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Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes
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host on 14 November, 2007 12:51:00
 
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female
victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported
on Thursday

Jim Watson, Nobel-winning biologist apologizes for remarks about blacks
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Staff Researcher on 18 October, 2007 11:56:00
 
Jim Watson won nobel prize in 1962 for discovering DNA structure "The Double
Helix".  Over the years he made lots of controversial remarks. This time he got
caught by making another racial remarks in an interview with the Sunday Times.
CNN International reports "His comments were met with an avalanche of criticism,
and London's Science Museum canceled Watson's planned Friday appearance, saying
his remarks had "gone beyond the point of acceptable debate."