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North Korea allegedly sinks South Korean Navy vessel. South Korea responds by withholding coverage of the World Cup this summer. Sounds reasonable.

Former TIH guest Naomi Klein evaluates Evo Morales’ stance on climate change and how it could impact global environmental policy.

“On the Charlie Rose programme in January, he recounted a story about a lecture he delivered in Israel a year before his appointment, telling of his involvement in Northern Ireland. Asked afterwards by a member of the audience about the length of the Northern Ireland conflict, Mitchell confirmed it had been 800 years. His questioner [...]

There are more doctors and patients asking questions about the necessity of CT scans and xrays.  Whistleblowers are losing their jobs over this one, which probably means there is some truth to it. The practice of limiting radiation to children has been relatively widespread in the world of pediatrics and now becoming more common in [...]

Caterpillar Inc didn’t wait long to start belly-aching about the cost of health care reform.   But their numbers involve some accounting slight of hand, according to David Greising of the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/28cncpulse.html

Former guest Dave Zirin and Sherry Jones weigh in on the recent controversy caused by athlete Caster Semenya due to the possibility that she is ‘intersex.’ http://edgeofsports.com/2010-04-02-514/index.html

Follow this logic, and the patenting of human, animal, and plant genes is completely absurd and causes a chilling effect on research: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/03/ben-goldacre-gene-patents