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Serial Criminals Behave Like Animals

Studies on bees, fish and animal predators help police and profilers catch criminals - and vice versa.
The method is called “geographic profiling” and it starts from the premise that like animals, serial killers like to create a “safe” zone around their habitat and travel to more distant locations to commit crimes.
“They want to operate in [...]

10Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Zaha Hadid - the Design Sorceress

She’s the first woman to ever receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize – architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. In 2008 Zaha Hadid is the most famous woman architect in the world, the first who made her way to the top alone in what many still consider to be a “men’s world.”
Zaha’s story is amazing and [...]

4Jul2008 | Mihaela Lica | 5 comments | Continued
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Stonehenge Unravelled - Burial Of The Mighty

Stonehenge has been a place of mystery and interest for millennium. Recently archaeologists at the University of Sheffield studied radio carbon dated human cremation remains indicating that the monument was used as a cemetery around 3000 B.C. The archaeological team of Professor Mike Parker-Pearson and Professor Andrew Chamberlain believe that the cremation burials studied [...]

31May2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Women in Modern-Day Combat

Long gone are the days when women in combat only nursed soldiers on the battlefield, carried water, cooked, laundered clothes and served as saboteurs, as they pave their way into history in modern-day combat. Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 90,000 women have served in the U.S. armed forces as fighter pilots, medics, military police, [...]

21Apr2008 | Deborah Petersen | 0 comments | Continued