A class action lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of 87 Christians, Mandaeans, and other persecuted religious minorities from Iran who (through family members in the United States) have applied for refugee status under the Vienna-based Lautenberg-Specter program. The refugee applicants are...
Rabbi Freundel’s Voyeurism Sentence Reduced For Good Behavior
According to the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, the prison sentence of Rabbi Barry Freundel has been shortened by more than a year. Under a plea agreement, in 2015 Freundel was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison on 52 counts of voyeurism. Freundel had secretly...
The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder
The arrest of a suspect has set off alarms among some scientists and ethicists worried that consumer DNA may be widely accessed by law enforcement. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/health/dna-privacy-golden-state-killer-genealogy.html?partner=rss
For Cancer Centers, Proton Therapy’s Promise Is Undercut by Lagging Demand
Hospitals and private investors keep pumping vast sums of money into an advanced type of radiology whose effectiveness, in many cases, has not yet been shown to justify its price. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/business/proton-therapy-finances.html?partner=rss
Tahini and Date Coconut Smoothie Recipe
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! You know how sometimes, in the morning, you feel you should eat something because it would give you energy, but you’re not actually that hungry? Or maybe you need to get out of the house early, and you would rather have something later, when...
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