Articles tagged "libya"

If you're in the market for getting pregnant, it turns out there are few better times for medical tourism than after your dictator of thirty years is removed through a violent uprising.

Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch released a remarkable report titled "Delivered Into Enemy Hands":http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/05/delivered-enemy-hands It's based on interviews with 14 former detainees of the United States government, mos…

Amateurish films funded by religious fundamentalists aren’t uncommon. But translate them into the language of other religious fundamentalists, and you can spark a hell-storm of murderous fury. Yesterday a chanting crowd of approximately 2,000 Egyp…

If the design virtues of rocket-propelled grenade launchers prove time and again to be ""cheap killer[s] of technology"":http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/feature/on-the-shoulders-of-rebels/26108/ riding, durably, on the shoulders of rebels an…

They're tools for the amateur spy, the would-be dictator toppler, or the determined porn hunter—and they're funded by the U.S. government. It's a new generation of freedom promotion, ushered in with fanfare to succeed or replace the creaking Voice of…

_It turns out smoking hookah is a lot worse for your lungs than previously thought. I guess getting herpes isn't the worst thing to come out of sharing a pipe._ h3. ONE: Synthetic Cells could speed up the creation of vaccines and biofuel-produc

The narration for this promo video for the "Libya Telecom and Technology company":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_Telecom_%26_Technology is so stilted and halting that it's hard to make out more than the generic meaning here: Libya has the interne…