"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
"SAN BERNARDINO, July 11, 2008 (Cheetah Index)-The Malawi Expo says it is overwhelmingly impressed with the turn out at Malawi Expo 2008 which commenced from Tuesday July 1-3, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel in San...
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Ahh...the sadness. Yet another Hollywood Icon destroyed by racism and ethnocentricity. Maybe Mel and Brigitte should talk...perhaps they can find a good Jewish psychologist."French former film star...
Certainly Updates and more on this story are welcome."Olympic terrorist plot foiled: ChinaIan Ransom and Benjamin Kang Lim, ReutersPublished: Thursday, April 10, 2008BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities...
The Australians must have a unique sense of humour. However, this is a good policy, worthy of emulation."Australian coal miners are being given lessons in foreplay and the menopause in an attempt to boost...
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"In the second of two pieces examining Iran's rising regional role, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb* argues that attempts by "moderate" Arab leaders to whip up popular fear of Iran are US-orchestrated and aimed to keep in-check regional resistance to US-Israeli plans
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Anger in Baghdad as Americans finish wall
Last Updated: 2:04am BST 03/05/2007
American forces have completed construction of a concrete wall around the Baghdad district of Adhamiya despite protests from the Iraqi prime minister and local residents who claim that they are...
"Someday, when the war in Iraq has become a historical episode, we will tally up the lessons learned-if, that is, we ever learn any. Here are two worth mastering because failing to do so probably means we will no longer exist.
Lesson 1. Nation-building in a war zone is...
Britain's tanning industry--which is largely unregulated--is allowing for younger and younger users to have access to coin-operated tanning salons without supervision. This unfettered access is leading to a huge...
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"Proceedings have begun in London courts against two companies for allegedly running unlicensed software on office computers, following an investigation by the UK arm of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
A claim has been issued in the High Court against ACT, a global...
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over
Saddam Hussein's neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. They went to bed as new video...
For the traveling Pontiff, it was not a laid-back Turkish holiday. The citizens of the proud, predominantly Muslim nation had no love of Popes. To the East, the Iranian government was galvanizing anti-Western feeling. The news reported that an escaped killer was on the loose,...