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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration pleased farmers and frustrated environmentalists Monday by declaring that pesticides can be sprayed into and over waters without first obtaining special permits. The heavily lobbied decision is supposed to settle a dis
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Before proceeding to the next phase of the Land of Bad Weirdness through which The Fat Lady Sings has just journeyed, I must take this opportunity to state in no uncertain terms that Lou Dobbs presents me with no conundrum at all. His advocacy for meat-an
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Afghanistan’s war on drugs has been marred by corruption that has strengthened the grip of an increasingly powerful mafia on the country’s narcotics trade, a report by the World Bank and United Nations said.
Over the past five years, the British-led
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The rise in humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis.
The Global Carbon Project says that emissions were rising by less than 1% annually up to the year 2000, but are now rising at 2.5% per year.
It sa
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“They’re not gonna build it,” Moody says flatly. “We darn sure don’t need a wall. Everybody knows the Great Wall of China wasn’t worth a damn.”
Most everyone here agrees that more border security is needed to curb illegal immigration. Ranchers such as Mo
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A US-backed proposal to send African troops into Somalia to support the weak government raises the risk of triggering an all-out war with the Islamic courts that could destabilise the entire region, a leading thinktank said yesterday. The International Cr
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An international research team has discovered that forest fragmentation poses an even greater threat to Amazonian biodiversity than previously thought. Their findings, to be published next week (27 November – 1 December) in the journal Proceedings of th
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Turn on CNN Headline News—a supposed “news” channel—on weekday nights and you’ll be subjected to the lectures of a loudmouthed, factually-challenged, occasionally funny know-it-all whose shtick is that he’s “just a regular American schmoe.
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States must take the lead in the movement to fix the higher education crisis, a report released Monday by a commission of state legislators said.
“Higher education is a national imperative, there’s no question about that, but it has been and remains
~ by SAP on 28 November 2006.
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