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Sabar Mina is cloaked in a light green shawl tinged with dirt. She is holding an empty flour sack that she plans on filling with firewood.
Her eyes are soft and kind, but they bear the signs of exhaustion. There’s a reason for that. Instead of going...
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Joe Lieberman has forced his will on the Senate Democratic caucus and the nation as a whole. After the party reached a compromise last week to effectively drop the...
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On Sunday night’s 60 Minutes, President Obama punched up his ongoing rhetorical battle with Wall Street, declaring that “fat cat bankers” have shown...
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It has been recently remarked that most Europeans are still happy seeing Obama as the US President. They remain fascinated by him and grateful for the direction of his...
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The current Obama care legislation working it’s way through the Senate could push the effective marginal tax rate of low and middle income earners up to the 70...
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Meet the measuring stick of America’s Pentagon:
In other words, the Pentagon determined that 30 casualties, even if they were civilian, were too few to matter...
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It’s all simply dark continent — yes, the entire world as a whole. Where Copenhagen Conference on “climate change” fails to bear fruit, how can we expect...
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“War Is Sometime Necessary”, this is the statement of US President Barack Obama at the Noble peace prize world function in Oslo 2009. Now my question is to...
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This year and the preceding marked the worst financial crisis in American history. Some countries, like Britain, actually saw a bank run. Trillions has been lost and...
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At the outset I must confess that I know about golf as little or more as I know about tigers, but I am fascinated by Tiger Woods. From being an underdog, he is the...
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The US Federal Reserve is leaving up to its expectations once again. This time it has spelt in no uncertain terms that it considers all US investors and small...
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Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his “homeboys” in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.
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The original punishments — including standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck — have been softened to a $1,200 fine, yet some lawmakers...
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Long the realm of sci-fi fiction and dreamers, commercial space flight may soon be a reality. A series of private American and one British firm have been working for...
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Next year Texas will hold its governor’s race and it is expected to be as big as Texas (I know cheesy line). Republican incumbent Rick Perry, who inherited his...
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There is news that the United States may open a military base in Algeria. That would be added to the U.S. naval base in Casablanca and Bahrain, the Air base in Qatar,...
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Robert G. Heft, who is credited with designing and sewing the first 50-star American flag, has died. He was 67.
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At once grave and humble, President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo yesterday and told his audience in the glittering City Hall an uncomfortable...
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Whoever cut down a 7-foot conifer in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle got a lot more than a typical Christmas tree.
It was a rare, imperiled species from China...
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The US House of Representatives voted today to pass H.R. 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009. Sponsored by Barney Frank (D-MA), this bill...
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It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and...
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Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into...
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If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can’t remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it’s...
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Researchers for a leading international medical journal say South Africa’s health system is failing women and children in particular, but that new leadership...
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They are doomed, first they were born mentally challenged and secondly they were born in those families who are suffering from mental deprivation,that is lacking...
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Our former President Abdul Kalaam would surely be shocked at this incidence as I am sure the present President Pratibha Patil when they will come to know about this....
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THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were.
When they were growing up;...
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Argentine teenager Pamela Villarruel poses with her seven children outside her parents’ home in the town of Leones in Cordoba Province, northern Argentina, May...
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Physically or sexually abused kids are at a significantly higher risk of having asthma, according to a new study.
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My son is at an age described as most as Tweens, the freaky age before a full-fledge teenager. This stage in his life is freaking me out the most, because...
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If there’s one thing men and women both want, it’s more sex. It’s no surprise: Most of us put sex low on our list of priorities, far below work,...
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There are plenty of ways to cut your carbon footprint, whether it’s driving less or buying an energy-efficient refrigerator. But the British Medical Journal, in...
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As a mother of 4 young children, all 5 years and younger, I can tell you that germs are easily passed from family member to family member. And how do they get passed...
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The cinema and television are the mirrors of the society together with its changes. Take for example the humble, illiterate ‘ma’ of the Hindi movies of 60’s and...
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Life is indeed beautiful, I tell him everyday. Yet on somedays the gloom doesn’t lift. Allergic eyes, dyslexia problems, aggressive classmates, expensive bike...
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You might be scolding your kid for putting studies at stake, courtesy long hours of out-of-doors activities, but as it turns out, outdoor games are good for children,...
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Its a burning issue, do we give or deprive our kids of a cellphone. Sometimes I feel with the crazy world that we live in I need to give this as a security that I can...
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The youngest of the children, 3-year-old twins Erin and Eric, were born a few days before Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. The babies, along with their three siblings...
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Kids who can get their hands easily on cigarettes — say from friends or close acquaintances — are more likely to end up with a regular smoking habit, a new...
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When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out.But the innocent...
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Actor Adam Rodriguez arrives at the Rally For Kids With Cancer scavenger hunt at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 2, 2009.
