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UK airport officials detain, question man for having "Taliban-esque" beard. The kicker, this time: It's James Hetfield.

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Scientologist parents refuse to allow treatment for psychotic daughter, daughter kills father, sister, wounds mother.

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Security testers put water bottle, bomb in carryon luggage at Albany airport.

Water bottle confiscated by security. Bomb waved through.

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No Child Left Behind: In a for-profit school where performance on standardised tests results directly in increased funding, investigations show that poor-performing students are suspended so they "don't count" on the tests, answers are altered by the teachers before they're submitted to the state for marking, copies of the tests are provided in advance, and grades are flatly falsified outright.

And yet, somehow people are still surprised that this kind of behaviour appears when you make standardised test performance, not education, the driving goal of your school.

Wherein I raid james_nicoll for content.

Apparently lead exposure in infants and crime rate are strongly correlated. And by "strongly", I mean "overwhelmingly".

Here, have charts.

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Apparently God hates Left Behind novels as much as anyone with a brain who's read them.

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