- Black students ordered to give up seats to white children
[Shreveport Times] Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
- Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List
[NYT] Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.
(tags: right-nuttery news biology)
- Jet alert suspects ‘to be freed’
[BBC] Too bad: we have to let the brown dudes go. Got to hassle them though!
- US backs morning-after pill sales
[BBC] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive pill after three years of controversy.
- U.S. sues state, Verizon to block NSA revelations
The federal government filed a lawsuit against state officials and Verizon Communications Monday to prevent the release of information about the company’s alleged role in the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program.
(tags: NSA-spying news)
- New Stem Cell Method Avoids Destroying Embryos
[NYT] Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a method that, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to stem cell research.
(tags: news)
- Deported Man Was Actually U.S. Citizen
[MyWayNews via RawStory] "In effect, the government is arguing that an innocent man who was wrongly convicted should not be released from the custody of the United States," U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn wrote. He ruled that Perez never should have been deported.
(tags: news immigration law-enforcement)
- 12 arrested after Northwest Airlines turned back – Aug 23, 2006
[CNN] Arrested for unbuckling seat belt and using cell phones! Not much until you consider clincher: they were brown!
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