Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Reuters - Speed skater Clara Hughes, the only Canadian to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games, has been selected to carry her country's flag into the opening ceremonies of next month's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Looks like Amazon has conceded on ebook pricing from Macmillan. Amazon removed all physical books and ebooks of Macmillan to make a point about their pricing structure. Well today Amazon concedes they will agree to Macmillan terms but don't like. And stated that Macmillan is overpricing their ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Media Consortium) - In his first State of the
Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only
briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not
give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did
he mention the Copenhagen ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Time.com - In a fortuitous chain of events, a NASCAR team owner's good intentions meshed with the needs of U.S. parents hoping to be united with their Haitian adoptees
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor - The specialists know the warning signs. Analysts and scientists and field officers and academics spend years writing white papers, issuing reports and holding conferences, trying to provoke interest in issues that often seem arcane. Please, they have urged governments and the United Nations and activists, ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
AFP - An outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Marshall Islands has been declared a public health emergency, as the government Saturday considered invoking special powers of quarantine.
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Reuters - Speed skater Clara Hughes, the only Canadian to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games, has been selected to carry her country's flag into the opening ceremonies of next month's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Media Consortium) - In his first State of the
Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only
briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not
give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did
he mention the Copenhagen ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Time.com - Thousands of women have been clamoring to donate milk to babies on the Haitian mainland. But for now, at least, that's not the answer.
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Time.com - Only the rich can afford coffins nowadays. Many corpses of the poor are piled up on sidewalks to be carried off like garbage
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