JAFFNA, Sri Lanka ? Voters in Sri Lanka’s northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations Saturday to elect local councils following the country’s long civil war. The local elections have assumed unprecedented national significance, with some ethnic Tamil political party leaders saying a victory would be a mandate to press for self-rule in the South [...]

This photo provided Jan. 10, 2012, by the Franklin County Sheriff?s Department shows firefighters battling a blaze from a shake-and-bake meth lab explosion Jan. 29, 2010, at a house in Union, Mo. The crude new method of making methamphetamine, by combining raw and unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle, poses a risk even to [...]

Note: this is the first of three parts of the essay. The other two parts will be published over the next two days (see links at the bottom of the page). H. Floris Cohen in his recent book ?How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough?, according to a blurb, has [...]

Getty Images Several of his players expect Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan to leave Dallas and become a head coach elsewhere. ?I definitely believe so,? Cowboys safety Abram Elam told the Dallas Morning News. ?I think Rob should?ve been a head coach. I believe that?s his dream and he?s definitely been preparing himself for that. [...]

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