"AARP WALKS OUT ON PROTESTING SENIOR CITIZENS...AND CITIZENS TAKE OVER. (Note also, AARP has failed to notify seniors about the pending $400 or more billion cut to Medicare spending and the associated cuts to...
Zimbabwe Declares Cholera Emergency BARRY BEARAK Published: December 4, 2008 JOHANNESBURG — The Zimbabwean Health Minister, David Parirenyatwa, has declared the nation’s...
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"The Rasmussen daily poll has Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama tied, with both pulling 48 percent of likely voters."Although recent polls have become more confusing each day as Americans struggle to choose a...
" DOZENS of students as young as 11 stumbled across steamy images of their male teacher during an innocent web search. The teacher's Facebook site carried an image of a hand down the front of one man's pants...
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As private multinationals continue struggle for the control os strategic raw materials, Indonesian Bumi wins biding over Chinese and Australian Heral Resource to control zinc and lead at Dairi mines. According to this FT article, "Zinc and lead prices have...
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled an ambitious scheme to close a section of Braodway to motor traffic. The newly-liberated stretch of asphalt will run from Times Square (42nd St) to Herald Square (36th St). This project, as well as Bloomberg's failed...
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As Zimbabwe announces that it will start a renewed crackdown on opposition leaders, lawmakers and activists in the coming days, South Africa's ruling party has turned on the pressure.."African National Congress leaders have urged President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to...
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" OIL giant Mobil could be forced to close its Altona refinery when the Rudd Government introduces a carbon emissions trading scheme. The closure of the refinery, which supplies half of Victoria's fuel needs, would cut competition and could push up petrol prices. Company...
Italy grab the second spot to face Spain in quarter finals. France and Romania crash out, and the Dutch top the group unbeaten and looking strong to go into the next phase. France have had a nightmare Euro, a long...
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" AUTHORITIES are investigating how a baby girl was left alone inside a locked childcare centre after it closed for the day.A Sydney father, identified by the Sydney Morning Herald only as Bharat , said that when he went to pick up his one-year-old daughter Ankita from the...
***OPINION***"And they’re down to the wire, racing neck and neck. Who’s it going to be? Jindal? Crist? Or maybe Pawlenty?Ah heck, who knows. All we do know, or at least what I think I know, is that John...
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After many years, it would appear charges are being brought against alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks. "A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for allegedly conspiring in the...
A man from Illinois, Steve Kreuscher, wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name to 'In God We Trust'."Kreuscher (CROY'-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough...
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"The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asked Colombia's main leftist guerrilla group to ''share its experience in guerrilla warfare,'' citing a possible U.S. invasion, according to documents obtained by The Miami Herald.A senior Colombian official said the...
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