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A calculated cool-down
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Tampa Tribune, by Patrick Bohlen
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Posted By: Hazymac- 11/7/2009 5:13:08 PM
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On Oct. 21, 13 of the nation's leading professional agricultural, biological, chemical and geological organizations sent a joint letter to the U.S. Senate urging it to adopt policies that would limit U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. "Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver," they wrote. At the same time, a recent
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Drinking eight cups of tea a day
'reduces heart attack and stroke risk'
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Telegraph [UK], by Chris Irvine
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 5:10:55 PM
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Drinking up to eight cups of tea a day offers ''significant health benefits'', including a lower risk of heart attack and stroke, according to research. Caffeinated drinks including tea, coffee and cocoa have a positive effect on mental function, increasing alertness, wellbeing and short-term memory, according to the study. (Snip) ''Black tea, in particular, contains polyphenols, which are natural plant antioxidants. These have beneficial effects on many biochemical processes in the body''
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Spat over 'Muslim terrorists'
halts 9/11 marker
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 5:03:29 PM
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Hartford, Conn. - A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by ''Muslim terrorists.' Town officials in Kent are balking, saying it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group in a project on town property and paid for with taxpayers' money. (Snip) Town leaders agree that Muslim terrorists were
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Obama Weighs In as House
Debates Health Overhaul
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New York Times, by Carl Hulse and Robert Pear
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/7/2009 4:28:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama exhorted Democrats on Saturday to approve a sweeping overhaul of health care and to “answer the call of history” as the House began debating legislation that would transform the nation’s health insurance system. Democrats quickly took a significant step toward passage of the plan by surmounting a key procedural hurdle in approving the rules for debate. Despite a sharp party divide over how strictly to limit spending for abortions, leading Democrats
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For Russia’s Communists,
Ousting Putin Is a Priority
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New York Times, by Yulia Taranova
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 4:27:02 PM
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MOSCOW — Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917 revolution offered a slogan of more recent vintage: “Russia without Putin.” As the Nov. 7 holiday approached, leaders of Russia’s Communist Party — with 13 percent of the electorate the country’s largest opposition faction — have made it clear that they prefer President Dmitri A. Medvedev to his
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Couple flee to save their
unborn baby from social workers
after girl, 17, is told she is not
clever enough to look after her child
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Daily Mail [UK], by Alison Smith Squire
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Posted By: Freya- 11/7/2009 4:25:36 PM
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A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him up. It was another blow for the couple, whose wedding this year was halted just 48 hours before the ceremony
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N.C. congressman too
rushed to find airport parking
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Gaston Gazette [NC], by Staff
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 4:14:27 PM
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A North Carolina congressman dashing to catch a plane dumped his SUV at the end of a row of properly parked cars at Charlotte's airport. The Gaston Gazette reports Wednesday that Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry parked his Ford Explorer straddling a curb in a parking lot at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Sunday.
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Earth to economists:
Recession isn't over
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CNN/Money, by Carla Fried
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 4:12:41 PM
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Last week’s stream of economic data points to the emergence of a great divide. On the positive side, annualized third-quarter GDP was up 3.5 percent compared to the prior quarter. (Keep in mind that this is an ''advance'' estimate from the Dept. of Commerce. Stay tuned for revisions.) But consumer spending for September fell 0.5 percent. That’s the biggest dip since December 2008
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What 1,000 extra pages
of bureaucracy looks like
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Washington Examiner, by David Freddoso
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 4:06:16 PM
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As Democrats expand their health insurance reform bill from 1,000 to 2,000 pages, Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee expand their chart outlining how the new health insurance system will look. It ain't pretty. As you can see on the click-through, the chart describing the old bill is contained within the small yellow rectangle in the middle.
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Ft. Hood: The Largest
'Terror Act' Since 9/11?
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Fox News, by Walid Phares
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Posted By: Liberty7- 11/7/2009 3:54:38 PM
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The Fort Hood killings, perpetrated by Major Malik Nadal Hasan a psychiatrist by training, no matter what the judiciary reports conclude is, for now, the largest single terror act in America since 9/11. This quantitative finding will take into consideration dramatic change in the data released by authorities. However, the most important matter confronting us now is that we must not fail to properly analyze Hasan's possible motives.
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Sarah Palin's speeches were
ready but never seen -- until now
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm & Mark Milian
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 3:53:42 PM
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A year ago Wednesday, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stood by while her Republican running mate, Sen. John McCain, delivered his concession speech outside the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.Turns out Palin would have liked to give a little speech too, thanking some folks, graciously wishing the best to the Barack Obama winning ticket and introducing with effusive praise the man who plucked her from the political obscurity of Anchorage and thrust her, unprepared but eager, onto
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Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer
linked to September 11 terrorists
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Telegraph [UK], by Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius
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Posted By: GaGardener- 11/7/2009 3:53:31 PM
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Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
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Fort Hood Shooting Spurs
Re-Examination of Stress on Soldiers
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Bloomberg, by Jeff Bliss and Viola Gienger
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 3:52:30 PM
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The shooting that killed 13 people on a U.S. Army base in Texas has spurred the Obama administration to re-examine the stresses on a military force that has been at war for eight years. In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Base on Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the impact of multiple redeployments and battlefield experiences. “We have been trying very
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Bin Laden videotape not
new, monitoring site says
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 3:51:58 PM
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Washington - A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm. The tape, titled "To Our People in Pakistan,'' was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on July 12, (Snip) In his remarks broadcast by Al Jazeera in June, Saudi-born bin Laden said U.S. President Barack Obama had planted the seeds of ''revenge and
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U.S. Army gunman's act
''impossible'' - grandfather
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Reuters, by Ori Lewis
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 3:49:09 PM
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Al-Bireh, West Bank - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. ''He is a doctor and loves the U.S.'' Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters in an interview at his home in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh. ''America made him what he is.''
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Was massacre suspect a jihadist?
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Toronto Sun [Canada], by Peter Worthington
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Posted By: Liberty7- 11/7/2009 3:41:29 PM
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One thing not being mentioned openly about the Fort Hood massacre of 13 American soldiers and the wounding of 30 others, is whether this was a version of suicide bombing. That is, was the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, something of a Jihadist "sleeper" intent on replicating a suicide bomber to maximize his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? We don't know ... yet ... but it's a spectre so alarming one hardly
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UK tourist killed in Texan shooting
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The Times [UK], by Robin Henry
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 3:41:02 PM
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A UK tourist has been shot dead after a gunman opened fire in an American bar. Father-of-one Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed in Amarillo, Texas, after an armed robbery at the Spotted Pony Lounge. Reeve was out with two friends on Thursday evening when a man wearing a cloth over his face opened fire before robbing and sexually assaulting the customers.
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Police handing out
tickets for air fresheners
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Chicago Tribune, by Dan Simmons
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 3:38:18 PM
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Ermir Spahiu was pulled over by police for his window-mounted GPS unit. For Tina Ross, it was her handicapped placard. And Mark Hubbard was nailed for an air freshener. All three Illinois drivers were stopped for what they thought were innocent items placed near their windshields. (Snip) An increasing number of drivers are being cited for windshield and window obstructions, which can include anything an officer deems to ''materially obstruct'' a driver's vision. The only
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Cubans are finally free
- to buy peas and potatoes
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Telegraph [U.K.], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 3:37:02 PM
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The staples were removed from a list of rationed foods that most Cubans depend on, permitting them to buy as much of the products as they want – at 20 times more than they used to. The move comes amid efforts by Raul Castro's government to scale back Cuba's subsidy-rich, cash-poor economy. Lunches which cost so little they were almost free lunches were eliminated from some state-cafeterias in September.
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Dems ask Pelosi for autographs
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Politico, by Glenn Thrush
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 3:36:40 PM
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There's no way to predict what the final vote on the health care bill will be, but the body language of Democrats in the chamber today suggests they are, for whatever reasons, breathing a little easier.(Snip)At some point, people began unwrapping copies of bill and handing it to the speaker for her autograph.The first member I saw ask was Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). Pelosi seemed stunned but obliged,
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You hate me? Thanks
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Toronto Sun [Canada], by Michael Coren
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Posted By: Liberty7- 11/7/2009 3:36:35 PM
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I just can't keep it in. I know I shouldn't boast but, well, as a Roman Catholic I simply have to. We've won. I mean, we actually have won. The church founded by Christ has become the one and only institution hated by assorted Marxists, maniacs and misanthropes. In the space of a single week, we had the following: The Washington Post ran achingly predictable self-promoter and professional atheist, Richard Dawkins, writing that the Catholic
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When the Wall came tumbling down
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Toronto Sun [Canada], by Salim Mansur
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Posted By: Liberty7- 11/7/2009 3:33:40 PM
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Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes. A whole generation has come of age since then with insufficient memory, or none, of that moment in
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Honduran rivals signal
new bid to solve crisis
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Reuters, by Mario Naranjo
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 3:33:19 PM
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TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier. President Manuel Zelaya, a refugee in his own country in the Brazilian Embassy, early on Friday declared dead a pact to end the crisis, while de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said he would form a new government
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Pelosi: 'Making history today'
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Politico, by Patrick O'Connor
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 3:33:04 PM
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi all-but-predicted passage of a House health reform bill Saturday, following an emotional appeal from President Barack Obama to fellow Democrats urging them to “answer the call of history” and vote yes. “Now’s the time to finish the job,” Obama said in the Rose Garden, following a 30-minute closed-door meeting with the House Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill.
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Muslim Population in the
Military Raises Difficult Issues
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Wall Street Journal, by Yochi J. Dreazen
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 3:29:13 PM
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The deadly rampage at Fort Hood is forcing Pentagon officials to confront difficult questions about the military's growing Muslim population. The military has worked hard to recruit more Muslims since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the number of Muslim troops, while still small, has been increasing. There were 3,409 Muslims in the active-duty military as of April 2008 (Snip) At West Point, Army officials said there were just 24 Muslim
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Hispanic women snapping
up booty-boosting jeans
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Gannett News Service, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 3:26:29 PM
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You'll never hear a woman wearing Colombian jeans ask, "Do these make my butt look big?" -- because that's the whole point. Colombian jeans -- commonly called "butt lifting" jeans -- are touted as jeans that raise your derriere naturally, without fillers or rods. The jeans are wildly popular among Latinas.
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