Girl Survives 14-Storey Chimney Fall

A twelve-year-old girl fell down 14 storeys' worth of chimney, lanidng in a heap of soot. Sh eemerged with only an injured hip. The incident took place as the girl was showing off the rooftop view that her building boasted, and fell into the chimney after climbing a service...

Developing nations need $50 billion per year to adapt to climate change

""We need adaptation or we will die," Dinanath Bhandari of the Nepal Practical Action Network said.The Nepalese people have begun to feel the impact of climate change caused by developed nations, he said.Rachel Berger, climate change policy adviser working for the Practical...

Bountiful Polygamists OK For Now

 Polygamists in Bountiful, B.C. will not be prosecuted at this time but the question of the boundaries of religious freedom is a big one.  Although polygamy has long been illegal in Canada, prosecutions are rare and convictions extremely unlikely.  Lawyers say...

Consuming Australia: the high price of our spending

"Consuming Australia: the high price of our spending Date: 8-Jul-2007 People living in Australia's wealthiest inner-city suburbs are responsible for more than double the amount of greenhouse pollution than households in less affluent areas, because of their high levels of...

Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

"With the war in Afghanistan and Iraq reducing oil capacity, and with projected peak oil reserves waining by 2020 the new gold rush in oil was being pushed by the US. With their eyes on the prize of Alaskan Oil the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline once again became an economically...

9-11 Commission may not have perused pilfered papers in berger's pants

"WASHINGTON — Some classified documents that were unlawfully removed from the National Archives three years ago may never have reached their intended destination — the Sept. 11 commission, a House Republican report concluded Tuesday. The report contradicted Justice...

Worse than Watergate

Why is robbing national security documents less important than robbing campaign documents?"President Clinton’s Former National Security Advisor was caught stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives (before the 9/11 Commission could read them),...

More on Virgil Goode’s letter

"Liberal blogger Justin Rood is doing his best to stir up a reaction to Virgina Republican Virgil Goode’s immigration worries, outlined in a letter released earlier this week. I suspect he’s not going to have a lot of luck on the Friday before Christmas, but with an...

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