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submitted by elvis 156 weeks 6 days 9 hours 56 minutes ago
It's closing time at a market in Belleville, a working-class neighborhood in Paris, and a young woman in a black parka and white cap is rummaging through the abandoned crates.
After a thorough inspection, she slips a cauliflower and some slightly squashed oranges into her shopping bag.
"That's...(more)
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submitted by elvis 174 weeks 6 hours 33 minutes ago
Conservative pundits and bloggers expressed outrage Wednesday over John McCain’s plan for the federal government to spend $300 billion to buy up troubled mortgages, announced during his debate with Barack Obama Tuesday night.
“Last night, he took that position on the housing issue of buying up everybody's...(more)
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submitted by elvis 157 weeks 12 hours 58 minutes ago
Britain may be in the grip of the coldest winter for 30 years and grappling with up to a foot of snow in some places but the extreme weather is entirely consistent with global warming claim scientists.
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submitted by elvis 167 weeks 10 hours 49 minutes ago
Federal authorities are warning law enforcement personnel of a possible terror plot against the New York City subway and train systems during the holiday season, and police are beefing up security in preparation.
An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says the FBI has received a...(more)
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submitted by elvis 154 weeks 3 days 11 hours 10 minutes ago
"Empty," says Jack Rodman, an expert in distressed real estate, as he points from the window of his 40th-floor office toward a silver-skinned prism rising out of the Beijing skyline.
"Beautiful building, but not a single tenant.
"Completely empty.
"Empty."
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submitted by elvis 177 weeks 5 days 5 hours 11 minutes ago
Here's something that could complicate the McCain-Palin reform message a bit: It turns out that McCain's national finance co-chair, Wayne Berman, is a paid lobbyist, and has been one for years, for two of the oil companies that are at the center of the sex, drugs...(more)
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submitted by elvis 175 weeks 5 days 10 hours 15 minutes ago
As John McCain heads South after a dramatic, thus far failed attempt to lead the effort in Washington to craft a bailout bill, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is seeking to cast McCain’s high-stakes political gamble as a failure of temperament.
Obama’s national press secretary, Bill Burton,...(more)
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submitted by elvis 176 weeks 6 days 10 hours 10 minutes ago
Money market funds have been among the few places that investors could put their cash and sleep peacefully.
At the moment, that is not necessarily true.
On Tuesday, the Reserve Primary Fund, a giant money market fund whose parent helped invent that investment, said its customers would...(more)
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submitted by elvis 170 weeks 3 days 52 minutes ago
A new national poll suggests that Sarah Palin may be hurting John McCain more than she's helping him.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Sunday indicates that McCain's running mate is growing less popular among voters and may be costing the Republican presidential nominee a few crucial...(more)
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submitted by elvis 138 weeks 3 days 13 hours 35 minutes ago
I've known a lot of Iranians and I can tell you that the nutjobs running the country aren't representative of the average Iranian. They're a good, sophisticated and honest people. So I weep for what's happening there now.
This amazing video from Italian TV shows one of...(more)
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submitted by elvis 151 weeks 6 days 8 hours 16 minutes ago
Driven by global warming, the ocean is expected to rise nearly 5 feet along California's coastline by the end of the century, hitting San Francisco Bay the hardest of all, according to a state study released Wednesday. Nearly half a million people and $100...
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submitted by elvis 179 weeks 5 days 9 hours 12 minutes ago
Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.
Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers discovered the stone ruins...(more)
