EARLIER this year Asda was among a number of British supermarkets shamed because some of their beef products were found to contain horsemeat. Luckily, consumers are a forgiving lot. Asda reported last week that its sales have already recovered to pre-scandal...
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HUNDREDS of cars set on fire, a school in flames and angry youths hurling stones at the police. This is not the banlieue in France but suburbs in supposedly peaceful Sweden. Six nights of arson and violence in Stockholm’s poorer suburbs, where a majority...
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IF BARACK OBAMA doesn't want to leave American children with "debt they cannot pay" he will have to reform entitlements. Our correspondents recommend how this should be done...
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In a town hall meeting with staffers last week, new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz dropped a bombshell and a hint. The bombshell, at least as far as fans of natural gas are concerned, is that Moniz sees natural gas not as a permanent fixture in the U.S....
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There has finally been some exciting news from our most essential star. Successful IPOs and island-sized installations have made solar a serious energy contender at long last. One of the sexier examples is the announcement that NRG Energy and Starwood...
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The Nation runs an interesting piece on some corporate funding for the left-wing Center for American Progress. The article, a response from CAP and a response to the response are all worth noting. It opens as follows: The Center for American Progress,...
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Cutting through the hype of Internet Week to find out: Is there a real idea here? ...
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Technology now evolves so quickly that there are tech-savvy adults who don’t know the sound of a dial-up modem, never used a felt-tip to rewind a cassette tape nor flushed CDs in the toilet in an effort to clean them. Although it always feels that...
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It seems like every day we're getting a little bit closer to having tricorders, and today's no exception. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed hardware and software that turns the iPhone into a powerful biosensor...
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Decision to approve patent for embryo cell data could make IVF fertility treatments prohibitively expensive, says expert A fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects of human...
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Decision to approve patent for embryo cell data could make IVF fertility treatments prohibitively expensive, says expertA fresh international row has erupted over granting US patents to processes which many scientists believe are basic aspects of human...
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In her recent Slate article, “I Should Have Frozen My Eggs,” Amy Klein, who is currently in her early 40s and undergoing IVF treatments, writes: “Freezing your eggs is worse than PMS but better than a trip to the dentist and can be done in less...
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New Albany, OH – Following an intensive six-month investigation, Dr. Ali Salim was arrested in February. He was indicted on charges of kidnapping, drugging, rape, and murder after allegedly injecting a full-term pregnant woman with heroin – killing...
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Kim Kardashian is handling her pregnancy well, especially considering that Kanye is on another continent most of the time. The reality star went out to La Scala restaurant in LA for a bite to eat yesterday, and showed off her large baby bump in a tight...
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VladTV | Sunday, May 26, 2013
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Investigators say a former doctor going on trial this fall in Ohio raped a woman who was nine months pregnant, then killed her by injecting her with heroin.
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Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale — in tiny pieces.
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An Oregon high school student is being charged with attempted murder after the authorities say he planned to attack his high school with bombs.
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Authorities on Saturday searched amid rainy and windy conditions for an Iowa teenager who was abducted Monday.
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Justin Bieber’s image has adorned a lot of, lets just say stuff, in his time. Singing toothbrushes, microphone flossers, dolls, small-print laden prepaid credit cards — you name it, he’s been on it. But, even the financially astute 19-year-old...
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Recently Google announced it was launching a quantum artificial intelligence lab with a company associated with NASA, while, at its developer conference, it talked up seven new apps for Google Glass, the soon-to-be-available smartphone-on-a-face. The...
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Filed under: Investing A whopping 25.3 million people in the U.S. right now are diabetic, with an additional 79 million Americans in the pre-diabetes stage. Those figures, according to research firm PhRMA, are downright scary, because diabetic patients...
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Memorial Day is a unique and special holiday for many reasons. However, unlike others, the American flag is lowered to half-staff until noon, when it is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.
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With each pipeline that is approved, each greenlight given to coal and natural gas exports, we're putting more bullets in the chamber, and doubling down on our dangerous game of 13 Tzameti.
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Thank you for spending this year with my child, maybe the last year when I can really, truly call him a child, and for continuing to nurture his love of school. Thank you for the Friday afternoon dance parties, the reading breaks, and the current events...
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Tainted Dish‘s Charles Stone Returns for Tantalizing Adventures Down Under in the Newly Released The Molina Curse Charles Stone finds his love tested and his life in the balance in The Molina Curse, the sequel to the Tainted Dish thriller. … Continue...
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Prospero pans the 2013 Met Ball, designed to celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture”: It was a silly idea to begin with. Doing punk through the clothes is like trying to do hippiedom with peace symbols....
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KJ Noons has been talking with his fists, either in a cage or in a ring, for more than a decade. A veteran of kickboxing, boxing and mixed martial arts, his crossover into the UFC is the last of the bigger names to come from the Strikeforce roster. Coming...
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Times Square Mosaics by Ariel Erestingcol
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Oklahoma native Dustin Ellison has twice sifted through the wreckage of the same 7-11. ...
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The townspeople in Fort Collins were greeted with some unfortunate news earlier this week, as their city council decided to overturn a ban on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few short months. The decision to overturn the ban was...
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Environmentalists are worried by how a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert could affect the fragile condor population. ...
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After more than a decade at war in Afghanistan, the Americans are moving into a support role this year, but an intense effort to train the Afghan security forces is not without its hurdles. ...
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An American withdrawal from the region could diminish the financing and political importance Pakistan held as a key player in global counterterrorism efforts. ...
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United States Vice President Joe Biden has faced a firestorm of criticism from Chinese international students after he referred to China as a nation that cannot "think different" or "breathe freely" during his commencement speech at the University of...
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The news of the arrest of photojournalist Raúl Capín, in Madrid, was widely shared under the tag #RaúlLibertad on Twitter. Photojournalist Adolfo Luján was also arrested. Many online messages of indignation and against the repression of journalists...
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India's Supreme Court recently ruled that village councils should make the final decision as to whether controversial British company Vedanta Resources can mine for bauxite in the eastern state of Odisha. Vedanta wants to mine on land that the local...
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Ore. teen accused of planning to attack school
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NPR | Sunday, May 26, 2013
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Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital
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NPR | Saturday, May 25, 2013
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The contentious little creatures were allowed in the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time in its 100-year history. Their presence has been hotly debated, but celebrity-decorated gnomes will be sold for a cause.
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NPR | Saturday, May 25, 2013
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There's a false argument about the national debt that goes like this. We can't leave a huge debt for future generations to pay off. It's false for a couple of reasons: 1. If you make good investments, they create growth and the growth pays off the investment....
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Tesla $465 million loan was used to build two California plants. Raking in some $1 billion by selling stock and debt last week, Tesla says it's saving interest charges by paying back $465 million loan ahead of schedule....
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The military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, considered together, will be the most expensive war in American history. There are many ways to tally the costs. The price tag is estimated by Linda J. Bilmes of the Harvard Kennedy School to total somewhere...
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