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Ach-zo! Ve haff to go to Moscow to learn that our days of plenty in natural gas are rapidly coming to an end. Please see Petro-Canada seeks pact with Gazprom to ship Russian gas to new Quebec plant. — 191 words.
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Fact: The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends is . . . — 191 words.
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Last week brought welcome news for young hellions and their stressed-out parents. "Studies on Students Say Bad Behavior Is Not Dooming" announced the front-page headline of a New York Times article about two recent scientific investigations into children's behavioral development. — 1,052 words.
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Volvo created an interesting design for the C70. Some convertibles are gorgeous with the top down, but when it's time to put in on, the overall look of the car is compromised. With other models, it's the other way around. Well, I'm happy to report that the C70 is beautiful either way. — 884 words.
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Canadian oil and gas firm Petro-Canada on Tuesday urged potential partner Gazprom to approve a plan to build a $3.5 billion liquefied natural gas plant on the Baltic Sea to capitalize on the decline of the product's supply in North America. — 307 words.
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A few weeks ago, in Britain's Prospect magazine, the paper's foreign editor, Bartle Bull, published a bold essay saying that the high tide of violence in Iraq was essentially behind us and that the ebb had disclosed some interesting things. First, the Iraqi people as a whole had looked into the abyss of civil war and had drawn back from the brink. — 1,042 words.
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The Duma (parliament) elections are very strange. Until now they had seemed to be nothing more than a formality to re-elect members of a senseless and useless lower house of parliament. — 634 words.
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Just at the very moment when it seemed that all of society was rallying around United Russia, carrying out Putin's Plan and rescuing Russia from disaster, a single renegade emerged on the scene from nowhere. He turned out to be opposed to all of this. — 653 words.
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Investigators in Perugia, Italy, have found new evidence linking a 20-year-old American exchange student, Amanda Knox, to the brutal stabbing death of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher. — 362 words.
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John Edwards, accepting his party's nomination for vice president, roused a cheering crowd at the 2004 Democratic convention with the kind of buoyant refrain that had become his trademark: "Hope is on the way." The next night, wanting to give the American people something more tangible, John Kerry offered his own pledge, one intended as the ticket's new slogan: "Help is on the way." But Edwards did not want to say it. — 1,532 words.
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MOSCOW The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service ordered the country's five largest energy companies, including state-run Gazprom and Rosneft, to ensure fuel deliveries to independent retailers after supplies dropped last month. — 259 words.
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FRESNO, California The largest U.S. car companies have sought to persuade a federal judge to toss out California's strict tailpipe emissions standards, which they say could wreck the American auto market and lead to job losses at auto plants and dealerships nationwide. — 403 words.
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Before becoming a political leader in the 1860s, Louis Riel trained for the priesthood and worked as a law clerk in Montreal.
Mark Kearney of London, Ont. and Randy Ray of Ottawa, are the authors of eight books about Canada, including ``Whatever Happened To? Catching Up With Canadian Icons. For all the books of this best-selling duo visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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Carl Dow, Editor and Publisher
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Carl Hall, Technical Analyst and Web Editor
Harold Wright, Contributing Editor
Randy Ray, Contributing Editor
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