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Comment Re:Pointed Hypocrasy (Score 1) 829

My wife works with international HIV/AIDS programs, and they call PEPFAR Bush's only success. It has terrible things in it, like the abstinence-only education you mention, but it provides a significant amount of money for infrastructure, health workers, etc., and represents a serious increase in commitment by the United States. It has obvious faults, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If the next president were to just cut aid because it's impossible to pass it without throwing bones to our fundamentalists, we'd be worse off.

The Dolphin With Leftover Legs 441

ectotherm writes "Japanese scientists have captured a dolphin with vestigial legs. Evidence, it would seem, of a land-dwelling past and observable evolution." From the article: "Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin alive off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi. Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared. Whale and dolphin fetuses also show signs of hind protrusions but these generally disappear before birth."

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