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POPSAn American in Albania ...The Albanians of Montenegro were lucky, I thought as we approached the customs agents, to live under Josip Broz Tito's relatively lenient communist system in Yugoslavia instead of suffering Enver Hoxha's full-bore Stalinist regime just a few miles away in Albania proper. Hoxha, who ranks among the most thoroughly oppressive tyrants in history, made Tito's dictatorship look libertarian....
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POPSHow Tattoos Work The tattoo machine has remained relatively unchanged since its invention by Samuel O'Reilly in the late 1800s. O'Reilly based his design on the autographic printer, an engraving machine invented by Thomas Edison. Edison created the printer to engrave hard surfaces. O’Reilly modified Edison’s machine by changing the tube system and modifying its rotary-driven electromagnetic oscillating unit to enable the machine to drive the needle.
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POPSMars Soil Resembles Veggie-Garden Dirt What kind of life can persist in the atmosphere thousand times less dense, planet-wide dust storms and average (!) temperature -63 grad.C? Primitive bacterial? As on Earth poles.
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POPSSamsung Unveils Another iPhone Competitor In an interesting choice of timing, Samsung unveiled this slick touchscreen phone Monday morning, just before Apple's debut of the 3G iPhone. Also interesting: Samsung already has an iPhone competitor--its Instinct, which will launch on Sprint on June 20. The two phones could be part of a broader global strategy, with the Omnia targeting Asia and Europe.
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POPSObama Team Responds to McCain 'Town Meeting' Proposal A follow up to an an earlier post in which I wondered if McCain had polling showing trouble. That Obama would be open to debates should surprise no one -- for one, Obama needs headlines about something other than Hillary Clinton and the primaries. Still, this is all hypothetical at this point.
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POPSHow Earth Resembles a Gooey Confection LiveScience says Earth's simple schematic is not core, mantle, and crust anymore. It is more like the gooey center of a chocolate morsel harboring peanut butter and honey. Inner Earth is far more nuanced than outward appearances would suggest. A new model is proposed in the May 2, 2008, issue of the journal Science.
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