught up with NPR’s Pop Culture podcasts, however, I was struck by just how much attention the ques...

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Fish stories excite me. I don't know why. I can think of few things less interesting than sitting on a riverbank watching a float bob. But scientific investigations of similar topics make my pulse race, maybe because there can be few subjects that so perfectly illustrate the all-too-human inability...

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