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In his first critical remarks about the government response to the financial market crisis, Barack Obama said Sunday that the Bush administration has “offered a concept with a staggering price tag, not a plan.”
“We must work quickly in a bipartisan fashion to resolve this crisis to...(more)
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submitted by elvis 224 weeks 6 days 12 hours 33 minutes ago
Whoa, this is scary -- robotic military cannons malfunctioning... From the story: "Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army's Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in the Northern Cape, as part of an annual force preparation endeavour.
Mangope told The...(more)
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In his Cairo address, the president speaks of 'a new beginning' and touches on hot-button issues including Israel and Palestine, human rights and the drawdown of troops in Iraq. President Obama, calling for "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world," said...(more)
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submitted by elvis 150 weeks 2 days 12 hours 31 minutes ago
OK, I don't know how to categorize this, but it's just amazing and funny. It's extreme shepherding...
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submitted by elvis 135 weeks 6 days 9 hours 22 minutes ago
A paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science by Bent Sørensen of the University of Roskilde in Denmark, discusses how European Neanderthals living in the Eemian interglacial, dated to around 125,000 years bp might have conserved much needed energy by drying and storing meat, wearing fitted...(more)
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submitted by elvis 160 weeks 6 days 5 hours 22 minutes ago
Not the most dramatic, but captures the vibe.
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submitted by elvis 164 weeks 6 days 8 hours 42 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A $14 billion auto industry bailout bill stalled in the Senate on Thursday, and Republicans demanded upfront concessions from the United Auto Workers as the price for support needed for passage. UAW officials were in talks with key lawmakers, congressional officials said, although...(more)
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submitted by elvis 133 weeks 5 days 13 hours 47 minutes ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - In apparent defiance of Iran's supreme leader, a powerful cleric declared his country in crisis after a disputed poll, and tens of thousands of protesters used Friday prayers to stage the biggest show of dissent for weeks.
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submitted by elvis 151 weeks 6 days 8 hours 9 minutes ago
Genentech Inc., the 1976 Bay area startup that became a powerful catalyst of the global biotechnology industry for more than three decades, has agreed to be acquired for $95 a share by its majority shareholder, Swiss drugmaker Roche. The two companies said...
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submitted by elvis 194 weeks 2 days 22 hours 35 minutes ago
A state news agency says more than 200 relief workers have been buried by a mudslide in Sichuan province.
The Xinhua News Agency on Monday did not immediately have any other details of the accident.
The Chinese government has estimated that the May 12 earthquake killed as many...(more)
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submitted by elvis 149 weeks 6 days 14 hours 57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy shrank at a 6.3 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and probably isn't doing much better now.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces sealed off Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 80 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.
