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submitted by elvis 175 weeks 5 days 9 hours 49 minutes ago
Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship in the Indian Ocean full of arms bound for Kenya’s military, including dozens of battle tanks, maritime and diplomatic officials said Friday.
Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is infested with pirates, and they have...(more)
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submitted by elvis 186 weeks 2 days 4 hours 21 minutes ago
What if “eating local” in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? And what if skyscrapers grew off the grid, as verdant, self-sustaining towers where city slickers cultivated their own food?
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submitted by elvis 176 weeks 5 days 4 hours 33 minutes ago
John "any opinion any time, just like me" McCain wrote and article over the summer PRAISING the banking system he now condemns and recommending that health insurance be modeled on banking. From the article:
"Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:
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submitted by elvis 167 weeks 10 hours 46 minutes ago
Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective.
If we...(more)
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submitted by elvis 172 weeks 4 days 12 hours 27 minutes ago
The competition was staggering, and for every one on this list, there are five who could just as easily have stood in. Ladies and gentlemen, the very worst of the worst.
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submitted by elvis 172 weeks 4 days 12 hours 14 minutes ago
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson report: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers."
"These kind of tactics have no place...(more)
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submitted by elvis 195 weeks 6 days 13 hours 13 minutes ago
But this morning on NBC's Today show, Cindy McCain declared that she will never release her tax returns -- not during the presidential campaign, and not even if she becomes first lady. "I'm not the candidate," she said.
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submitted by elvis 178 weeks 14 hours 36 minutes ago
AP - A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. No casualties were immediately reported.
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submitted by elvis 228 weeks 3 days 12 hours 5 minutes ago
The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a...(more)
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submitted by elvis 179 weeks 6 days 10 hours 56 minutes ago
When Senator Barack Obama announced in early July that he would give his nomination address in an outdoor stadium in front of 75,000 people, he wowed members of both parties who saw it as an inspired stroke of campaign image making.
But as he landed here on...(more)
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submitted by elvis 157 weeks 12 hours 57 minutes ago
Superior brainpower could be why birds survived the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, suggests a new study of fossil bird brains.
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submitted by elvis 181 weeks 5 days 11 hours 17 minutes ago
President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman on Friday rejected reports that the embattled Pakistani leader was set to resign, even as another ally said back-channel talks were under way on ways to avoid his impeachment.
The spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, also called claims that Musharraf was seeking legal immunity in...(more)
