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15:24 UK time, Thursday, 14 April 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.Ìý
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The New York Times' most read article . Investigator in health policy Gary Taubes concludes at the end ofÌýnine pages thatÌýhe's still confused:
"I'd like to eat it in moderation. I’d certainly like my two sons to be able to eat it in moderation, to not overconsume it, but I don’t actually know what that means and I’ve been reporting on this subject and studying it for more than a decade."
Readers of Australia's the Courier are catching up on a . "High-profile indigenous" lawyer Larissa Behrendt tweeted that sex with a horse was less offensive than the Aboriginal leader Bess Price who supports intervention in the Northern Territory.
Ms Behrendt, a professor of law and indigenous studies at the University of Technology, Sydney and of Aboriginal heritage, is also suing newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt for racial hatred.
The article by Gary Johns from the Australian Catholic University argues that there are double standards in how the Racial Discrimination Act is used. He says Aborigines have carried out "20 years of racial hatred, against the white man".
Slate's most popular article asks given some of them were enormous. It admits to having its mind "in the gutter" but then finds out that paleontologists know very little about how dinosaurs mated, because soft tissue rarely appears in fossils. Further down the article we don't get any closer to the answer as "unfortunately, we know almost nothing about the size of other, more intimate dinosaur parts". Apparently it is an area of ongoing debate among paleontologists who "can't agree on very much".
Proving popular on Xinhua Net is an article about a . The site reports an international team of astronomers announced they've discovered the oldest galaxy, formed 13.55 billion years ago. Johan Richard, the lead author of the new study said that they have discovered a distant galaxy that began forming stars just 200 million years after the Big Bang. This, he says, challenges theories of how soon galaxies formed and evolved in the first years of the Universe.
Ali Abunimah's opinion piece about is popular on al-Jazeera. Mr Abunimah is a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network. He argues that the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to push for statehood are "nothing more than an elaborate farce". He says Palestinians should not be distracted by "this international theatre of the absurd" but instead should focus on building campaigns to "end Israeli apartheid".
