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David Beckham shakes off foot injury, controversy as he chases MLS Cup with ...
Nov 21st, 2009 - NY Daily News
SEATTLE - Whatever storm clouds that had been brewing between David Beckham and Landon Donovan on the Los Angeles Galaxy this past summer have all but been abated. The...
Pap smear screening controversy inflames health care debate
Nov 21st, 2009 - NECN
(NECN/ABC news) - For the second time this week, new guidelines urge women to get less screening for cancer. "We're more concerned that people are getting over-treated than we are about missing cervical cancer," said Dr...
In Daley's jab at media -- ' people will leave' -- did he mean himself?
Nov 21st, 2009 - Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley's decision to blame the media for Oprah Winfrey's career-altering choice to pull the plug on her syndicated talk show after her 25th season is preposterous...
Handball Touches on Sportsmanship and Instant Replay
Nov 20th, 2009 - New York Times
A day later, the Thierry Henry handball controversy has spun off into something entirely different from Thursday's woe-to-Ireland, Henry-the-thief themes. Now, it's a lively discussion of sportsmanship. Henry kicked this off all on his own...
Replay 'fairest solution' says Henry
Nov 20th, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- Thierry Henry believes a replay would be the "fairest solution" after his handball set up France's clinching goal in their World Cup playoff with the Republic of Ireland. As the controversy showed no signs of abating on Friday...

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NEW MOON CONTROVERSY
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Facebook controversy
Facebook reversed course, changing its new controversial terms of service back after a big backlash.
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Prachi Desai Ekta Kapoor Controversy
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Cadaver Controversy
The Orlando Science Center exhibit, Our Body: The Universe Within and the success and controversy surrounding cadaver exhibitions around the country.

Controversy from WikiPedia:

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of opinion, but sometimes the allegation that a matter of scientific fact is no better than opinion or even religious belief, as in the controversy between evolutionary biology and Creationism or Intelligent Design. Sam Cooper coined the word circa 1384 from Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus - "turned in an opposite direction," from contra - "against" - and vertere - to turn, or versus (see verse), hence, "to turn against."

Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real (true) information available." In other words, the fewer facts are known to and agreed on by the participants, the more controversy there is, and the more is known the less controversy there is.