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Brown defends on the day after…
Congress is moving quickly to force Obama into blocking gasoline sales to Iran over its nuclear ambitions. A US naval blockade is the only real way to enforce that. And from Iran’s point of view, that means war.
Expert: Iceland's Ash Cloud Only Going to Get Worse.
Death toll tops 2,200 in China quake
Non-contact Explosion Likely Sank Cheonan
The New Democrats are winning voters’ good graces as support for the Liberals plummets amid outrage over a controversial new tax.
The NDP has secured an 18-point lead over the Liberals as an anti-harmonized tax campaign continues to drum up disdain across B.C., according to an Angus Reid poll released Saturday.
Canada's TD Bank Financial Group gobbled up operations of three failed institutions in Florida. Regulators seized a total of eight banks, marking 50 so far this year that have failed.
solidarity caravan travelling to the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala in the Triqui Region of Oaxaca has been attacked by UBISORT paramilitaries. Two are confirmed dead, with at least 15 injured and three missing.
Chavez to join TWITTER...
...accuses US plane of 'electronic warfare'...
SUPAI, Ariz. — Seven years ago, the Havasupai Indians, who live amid the turquoise waterfalls and red cliffs miles deep in the Grand Canyon, issued a “banishment order” to keep Arizona State University employees from setting foot on their reservation — an ancient punishment for what they regarded as a genetic-era betrayal.
Natural phenomena have laid bare the fact that the networks that power our economy are both fragile and really expensive to duplicate.
Shipping, US coast at risk from huge oil slick
29 Apr 2010 ~ 18:32:52 GMT
Source: Reuters
(For a TAKE A LOOK on the spill, click [ID:nN29189680]) * Slick to hit U.S. Gulf coast on Friday * BP shares drop as investors fear cleanup liability * U.S. does not rule out pause in offshore ...
Junking Greece May Be Beginning of End for Euro ~ Greece cheated its way into the single-currency club, lied about its deficit for years, and now brings the shame of becoming the first junk-rated member after losing investment-grade status at Standard & Poor’s this week. The bailout -- misguided, misconceived and muddleheaded -- makes less and less sense as the region's crisis of confidence worsens. (bloomberg.com)
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A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian outback Thursday, destroying the astronomy experiment and just missing nearby onlookers, according to Australian media reports.
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In light of President Obama's recent budget proposal that inconsistently both supports and rejects nuclear energy, the author argues that it is time to stop an energy policy working at cross-purposes with economic policy. Expanding access to oil and natural gas reserves would create high-paying jobs, bring billions of dollars of revenue into federal and state treasuries and provide consumers with more clean-burning natural gas.
Researchers studied the impact of grass and grass/tree buffer strips on three herbicides commonly used in agriculture. The scientists studied the transport of the herbicides in both surface runoff and subsurface infiltration during two growing seasons.
‘Observations suggest that the ongoing rise in global average temperatures may already be eliciting a hazardous response from the geosphere’.
Top scientists call for research on climate link to volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis
Remotely controlled procedure could conceivably be performed over the internet from anywhere in the world, given a reliable connection.
Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source.
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Let’s hear it for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Its work on the financial crisis is increasingly looking like the 21st–century version of the Pecora hearings, which helped usher in New Deal–era financial regulation. In the past few days scandalous Wall Street e–mail messages released by the subcommittee have made headlines.
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