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Anti-semitism Masquerading as History

http://www.adl.org/holocaust/introduction.asp

From the Anti-Defamation League, a response to those Holocaust deniers who say that the Nazi massacre of Europe’s Jews never happened or otherwise try to excuse or explain it all away.

Etnia Negra de Panamá

http://www.etnianegrapanama.org/

A Spanish-language site by and about Panama’s peoples of African ancestry. You may not realize this from looking at the faces that our ad industry chooses to represent Panama, but blacks greatly outnumber whites in this country.

Medical Marijuana

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm

Some basic facts about the medical uses of this drug, which is illegal in most places. The medicinal properties of marijuana have been known since ancient times, but good research on the risks and benefits inherent in its use is clouded by the massive amounts of pseudo-scientific "investigation" that starts out not with an open mind, but in search of evidence to back the status quo of prohibition. A fair-minded point of departure would be that the stuff almost certainly has medically useful properties, and that its smoke is almost certainly is full of carcinogens and can be expected to harm the heart and lungs and most likely other organs.

The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

http://www.benfranklin300.com/

It has been 300 years since one of the Renaissance men of the American Revolution was born. The bowdlerized version of his autobiography that they let you read in high school didn't tell you the half of what an amazing man Ben Franklin was.

The Brain from the Top to the Bottom

http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html

From McGill University, and introduction to the human brain. Does this explain what’s wrong with the editor of The Panama News? And is there any possibility at all that the line in that old David Bowie song "Five Years" --- about how "my brain hurts a lot" --- could be scientifically accurate?