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Shell Oil Company achieves 376.59 mpg in test car- 1973!
"Indianapolis (IN) - Using fully stock production gasoline engine powered vehicles, with engine modifications limited only to changes in fuel mixture and ignition timing, Shell Oil Company served host to an open...
160 Million Nelson Mandelas
" Newsweek called Pakistan “the most dangerous nation in the world.” Western media calls Pakistan “a power-keg waiting to explode,” while their military describes us as “being in a fight for our national existence.” The world that we all claw and...
“Today’s terrorist is today’s and tomorrow’s murderer”: Resolving v...
"“There is a false and foolish and evil saying that today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s freedom fighter. Today’s terrorist is today’s and tomorrow’s murderer.” These were the words used by the former Foreign Minister of Australia Alexander Downer while delivering...
Toronto considering ban on paper coffee cups
" Toronto considering ban on paper coffee cups Module body Mon Sep 15, 8:40 AM ... 
created by blacktryst | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Dominican leader urges Wall Street-style ‘bail-out’ to reach UN poverty g...
" 24 September 2008 – President Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic today called on the world’s richest countries to provide the same emergency funding to achieve the United Nations Millennium...
Democrats adopt goal of health care guarantee
" Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.Obama, soon to be the...
Change We Can, Change We Shall says Maldives politician
"MUSING ON INDEPENDENCE Today is our 43rd Independence Day. I am sitting at home, enjoying a rare day with my family. Just now, the children are playing with their cousins as my little nephew is celebrating his...
Bin Laden's driver found guilty in a split verdict
"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. A...
In Beijing, Blue Skies Prove Hard to Achieve
BEIJING — Less than two weeks before the Olympics, Beijing’s skies are so murky and polluted that the authorities are considering emergency measures during the Games beyond the traffic restrictions and factory...
Torture? We Don’t Know What Real Torture Is!
Opinion" [LINK to video of "tortured" Canadian boy who fought for al Qaeda, watch this first and then read.] Truthfully, I have been questioned much harder by school administrators than this kid, who quite possibly killed an American soldier, was. [Side note: the school... 
Eritrea: Isaias Afwerki on the Path to Chaos
"It is now official: the ruling regime has spilled Eritrean blood fighting all our neighbors: Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In every case, the hot-headed and impulsive actions of the ruling regime harmed the interest of Eritrea and diminished its reputation. And in...
A Cambridge First for the anorexic girl given just hours to live
" After graduating from Cambridge University with a starred First Class degree, Mandy Kaye has the world at her feet. She achieved the highest possible grade, the only student in her faculty to do so. But she...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Mediterranean Union Launches
French President Nikolas Sarkozy has opened the first summit meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean. Similar to the EU but with a looser grouping, the body will focus on energy, security, trade, and... 
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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407 views | 24 recommendations | 5 comments
