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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — “Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.

Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said.

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Nissan Motor said Friday it had created a paint that repairs scratches on its own, restoring a car’s surface to normal within a week.

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Here’s a review of Intelligent Design Textbook: Of Pandas and People. It’s written by Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University. Like everything else, I have to see it to believe it, but it’s an interesting read.

Of Pandas and People
A Brief Critique

Of Pandas and People, which pretends to be an open, objective examination of the pros and cons of evolutionary biology, is actually nothing of the sort. It is, instead, a collection of half-truths, distortions, and outright falsehoods that attempts to misrepresent biology and mislead students as to the scientific status of evolutionary biology.

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“On December 20, 2005, the appeal filed by individual objectors to the Settlement was dismissed and the Settlement is now Final. This means Apple and the Settlement Administrator can move forward with claims administration and claims fulfillment.”

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Suicidal Tendencies
“Institutionalized”
Still Cyco After All These Years [1993]

Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn’t work out the way I wanted to.
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn’t work out the way I wanted to.
It’s like I concentrate real hard and it doesn’t work out
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out
It’s like I need time to figure these things out
But there’s always someone there going

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Along with the Howard Stern Show, another radio endeavor involving alien life forms is going off the air this week; SETI@Home, a grid supercomputer project for detecting signs of extra terrestrial life from deep space, officially ended December 15.

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An excavation project on the Syrian-Iraqi border has uncovered an ancient settlement believed to be settled 8,000 years ago.
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A very cool looking screensaver that resembles Flurry and reacts to sounds picked up through your computer’s mic.

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Sprint Nextel has agreed to buy wireless affiliate Alamosa Holdings for $4.3 billion in cash. The acquisition, announced Monday, includes the assumption of $900 million in debt. Alamosa is based in Lubbock, Texas, and provides Sprint PCS service in 19 states to about 1.49 million wireless subscribers.

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The Department of Defense plans to purchase Sprint Nextel’s iDEN network. One result of this deal will be that Sprint will receive a large amount bandwidth in the 700 and 800Mhz bands, which it will use to offer nationwide mobile WiMax broadband services over the next four to five years.

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