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- South Korea will not send more than 3,000 troops to Iraq South Korea will not send more than 3,000 troops to Iraq, rebuffing Washington's request for a bigger deployment, President Roh Moo-hyun's office said Thursday. |
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- A man who worked as Saddam Hussein's translator for 15 years defended his former boss today as "gentle," and suggested the strongman was a victim of biased reporting. |
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- Germany's supreme court today approved the extradition of two Yemenis to the United States, where they are wanted on charges of supporting al-Qaida. |
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- New Glasses. I hadn't been to the eye doctor in many years, so it was way overdue. Sadly, my eyes are now so bad that they don't keep my new lenses in stock. So it'll be another week or so until I can see correctly again. Bummer, huh? |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Fresh Herbs Market Update |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Onion and Potato Market Update |
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- This is a table about Missouri Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- This is a table about New York Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- Ratbags is a collection of the looniest said and done on the web: In an ideal world, these people would not have web sites. The Millenium Project lists a thousand of these ghastly sites, and new links and commentaries are... |
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- One of the most exicting things to happen in a long time to to watch Dave Winer discover topics, knowledge management and categorization. And like any true visionary, entrepreneur software guy - Dave is putting his enlightenment where his mouth is - into his code. But at this point - I think it's fair to say that the word 'category' is being over-used, or shall I say politely 'mis-used', abused, mis-construed and all sorts of other 'buses. First the word category was used to mean 'separate blog channel'. |
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- I feel some sympathy for Gephardt. The man has a long record of tireless devotion to unions' causes - sometimes at the expense of the greater good, I might add (I am a firm believer in NAFTA). But his reaction to the endorsement of Dean by the SEIU-AFSCME |
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- Death Toll Up to 31 in Italy Base Attack In a crackdown on insurgents, U.S. troops destroyed an empty dye factory in Baghdad on Thursday and chased attackers seen firing mortars, while the death toll from a suicide bombing at an Italian paramilitary base rose to 31. |
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- I almost spit my coffee out when I saw this over at Blog of a Bookslut: I haven't had a... |
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- Right to a Home Campaign Nearly 6,000 homeless people feel nobody in power is listening to them. Three years into a Government strategy to tackle the problem it continues to get worse - Especially for families who are homeless. The official number of homeless people has increased from 5,234 to 5,581 since 1999. Meanwhile a record total of 48,413 households are stuck on housing waiting lists - That’s about 140,000 people in total. Focus Ireland’s Right to a Home campaign is calling for urgent Government action to tackle this growing crisis. |
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- Who are the great female vocalists of all time? Cast your vote! |
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- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced that the number of Americans with diabetes rose to an all-time high with an estimated 18.2 million people in 2003. |
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- Roland Piquepaille writes "In an article to appear on November 15, the New Scientist tells us that the 500 attendants of the last Pop!Tech conference were carrying intelligent badges to put around their necks. EurekAlert! has released a preview of this article, "Hello, will you be my friend?" These nTAGs, distributed by the nTAG Interactive company, contained personal details about their wearers. |
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- Strong Winds Knock Out Power in Midwest Strong wind kicked up by a fast-moving cold front swept through much of the Midwest and Great Lakes, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Near-blizzard conditions were in the forecast in parts of upstate New York. |
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- Digital Tavern E-Mail Notices. |
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- INCLUDE{"DocsDevTopicNote"} See CalendarPluginDevArchive for older discussions Development discussion for CalendarPlugin Adds a CALENDAR tag that shows a monthly ... |
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- Rumsfeld in East Asia to Discuss Positioning of US Forces U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is on his way to East Asia, saying he will discuss with allies there proposals for sweeping changes in the positioning of American forces worldwide. |
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- ANAEROBIC FITNESS: Jim Henley is defending S.U.V.'s, in a novel, but surprisingly persuasive, fashion. |
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- ANAEROBIC FITNESS: Jim Henley is defending S.U.V.'s, in a novel, but surprisingly persuasive, fashion. |
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- Do California lawmakers have a political death wish? See the Bee's story here about a planned trip by key legislators to a session with the prison guards union at a swank hotel in Hawaii. The trip would come Thanksgiving week,... |
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- Israel steps up attack on U.N. envoy over report Israel on Thursday stepped up its attack on a U.N. special envoy who blamed it for causing hunger amongst Palestinians, warning that it might not cooperate with future U. |
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- Iran warns IAEA board condemnation could backfire Iran's representative to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Thursday there could be "unpredictable consequences" if the agency's governing board declares Tehran in violation of the global pact against nuclear weapons next week. |
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- Ok—it's likely that this whole thing is going to sound mean, but it's not. Because the person in question is... |
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