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Beyond Apocalypse and Back to Earth
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Re-Occupy, ASAP
What a welcome relief the Occupy movement’s trend of “leaderless” groups! True, this seemingly contradictory concept is difficult to absorb in a culture the promotes a leadership style that …
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A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
New York - As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already …
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Repatriation Con Games
Lobbyists are storming Capitol Hill, pushing a tax holiday that would give billions of dollars in tax breaks to less than 1 percent of American businesses – and stick …
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Nicaragua’s Top Cop, Who Once Wanted to be a Nun, Fends Off Drug Gangs
Managua, Nicaragua - Even as drug gangs are taking control of wide swaths of other Central American countries, a gentle and unassuming 60-year-old grandmother appears to have held them …
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Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at US Airports
The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the …
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Ending Violence Against Women Is Defending Human Rights and Dignity
“I was excited to come to US, but since my arrival I have not had one happy day. He needed a servant and a nanny for his kids. For …
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Is Europe Over?
Europe has always been a rather tenuous concept. A rump continent, Europe represented the barbarous hinterlands for the Greeks and Romans. The first use of the term “European” occurred …
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As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, Congress Moves to Gut Financial Reform (2)
Police officers tear down tents and tarps at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, on November 15, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
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Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision …