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Energy
Uranium now a hot commodity
11-14-2006
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Uranium is the energy investment of choice for a growing number of hedge funds, which claim a sixfold gain since 2001 is just the beginning of a rally that will last years.
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Science, Medicine and Technology
New evidence shows a different meteor killed dinosaurs
11-14-2006
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DPA (Raw Story)
Paleo-forensics experts have produced new evidence to show that the dinosaurs were bumped off by a different meteor than the one that has received the rap for their extinction. A mysterious meteor or comet must have done the deadly deed - long after
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Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Reid backed planned bridge near his land
11-14-2006
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AP
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed funding for a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that could affect the value of property he owns nearby.
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WAR: About that War
Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq
11-14-2006
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CBS News
There is no one on the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has visited Iraq more often than Gen. Mike Hagee, whose term as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps ends Monday. Hagee says he asked his boss again and again who would take charge of those cit
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Anthropology
Early Roman shipwreck carried fish sauce
11-14-2006
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AP
A shipwrecked first-century vessel carrying delicacies to the richest palates of the Roman Empire has proved a dazzling find, with nearly 2,000-year-old fish bones still nestling inside clay jars, archaeolgists said.
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Immigration
Citizenship test to focus on democracy
11-14-2006
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AP
[And you thought this was a Republic.] In an effort to make the citizenship exam more meaningful, the federal government said it will test an exam that relies less on trivia and more on applicants' grasp of American democracy.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns
Unresolved House races at a glance
11-14-2006
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AP
Details on the 10 House races in which the outcome remains undecided:
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Criminal Justice System
Guantanamo detention cases must be dismissed
11-14-2006
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Reuters
The Bush administration said that Guantanamo prisoners have no constitutional right to challenge their detention before U.S. federal judges, and the lawsuits by hundreds of detainees must be dismissed.
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Police State
Immigrants may be held indefinitely
11-14-2006
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AP
Immigrants arrested in the US may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Miniature Robot to Power Through the Spine
11-14-2006
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LiveScience.com
In the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage," a full-size underwater vehicle was shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the blood vessels of a person. Now, a team headed by Dr. Moshe Shoham of Haifa's Technion has created a novel propul
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Opinion • More about Politics: General Activism
Constitution (Part 3): First There Was NAFTA, Then There Was CAFTA and How America Got the SHAFTA
11-14-2006
Dave Hodges
As America plunges headlong in the throes of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), one might choose to look at its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a predictor of the effect that CAFTA will have upon the Am
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Some Women Allergic to Sex
11-14-2006
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LiveScience.com
Women can be allergic to sex with men, but doctors are finding women can overcome this allergy through regular sex combined with treatments derived from semen.
"It's really a very rare condition, but it does happen,"
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Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists Search for Flowing Water on Mars
11-14-2006
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Space.com
Thanks to a flotilla of Mars orbiters, there’s been a steady flow of information streaming in from that puzzling world. Scientists are piecing together a far more coherent view of “real time” versus “geological time” in dealing with the whole of Mars
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Entertainment: Sports
Sports Artist Sued for Mix of Crimson and Tide
11-13-2006
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NY Times
Daniel A. Moore, who painted “The Sack” and scores of other renditions of signal moments in Alabama football history, said he felt something similar last year, when his fax machine began to spit out a lawsuit from the university.
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World News
Castro's Health Is Deteriorating
11-13-2006
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AP
The government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007.
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World News
Former Contras Bemoan Ortega's Return to Power In Nicaragua
11-13-2006
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Washington Post
As a young insurgent fighting to overturn Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution during the 1980s, Martin Laguna chose the alias "Commander Bitterness," to protest his suffering at the hands of a government that had gunned down
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World News
Weapons company with influential friends at the highest level
11-13-2006
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London Times
TONY BLAIR has been dubbed the “unofficial travelling salesman” of Britain’s biggest arms company, ever since its then chairman openly backed him to become Prime Minister in January 1997.
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World News
Democracy activists in Vietnam sense an opening
11-13-2006
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LA Times
Speaking softly and keeping a vigilant eye, he said his covert army of resistors finally sees hope amid the gloom: Several political parties have recently formed in Vietnam without seeking government approval. The Communists are slowly losing their i
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Military
China sub stalked U.S. fleet
11-13-2006
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Washington Times
A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.
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Reference Link • More about Media: Television
The future of television? Internet TV
Lx-TV
Crude, quirky, but just the start of something big...
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Techno Gadgets
T-shirt turns air guitar into music
11-13-2006
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AP
Scientists announced that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.
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Media: Print
Gannett sniffing Tribune: stock up amid reports of bidding
11-13-2006
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AP
Tribune Co.'s stock rose modestly amid reports that interest in buying the media conglomerate has stepped up, including a potential bid from Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher.
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Economy - Economics USA
Eddie Bauer accepts $286 mln private equity bid
11-13-2006
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Reuters
Eddie Bauer, a clothing and accessories retailer, said it had accepted a $286 million cash takeover bid from Sun Capital Partners and Golden Gate Capital, becoming the latest in a long line of retailers choosing to go private.
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Economy - International
GE, Hitachi form nuclear power alliance
11-13-2006
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AP
U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co. and Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said they planned to pool their nuclear units in a $2 billion enterprise they hope will capture more contracts as power suppliers gear up to build a new generation of plants.
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Entertainment: Music
'Borat' victims upset at being duped
11-13-2006
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AP
While teaching American humor to a gregarious and absurdly out-of-touch foreign journalist, Pat Haggerty realized something was off " who WAS this guy? [Laughing all way to bank.]
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Iran
Bush, Olmert warn of threat in Iran
11-13-2006
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AP
At a potential turning point in its war in
Iraq, the Bush administration paused to huddle with worried ally
Israel over the crisis next door in
Iran and to take stock of other Mideast trouble spots.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Deputies barge into wrong house (twice in same day)
11-13-2006
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HeraldTribune.com
Durrell Jones was sleeping on the living room floor with his 4-year-old son when armed sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests kicked open the door at 8:15 a.m.
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Entertainment: Movies
Sophie Scholl on sale Nov 14
11-13-2006
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Amazon
The true story of the White Rose resistance organization in Nazi Germany, which tried to warn the German people about the impending disaster which fell on them due to the Nazi regime.
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Police State
Plans are Underway to Microchip every Newborn in U.S. and Europe…
11-13-2006
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Christianity.rinf.com
“Implanted human beings can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions can be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies,” wrote Dr. Kilde. (If they can... they are)
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Iran
Meet the Iran Enterprise Institute
11-13-2006
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The American Prospect
Unchastened by the catastrophe of the Iraq war or the setback delivered to the White House and Republicans in the midterm elections in part as a result of it, Iran hawks have organized new efforts to promote US support for regime change in Tehran
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