More random links
- Afghan boy suicide bombers tell how they are brainwashed into believing they will survive
- "In the past year, insurgents have used a wave of child suicide bombers, some as young as 10, on the ruthless assumption that small boys can pass through checkpoints and security cordons more easily than men. ... the boys are also assured that they will miraculously survive the devastation they cause." (Mix in other reports of sexual abuse during their training).
- Black Babies, Boys Less Likely to Be Adopted
- "For non-African-American babies, for example, the probability that a prospective adoptive parent expresses interest in such a baby is 11.5 percent if the baby is a girl and 7.9 percent if the baby is a boy. The probability that a non-African-American baby will attract the interest of an adoptive parent is at least seven times as high as the corresponding probability for an African-American baby."
- Shocking example of unintended consequences: Mandatory domestic violence arrests raise death rate 400%, study finds
- To quote Lawrence Sherman of Cambridge University: "It remains to be seen whether democracies can accept these facts as they are, rather than as we might wish them to be"
- Chickens Laying Organic Eggs Eat Imported Food, And It's Pricey
- "The U.S., a soybean superpower, ships conventional soybeans all over the world to feed animals in places like China. Meanwhile, in China, farmers are growing organic soybeans and sending them here. The U.S. now gets more than half of its organic soybeans from abroad. ... Last year, for the first time, the U.S. imported significant amounts of organic corn, too. This also went for animal feed."