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Congress sets $29 billion Katrina aid plan (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional negotiators have agreed on $29 billion in funds to help rebuild Gulf Coast states devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with most of that money being drawn from previously approved emergency spending, aides to lawmakers said on Saturday. |
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Rendition is not new: Powell (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - LONDON (Reuters) - Rendition, the controversial practice of moving terrorism suspects from one country to another, is not new and European governments should not be surprised by it, Colin Powell said on Saturday. |
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WTO talks stagger into last day, deal elusive (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Exhausted negotiators struggled on Sunday to keep a global trade deal alive in a final day of talks as Hong Kong riot police and die-hard anti-globalization protesters went into a stand-off after violent clashes. |
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How does GOP do it? Tobin case is revealing (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - We got to thinking last night, after watching Jim Lehrer interview President George W. Bush on PBS' "News Hour," how remarkable it is that Bush managed to get to the White House not once, but twice. Stepping back from politics of the last six years, try to imagine bringing an alien down from another planet [...] |
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CFTC CBOT Soybean Futures Commitments (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - NEW YORK - Dec 16/05 - SNS -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released the latest weekly report on futures positions held by soybean traders on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). |
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Gitmo Detainee Attempts Suicide Again (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A detainee at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay pulled stitches out of his arm this week in what was at least his tenth suicide attempt, the Justice Department said.... |
Mars Rover Blog
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Moon surface life tests... (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - Do anybody knows if in the past i.e. in the Apollo series or by some lander there, life-check experiments of some sorts, have been conducted on the moon surface? Or on the rock samples returned to earth? If life have such capability to "adapt" to extreme enviro situations, maybe some bacteria could live or can "resist" on the moon surface... |
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Ho-Ho Holidays Village Accessory Set (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - Village Trees Accessory Set Lets You Decorate Your Village for the Holidays! Exclusive Festive Christmas Village Accessory! - Nothing makes the holidays more beautiful than trees wearing their mantles of fresh snow and decorated with ornaments and gleaming garlands of gold. Now you can enhance the whimsical charm of your Christmas Village display [...] |
American Flag Blog
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Sheehan Goofed - She Didn't Burn American Flags (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - Oh no, look who's back in the news! We've watched Cindy Sheehan as she and her supporters desecrated American flags in various ways in Crawford, then waved the Palestinian flag in Washington. And now she's taken the desperate step of... |
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Anders, namelijk... (Dec 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - Bijzonder frappant vind ik dat...Wordt er in de poll gestemd op Anders, namelijk..., zegt men niet wat dat andere is!Dat is dan weer bijzonder jammer vind ik zelf.Ik zou namelijk graag willen weten wat men bezig houdt en wat men nou het leukste vi |
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Patient Photo Gallery (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Patient Photo Gallery Patient Photo Gallery. Breast augmentation, technically known as augmentation mammoplasty, is a surgical procedure to enhance the size and shape of a Breast Augmentation, Breast Implant Info, Enlargement, Enhancement Offers information about breast augmentation, enhancement, and enlargement, a listing of plastic surgeons, before and after [...] |
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Fake firefighter captured (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - A man accused of dressing as a firefighter and raping a colleague is arrested in Memphis. CNN's Heidi Collins reports (December 17) Read More... Source: CNN.com - Video |
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Eavesdropping 101 (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - CNN's Brian Todd shows us some of the methods used by the National Security Agency to listen in on anyone. (December 17) Read More... Source: CNN.com - Video |
The Daily Glyph
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Rumors of new Yucatan Ferry (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - (Above, the MV Jupiter before and after renovation, from what I can gather. It was built in 1974) If this is true it will make a lot of gringos happy. My original post about the old Tampa-Merida ferry (I... |
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wil jij misschien.... (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - wil jij misschienmijn vriendje zijnom samen te spelensamen te lerenen samen te zijn wil jij misschienmijn vriendje zijnzodat ik je kan bellenals ik niets te vertellen hebmaar gewoon je stem wil horen wil jij misschienmi |
DPRK Studies
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All about Korean names (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Well, perhaps not everything, but a lot of interesting information on Korean names is found at Wikipedia (in the news recently, at least for scientific information). They also have a page that lists Korean surnames in alphabetical order, along with the Hanja and how many people have that name as of 2000 (South Korea only). [...] |
Thomasburg Walks
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But which weasel? (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Sign like I've never seen before out in the snow of the first field this morning--nice deep fresh snow--25 to 30 cm. It may explain the odd tracks coming out from under the shed--but this kind of snow, damp but not too damp, and deep, doesn't show a lot of detail. A casual glance and an expectation of rabbit suggested rabbit, but later observations and a little thought, not rabbit. Here is a line |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - KOSELIG ENEBOLIG VED HUKUSJØEN(Åsnes i Hedmark)Hengebøl , 2266 ARNEBERG Visning: Visning utover fellesvisning etter avtale med megler. |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Critics condemn EU deal 'failure'. Opponents attack the deal reached by Tony Blair on the EU budget plans as a "spectacular failure". [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Family of five dies in house fire. Two adults and three children from the same family die in a fire overnight in west London. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Chinese Pressing to Keep Village Silent on Clash. Residents of Dongzhou say that security forces have tried to prevent accounts of a violent crackdown from emerging. By HOWARD W. FRENCH. [NYT > Home Page] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Talks at W.T.O. Meeting Yield Little Progress. Trade ministers rebuffed American requests at a World Trade Organization conference in Hong Kong as police battled rioting South Korean farmers. |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - In Speech, Bush Says He Ordered Domestic Spying. President Bush acknowledged that he had ordered the National Security Agency to conduct an electronic eavesdropping program without first obtaining warrants. By DAVID E. SANGER. [NYT > Home Page] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Louisiana's Deadly Storm Took Both the Strong and the Helpless. A New York Times study found that most victims of Hurricane Katrina survived the storm but died in the flooding that followed. By SHAILA DEWANand JANET ROBERTS. [NYT > Home Page] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Tensions Rise as More Flee Cuba for U.S.. The number of Cubans intercepted at sea while trying to reach the U.S. is at its highest level since the 1994 exodus sanctioned by President Fidel Castro. |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Powell raps Europe on CIA flights. The ex-US secretary of state criticises European countries which deny knowledge of rendition of terror suspects. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] |
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Blogger News Item (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Enjoy some of Norways best ski destinations this winter. Voss, Geilo and Kongsberg are our ski package destinations. Alpine skiing, telemark-style and snowboarding are all available. |
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DragonFly 1.4 To Be Released After Christmas (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Fans of DragonFly BSD will be getting their Christmas present late this year, and plans for 1.5 have been announced. MP safe networking code, the long awaited cache coherency management system, and a port of Sun's ZFS. Read here for more. |
Refinancing!
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Housing authority demolishes $1 million debt (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Housing authority demolishes $1 million debt Longmont Daily Times-Call, CO - Nov 15, 2005 streamlined the organization s business practices this year by consolidating most of its employees in its Boulder office and refinancing mortgage payments on |
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Is $800 Gold On the Way? (Dec 17 2005 23:44 GMT) - Is $800 Gold On the Way? New York Sun, NY - Dec 5, 2005 exploration. He also writes a monthly online investment letter on precious metal investments (subscription is $1,985 a year). |
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