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A long-time girl friend used to say on greeting, “Hey! What’s shakin’?” I haven’t seen her for a few years but if she were to ask me today I’d say, “The Money Tree!” — 434 words.
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Click here for full story on both cases. — 141 words.
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As a class, lower income people have been well represented in some of the best-covered food stories of our day, particularly hunger, obesity, and diabetes. As these issues have faded in and out of the public's eye over the last 25 years, another food trend was rapidly becoming a national obsession -- namely, local and organic. — 1,490 words.
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Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo has proved that he is not yet ready to put the espionage dispute with McLaren behind him. — 201 words.
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George Laidlaw is a novelist and President of the Ottawa Independent Writers.
Canada is the second largest country in the world and China is fast becoming the most powerful (United States aside). Perhaps China has a legitimate claim to Canada or some part of Canada.
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A leading human rights group is challenging a claim by the
Canadian government that it's free, under international law, to
collaborate with foreign regimes that practice torture in the
name of fighting terrorism. — 446 words.
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When I walked into the office that Monday, people were clustering around a computer to watch what they thought they would never see: Hillary Clinton with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes. — 1,151 words.
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The attempt by Nazi Germany to assassinate the "Big Three" - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - was foiled thanks to Soviet and British intelligence.
MOSCOW — The British Big Ape Media TV company and the Moscow TV Center are making a documentary series about Russian-British relations over four centuries. The Lion and the Bear, for release in 2008, will mix documentary history, travelogue and personal accounts and will be presented by author, and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Celia Sandys. — 996 words.
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TEHRAN — The head of the Iranian Jewish Society, Siamak Mareh Sedq, and a Member of Parliament from the Jewish community, Morris Motamed, in a recent joint statement dismissed allegations of an organized departure of Iranian Jews. — 202 words.
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"Fifteen of the nineteen people who allegedly flew airplanes into buildings in the United States got their visas from the same CIA Consulate at Jeddah." [6]
In a commentary after a 2007 interview of David Ray Griffin, PhD, Mr. Kenney said, “We should strive to clearly separate what we know from things we don't. Thus, we have a reasonably high level of confidence that the Establishment conspiracy narrative is absurd. The World Trade Center structures came down through controlled demolition. Flight 93 was shot down over rural Pennsylvania. And whatever it was that hit the Pentagon could not have been Flight 77. Further, whatever his peripheral involvement, the planning and implementation of 9/11 did not originate with Osama bin Laden.” [8] — 2,400 words.
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BUKHARA, Uzbekistan — In the scrub brush desert south of this ancient Silk Road town, the natural gas wellheads are built on modest concrete platforms about the size of basketball courts. Because the gas is naturally pressurized, pumps are not needed to bring it to the surface. Pipes simply kiss the ground and gas pours through them. The issue is where the gas goes from there. — 1,294 words.
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‘The state is flexible, they will accept what the youth is pushing on them," said Mohammad Moussavi, a former Iranian ambassador. "Over the next five years we will see the transition start. I don't see cracks in the system but evolution.’ — 562 words.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican labor authorities seized on technicalities to order an end to the strike at the country's largest copper mine in Cananea, Sonora, on Friday. The Mexican press reports that more than 700 heavily armed agents of the Sonora state police arrived in Cananea just hours before the decision was announced, and agents of the Federal Preventative Police were sent to the tiny mountain town as well. Strikers report that the streets were filled with rocks and teargas, and 20 miners have been injured - some seriously - in the ensuing conflict. The union says that five strikers are missing. — 1,632 words.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Signaling a growing divergence between the U.S. and Chinese economies, a key dollar interest rate has dropped below its Chinese counterpart for the first time since the yuan's peg to the dollar was abolished in July 2005. The vanishing of the longstanding spread between U.S. and Chinese interest rates shows how monetary policies in the two countries are headed in opposite directions, and complicates China's effort to curb a huge inflow of speculative money, analysts said. — 733 words.
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The housing market in the United States is collapsing. It's no longer a secret. Nor do you have to be an economist to see how the real estate contagion is taking its toll on the broader American economy. — 871 words.
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Harold Wright, Doctor of Punology, and his colleague George Carlin succinctly deal with profound questions of life and living:“If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?”
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