In an incredible move, the Baseball Hall of Fame has denied entry to 90-year-old Marvin Miller, who built the baseball players' union into one of the moist successful unions in all of labor history, while at the same time admitting former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, a buffoon who did more harm than good. (Miller is...
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The British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear “Muhammad” as part of a writing project arrived in England after being pardoned – ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims. Gillian Gibbons is back home after serving eight days of a 15-day sentence for...
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The British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear “Muhammad” as part of a writing project arrived in England after being pardoned – ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims. Gillian Gibbons is back home after serving eight days of a 15-day sentence for...
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The United States Congress has returned from a two-week recess to face a busy agenda before it completes its session later this month. President George W. Bush is urging lawmakers to approve his funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a first priority. President Bush renewed his criticism of majority Democrats...
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On the third day of the 2007 Taipei IT Month in Taiwan yesterday, notebook computers and desktop computers built with AMD’s Phenom processor and Intel Penryn processor openly battled for the consumer-market after each company launched their quad core processors. Intel with partners like Acer, Genuine, ASUS, and Lenovo promoted their desktops with Core...
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A sub-body of the World Climate Change Conference today took up the item of “Development and transfer of technologies” on its Agenda, and subsequently decided to establish a contact group to speed up negotiations. Both the declaration of the new Agenda item, as well as the setting up of the Contact group, came after...
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The anti-poverty group Oxfam says global warming is altering the human food supply and threatening some of the world’s poorest people with hunger. At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, the group argued developed countries should pay to address the problem, and costs could top $50 billion a year. Climate change,...
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The anti-poverty group Oxfam says global warming is altering the human food supply and threatening some of the world’s poorest people with hunger. At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, the group argued developed countries should pay to address the problem, and costs could top $50 billion a year. Climate change,...
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In an investigation reported on first by Wikinews, Wikileaks today revealed another chapter in the story of the Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) manual for the Camp Delta facility at Guantanamo Bay. The latest documents they have received are the details of the 2004 copy of the manual signed off by Major General Geoffrey D....
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This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. At Thanksgiving dinner David Shankbone told his white middle class family that he was to interview Reverend Al Sharpton that Saturday. The announcement caused an impassioned discussion about the civil rights leader’s work, the problems facing the black community and whether Sharpton helps or...
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The freshly elected president of the World Climate Change Conference Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesian Minister of the environment, as well as his predecessor, Nabiel Makarim, and Yvo de Boer of the UNFCCC, called for a breakthrough in negotiations on the first day of the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Bali today....
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The freshly elected president of the World Climate Change Conference Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesian Minister of the environment, as well as his predecessor, Nabiel Makarim, and Yvo de Boer of the UNFCCC, called for a breakthrough in negotiations on the first day of the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Bali today....
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The caretaker prime minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, reappeared on the political stage today as he accepted the royal request to suggest solutions to the ongoing federal government formation talks. Recollecting his statement to the press on June 10, 2007, when he recognized his electoral loss and the victory of his opponent Yves Leterme,...
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A senior United States intelligence official said today that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure. The official cautioned that Iran is still continuing to enrich uranium and could have a nuclear weapon available between 2009 and 2015, but the report states that intelligence shows that Iran...
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Finnish company Neste Oil have announced that they intend to construct the world’s largest biodiesel plant in Singapore at a cost of €440 million. The NExBTL facility will be Neste’s third such project, and is intended to have a maximum capacity of 800,000 tonnes a year. Demand for biofuels is expected to rise greatly...
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Finnish company Neste Oil have announced that they intend to construct the world’s largest biodiesel plant in Singapore at a cost of €440 million. The NExBTL facility will be Neste’s third such project, and is intended to have a maximum capacity of 800,000 tonnes a year. Demand for biofuels is expected to rise greatly...
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The former Mayor of Sefton in the United Kingdom has been jailed for fraudulantly obtaining state benefits. John Walker and his wife Catie, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Liverpool Crown Court and of exaggerating ill health to obtain disability living allowance. The Judge Brian Lewis described the fraud as “a disgraceful...
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Austin, TX – Dr. Randy Fagin, one of the nation’s leading daVinci robotic prostate cancer surgeons, announced today the formation of a new not-for-profit charitable organization called the Prostate Cancer: Save a Life Foundation. Unlike other foundations, the Prostate Cancer: Save a Life Foundation will not be using its funds to support research, but...
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I have mixed emotions about the T-Mobile "Creepy Dad" commercial. On one hand, it's nice to see a father portrayed as being caring, protective and involved, like most dads are. It also shows a strong father-daughter bond.
On the other hand, it promotes the idea that teenage boys are a hazard to teenage girls. There's...
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Considering the enormity of Joyce Carol Oates’ literary output, it is curious how, until recently, non-white characters have figured so peripherally in her works. This is especially interesting when one considers that she has said that she has always wanted, especially in her most ambitious novels, to capture the essence of the American experience...
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