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Many of the more “progressive” among us here in America see Europe as an example of where the United States needs to be in terms of its social policies. And given that social trends in Europe so often seem to presage things here, for better or worse, let’s have a look at some of the more recent “progressive” developments on the European social front. In January of this year the European Union passed a resolution banning “homophobia”. Entitled “Homophobia in Europe”, the resolution condemns homophobia as an “irrational fear and aversion of homosexuality and of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

Scorpion bigger than human described Nov. 30, 2005 Courtesy Nature and World Science staff A geologist working in Scotland has uncovered footprints that he says come from a fearsome water scorpion bigger than a human. The Desert Hairy Scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis (Courtesy Imagers NASA Science Education) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The tracks were made about 330 million years ago by a six-legged creature called Hibbertopterus, according to Martin Whyte of the University of Sheffield, U.K. Hibbertopterus was some 1.6 metres (5¼ feet) long and a metre (3¼ feet) wide, he added. The tracks show that this now-extinct group of animals, previously thought to...