The government auctioned 51 lots of items that once belonged to Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber who killed three people and injured almost two dozen more over 17 years.

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• Museum to retain giant skeleton. Museum chiefs have rejected a suggestion by experts in law and medical ethics that the skeleton of an 18th century man known as the "Irish Giant" should be removed from display and buried at sea. Charles Byrne, originally from County Londonderry, stood just over 7ft 7in tall. He found fame in the 1780s exhibiting himself as a curiosity or "freak" in London.
• The affirmative action myth. By Jeff Jacoby. If racial preferences in higher education were good for racial minorities in higher education, we surely would have seen definitive evidence of it by now. Instead, a widening shelf of empirical research suggests that the opposite is true - that affirmative action in academia is not advancing minority achievement but impeding it.
• Illegal immigrants pay Social Security tax, won't benefit. While many Americans believe illegal immigrants don't pay taxes, billions of dollars deducted from paychecks issued to undocumented workers flow to the Social Security Administration (SSA) every year. Those workers almost certainly will never see that money again.
• The UN mourns the death of Kim Il Sung. The decision by the United Nations to lower its flags to half-mast for the death of Kim Jong Il is a vulgar and all-too-predictable display of that global body's immorality. That an organization ostensibly dedicated to peace and human rights can mourn the death of a brutal dictator who starved an estimated one million of his own people is an offense to common decency and disgraces the UN and the diplomats who ordered the public display of mourning.
• Why can't America's schools be more like Finland's? The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence...Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
• Porn in the library: censorship vs. decency. In November a homeless man was arrested in the Laguna Beach library for allegedly fonding himself while viewing porn, with a crowd of seven other men around him. It's the advent of the Internet, of course, that creates this new scene in the library. Some parents in the town are now calling for the porn sites to be blocked.