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Downsizing Sprawlopolis: Flabby City, Fit City
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (twice voted America's Most Livable City) shifted their property tax off buildings and onto land. (Photo: dougtone) The obese American is not just a person; …
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Better This World: the Imaginary Terrorists
“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …
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Pakistan: Gem of a Plan Against Taliban
Peshawar - Mining gems and other valuable minerals may provide, the Pakistan government hopes, alternate careers to militancy in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bordering Afghanistan. …
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How to Do the Right Thing in a System That Is Wrong?
A summer evening. 1990. Perfect weather. My wife and I are with Hungarian friends, eating at a sidewalk café on a tree-lined street in Budapest. They’re troubled. …
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Twenty Reported Killed in Afghan Suicide Attack
Kabul, Afghanistan - Twenty people were killed in a suicide attack Sunday on the governor’s compound in Chaharikar in the central province of Parwan, Afghan officials said. …
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New Iran Sanctions Could Bring Unintended Blowback
Washington - A new Congressional push to sanction Iran's Central Bank is aimed at reducing Iranian oil revenues, but could backfire and hurt the global economy. …
The Drug-War Femicides
(Image: JR / Truthout) Barcelona - The number of women murdered is increasing in most of Central America and Mexico. In some countries, such as Honduras, the …
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Big Business Has Been Very Good to Mitt Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives on stage for an event at Keiser University's Sarasota campus, in Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New …
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The Struggle for Syria (2)
Demonstrators react during a march through city center Hama, in Syria, July 16, 2011. “Come on Bashar, leave,” is a song that in the weeks since it was heard …
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Pawlenty Drops Out of Republican Race
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican presidential candidate, attends a campaign event in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2011. Pawlenty announced this morning he is ending his candidacy …