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"Mad Men" and "Damages" made Emmy history Thursday as the first basic-cable series to be nominated for best drama. ...
China warns Dalai Lama not to disrupt Beijing Olympics
Even after rounds of peace talks with Tibetan representatives China had warned Dalai Lama and exhorted him to keep away from Olympic games."After latest fence-mending talks on Tibet issue that failed to make any... Calgary happy hour gets shorter - AFTER Stampede
Another gigantic parade wove its way through Calgary today opening another 10 days of Calgary Stampede featuring bucking broncs, tourists from everywhere, street dancing and cheap drinks in never-ending happy hours.... Clarke to propose curbing power of Welsh, Scottish MPs
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know "Pigs will Fly" if any Government had the balls to even touch this with a 10 foot oil dipstick." U.S. lawmakers urged to curb oil speculators Price would fall to... New FDA Rules Will Curb Drug Industry Profiteering
"Former Officer Worries New FDA Rules Will Curb Drug Industry Profiteering– By Martha Rosenberg""The "bully tactics" and "intimidation" of drug industry operatives could cause "thousands of additional cancer deaths," cries an angry doctor in a May 29 oped in the Wall Street...Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study
Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found." Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with...Gruesome ad campaign showing bloody stab victims launched by Government to cu...
An incredibly gruesome new ad campaign has been launched in the UK showing children bloody stab wounds in order to deter knife crime. Warning: the images are very disturbing and not SFW."Children will be targeted... 'Flintstones' protest EU emissions proposal
"Fred and Wilma Flintstone' were arrested today as they approached the European Parliament to protest over the influence of the car industry on proposals to curb carbon dioxide emissions from cars.Six... McCain rips Bush record on warming
Now that he has spent the last few months courting his party's base with promises on conservative pet issues such as remaining in Iraq what kind of supreme court justices he would appoint, McCain has turned to...Israeli Nukes: Example of Global Hypocrisy
"Iran on Monday rejected pressure to submit to intrusive nuclear inspections, claiming it is unfair to subject Iran to such pressure while Israel is outside the global treaty to curb atomic weapons. "The existing...Indonesian masseuses told to padlock pants:
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"By the time this summer rolls around, Boulder residents might be able to put their kitchen scraps, grass clippings and yard waste out on the curb to be picked up and made into compost rather than going to the landfill. That's because trash haulers who now have to make two...
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