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Democracy is something we can never take for granted. Like cancer within the human body authoritarianism is ever present, ever trying to take control. — 419 words.
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• Group of Eight: “China has evinced not the slightest desire to join an organization that it sees as a club of losers, an association of sunset powers solemnly gathered to discuss their fading glory.”
• Emerging countries “ . . . have employed some mix of free markets and state capitalism, rejecting equally the dogmas of Marx and Adam Smith.”
Eric Kraus writes, “At the beginning of the decade, when I first argued that Russia was moving toward an alliance with China, this was met with derision.” — 1,184 words.
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You can pack an awful lot of information in — 43 words.
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(It’s the desk that’s geriatric not Wendy Asman. Judge Wright’s age is for him to tell. – ed.) — 38 words plus two balloons.
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It's been a rough start to the fall for British farmers, with reports of sporadic cases of BSE (mad cow disease) and more cases of foot-and-mouth disease. And then on Friday, British public health officials officially pronounced an outbreak of bluetongue disease among the nation's cattle. So what makes British cattle so sickly? — 497 words.
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NOT GREEN: Norway has banned ads that say cars such as this Toyota Prius are "clean" or environmentally friendly".
Prove 'clean, green' ads, Norway tells automakers
Norway's consumer ombudsman has targeted automakers who claim that their cars are "green", "clean" or "environmentally friendly" with some of the world's strictest advertising guidelines. They will take effect in Norway on October 15, 2007. — 419 words.
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Oil and gas deals signed after February 2007 between foreign firms and the Kurdish regional government (KRG) are illegal and the crude cannot legally be exported, says Iraq's oil minister. — 294 words.
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Seymour Hersh began his career as a police reporter. Since then, he has become one of the most important investigative journalists in the history of American journalism. Hersh first made a name for himself in 1969 by uncovering the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, for which he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. Hersh has worked for the New Yorker since 1992 and in 2004 was instrumental in uncovering the U.S. military's abuses of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Hersh was in Berlin last week to accept the Democracy Prize handed out by the political journal Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what's really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America's Hitler, Bush's Vietnam, and how the U.S. press failed the First Amendment. — 1,298.
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If the coffee is cold, he goes ballistic, smashes the cup on the floor and lashes out at his partner. If she doesn’t come running when he calls, or their daughter cries, he shouts impatiently and hits her. These are some of the scenes in unprecedented TV spots now appearing in Venezuela. — 863 words.
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President Hugo Chavez has inaugurated new initiatives in housing and education. As a part of a new government program called Mission Alma Mater, the government last week opened five new universities and began construction of several others across the country. The president was also present at the opening of nearly 100 new government-built apartments in Caracas as a part of a new program called Mission Villanueva. Some 510 modern, three bedroom, two bathroom apartments, are planned as a step toward decent housing for shantytown residents. — 717 words.
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A U.S. ground-based missile Friday successfully intercepted a target missile over the Pacific in a test of the U.S. defense system, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said.— 213 words.
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The ethanol boom of recent years — which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America — may be fading. — 1,666 words.
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A week ago, after the Democratic Senate surrendered to Republicans on Iraq and condemned Moveon, we decided it was time for Democrats in Congress to hear from the people who elected them - us. — 1,178 words
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Hockey player Nelson ``Nels’’ Stewart, was nicknamed ``Old Poison’’ because of his habit of spitting chewing tobacco into the eyes of opposing goaltenders. The Montreal native joined the Montreal Maroons in 1925, and later played with the New York Americans and Boston Bruins.
Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. For all the books of the best-selling duo visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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