links for 2007-03-21
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Visitors to the Grand Canyon are to get stunning views from a raised glass platform being inaugurated on Tuesday.
Rising 4,000ft (1,220m) from the canyon’s floor and 70ft (20m) beyond its rim, the Skywalk is being described as an engineering first.
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The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says there has been an “abject denial” around the world of the humanitarian impact of invading Iraq.
The UN faces an enormous task in helping countries such as Jordan and Syria cope with the huge influx of Iraqi refugee
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The head of the Internal Revenue Service faces questions in Congress today about auditors’ complaints that they are being forced to close corporate cases prematurely, allowing billions in tax dollars to go unpaid.
In interviews, these revenue agen
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The Bush administration ran a systematic campaign to play down the dangers of climate change, demanding hundreds of politically motivated changes to scientific reports and muzzling a pre-eminent expert on global warming, Congress was told yesterday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya – CIA officers in Kenya failed to use their influence to win the release of an American citizen who was secretly deported to Somalia and is now imprisoned in Ethiopia, a country that the State Department says abuses detainees, according to
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Some of the world’s largest and best-known rivers are at risk of drying up as a result of climate change, pollution and bad planning, a report warned today.
The study by the environment group, WWF, focuses on the ten rivers most danger of drying up o
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The Bush Administration is increasingly dependent on private security forces to do its dirty work, Jeremy Scahill reveals in his new book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
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In addition to borrowing from the world’s poorest countries, Bush & Co. are secretly confiscating your hard-earned dollars to support their out-of-control spending habits.
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Just as a scandal in the Justice Department has the Bush Administration reeling, al Qaeda’s #3 operative has admitted to killing U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. So, what can we believe?
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In a study available online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from UT Southwestern show that the Clock gene, which controls the body’s circadian rhythms, may be integrally involved in the development of bipolar disorder. C
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I’ve been doing these little performance pieces for quite a while now, and I thought that it would only be sporting if I gave you the beginnings of a simple taxonomy of anti-me arguments that pop up like a million zits on a greasy-faced teenager on lo-tra
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The FBI, which has been criticized for improperly gathering telephone records in terrorism cases, has told its agents they may still ask phone companies to voluntarily hand over toll records in emergencies by using a new set of procedures, officials said
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Attempts to rescue four Russian coal miners trapped underground are continuing, after an explosion killed 106 people at a Siberian pit on Monday.
Some 93 people were rescued from the Ulyanovskaya mine, which was devastated by a methane explosion.
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This is rather notable for multiple reasons. Initially, the conduct of agents in interrogations would only be at issue where the defendant was claiming that the statements or confessions were coerced — or otherwise obtained using methods that cast doubt
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Philip Cooney is the former chief of staff to President Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality who made hundreds of edits to government climate reports in ways that played down links between human activity and global warming. He worked for the American
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“You have no idea,” said one Justice official, “how bad it is here.”
The fear that virtually any piece of communication will have to be turned over has paralyzed department officials’ ability to communicate effectively and respond in unison to the cr
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Monthly figures for civilian casualties are from Iraq Body Count which uses at least two media reports as the source for each death. We have used a mean number of IBC’s minimum and maximum figures for each month.
More details on Iraq Body Count’s me
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There’s a lot of weirdness every day in the capital city, but this one pushed the envelope: 13 Iraq war veterans in full desert camo going on “patrol” from Union Station to Arlington National Cemetery. They carried imaginary assault rifles, barked command
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An Iraqi police chief has told the BBC he cannot trust one third of his officers because they are loyal to illegal militias.
General Abdul Hussein Al Saffe, head of policing in Dhi Qhar province, told BBC correspondent Paul Wood that many of his off
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