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Mexican demonstrators blockade Televisa studios over election scandal | World news | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1816 TWEETS
Thousands of protesters have blockaded the studios of Televisa, Mexico's most popular TV network, accusing it of biased coverage of the 1 July presidential election. Shouting "Tell the truth," the demonstrators, including students and union work
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The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal | Ben Goldacre | Business | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1791 TWEETS
Reboxetine is a drug I have prescribed. Other drugs had done nothing for my patient, so we wanted to try something new. I'd read the trial data before I wrote the prescription, and found only well-designed, fair tests, with overwhelmingly positive results
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre
Why our food is making us fat | Business | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1775 TWEETS
Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain's first obese man, painted in 1806. Daniel Lambert weighed 53st (335kg) and was considered a medical oddity. Too heavy to work, Lambert came up with a
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat?CMP=twt_gu
US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans | "Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed themselves than died in combat." Guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1765 TWEETS
Libby Busbee is pretty sure that her son William never sat through or read Shakespeare's Macbeth, even though he behaved as though he had. Soon after he got back from his final tour of Afghanistan, he began rubbing his hands over and over and constantly r
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/01/us-military-suicide-epidemic-veteran
Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres | World news | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1757 TWEETS
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Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children' | Books | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1746 TWEETS
Maurice Sendak looks like one of his own creations: beady eyes, pointy eyebrows, the odd monsterish tuft of hair and a reputation for fierceness that makes you tip-toe up the path of his beautiful house in Connecticut like a child in a fairytale. Sendak h
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Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'? www.guardian.co.uk 1743 TWEETS
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Creationist groups win Michael Gove's approval to open free schools | Education | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1735 TWEETS
The education secretary, Michael Gove, has approved three free schools run by groups with creationist views, including one with a document on its website declaring that it teaches "creation as a scientific theory".Grindon Hall Christian school i
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/creationist-groups-approval-free-schools
Mexican media scandal: secretive Televisa unit promoted PRI candidate | World news | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1721 TWEETS
A secretive unit inside Mexico's predominant television network set up and funded a campaign for Enrique Peña Nieto, who is the favourite to win Sunday's presidential election, according to people familiar with the operation and documents seen by the Guar
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/26/mexican-media-scandal-televisa-pri-nieto?CMP=twt_gu
Muslim Brotherhood fell 'below expectations' in Libyan elections | World news | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1687 TWEETS
A senior member of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood has conceded that its Justice and Construction party had fallen short of expectations, after early election results gave victory to its more secularist rival, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).The bulk of
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/10/muslim-brotherhood-expectations-libyan-election?CMP=twt_gu
Mali rebels fleeing Timbuktu burn library full of ancient manuscripts | World news | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1682 TWEETS
Islamist insurgents retreating from the ancient Saharan city of Timbuktu have set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless ancient manuscripts, some dating back to the 13th century, in what the town's mayor described as a "devastating blow
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-library-ancient-manuscripts
Badger cull 'mindless', say scientists | Environment | The Observer www.guardian.co.uk 1681 TWEETS
Britain's top animal disease scientists have launched a devastating attack on the government's "mindless" badger cull, accusing ministers of failing to tell the truth and demanding the immediate abandonment of the killings.The intervention by do
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/13/badger-cull-mindless
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk 1674 TWEETS
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but h
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo
Sugar, not fat, exposed as deadly villain in obesity epidemic | Society | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1666 TWEETS
Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading US doctor who is taking on governments and th
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/20/sugar-deadly-obesity-epidemic
Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial | World news | The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk 1659 TWEETS
Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.Human rights groups accused the pr
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/15/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama
Climate debate cut from national curriculum for children up to 14 | Environment www.guardian.co.uk 1643 TWEETS
Debate about climate change has been cut out of the national curriculum for children under 14, prompting claims of political interference in the syllabus by the government that has failed "our duty to future generations".The latest draft guideli
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/17/climate-change-cut-national-curriculum
