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Sep 3, 2011

WORLD News, Sep 03, 2011


China offered Gadhafi huge stockpiles of arms: Libyan memos
Globe and Mail
The papers do not confirm whether any military assistance was delivered, but senior leaders of the new transitional government in Tripoli say the documents reinforce their suspicions about the recentactions of China, Algeria and South Africa. ...
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Globe and Mail
WORLD - News of the Day From Across the Globe
San Francisco Chronicle
6 Nigeria violence: Religious rioting in the troubled central Nigeria city of Jos has killed at least 21 people in recent days, authorities said. Jos is located on the volatile dividing line between Nigeria's largely Christian south and Muslim north. ...
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A new world view
Boston Globe
(Wendy Maeda / Globe staff) The Keller family, clockwise: Teresa, Alex, 14, Jennifer,19, and Bella, 13, have just returned from a humanitarian trip around the world. By Joseph P. Kahn A year ago, aGlobe story about the Keller family of Groton posed ...
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The CDC has launched a new and efficient influenza test kit
Examiner.com
Today the CDC announced the release of a new groundbreaking influenza test kit that will be able to test for the three current nasty respiratory viruses that affects the globe every winter season: the swine flu (H1N1), classical Influenza type A and B ...
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Trading Week Outlook: Sep. 5 - Sep. 9
FXstreet.com
While the Reserve Bank of Australia would not be likely to make any changes to itscurrent monetary policy and is forecast to keep the benchmark rate at 4.75%, if the statement following the monetary policy meeting echoes the RBA Governor's optimistic ...
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The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
by Google by Canada411.ca by Yellowpages.ca by eluta.ca The greatest WorldSeries that never happened, at least in recent years, was the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox against the Chicago Cubs in 2003. All that history, all that potential for ...
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Belak's death should not be a soap box
Globe and Mail
If the person is well-known (such as Rypien, who had signed a one-year contract with the new Winnipeg Jets in the off-season) and the suicide is confirmed by police or a family member, The Globe and Mail does report suicides. But it's a grey area, ...
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Globe and Mail
Vultures get a day of celebration
San Mateo Daily Journal
Because of the growing threat to vultures, CuriOdyssey in San Mateo was inspired to join nearly 100 zoos and wildlife centers across theglobe to participate in International Vulture Awareness Day today. “We want people to be appreciative of animals ...
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San Mateo Daily Journal
New bird flu virus mutation threatens Vietnam
Thanh Nien Daily
Weaver said current vaccines do not adequately protect against thenew H5N1 strain as the antigenicity of this new virus has changed. “That is, the 'face' of the virus has changed and is no longer recognized by the antibodies produced by the current ...
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Thanh Nien Daily
Reporter recounts massacre revealed by WikiLeaks
Salon
Dean is indeed uniquely positioned: Between his former followers and his current clients, between his idealist liberal past and the cynical culture of K Street, between independence and cooptation. UPDATE: Read Howard Dean's response to Salon here. ...
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Salon
Libya: Matouk Mohammed Matouk's home a glimpse into a tyrant'sworld
Telegraph.co.uk
Framed on the wall was the boy's most recent school report card (outstanding in every subject, of course — this was a child no Libyan teacher could fail). An entire cupboard was full of medical reports, including a self-testing kit for erectile ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The roots of the Sino-Forest mystery
CTV.ca
In its annual reports, Sino-Forest reported more than $60-million in sales from the operation between 1994 and 1997. But a former company executive involved in the project told the Globe it never produced a single panel. According to Qi Shuxiong,...
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Blood, ink, and iron
Manila Standard Today
Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Kyra Sedgwick is back on the case as womanly yet strong, innovative yet resolute CIA-trained Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson in The Closer which airs a new season beginning tonight at 8 pm to Diva Universal. ...
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Seeking adventure: By boat or road, travelers to area have unique missions
St. Cloud Times
“As the day gets warmer, I have to release pressure out of (the globe) ... because you never can tell when you might have a 'catastrophic tear in the fabric of theworld,' ” he said jokingly of the canvas-covered sphere. He started his latest trip in...
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Without set standards, teachers develop own 9/11 lesson plans
Columbia Missourian
For example, in Texas, new world-history standards call for studying the “development of radical Islamic fundamentalism and the subsequent use of terrorism by some of its adherents.” In Oklahoma, the standards promote a broader look at terrorism. ...
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UN's Agenda 21 Equals Organized 'Snitching'
Canada Free Press
The US is the only country standing in the way of a one world global government under the aegis of the United Nations. Every day I discover a new facet to UN Agenda 21 that has been in place for quite some time, sold as a voluntary activity with broad ...
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Indonesia Poised for Online Ad Boom
Jakarta Globe
The website is financed by investors and current shareholders include the diversified Bakrie Group, local businessman Teddy Thohir and Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. “Most of those aged under 30 don't read newspapers any more even though their ...
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Let Women Lead the World
Daijiworld.com
Police reports actually account for the rise in violence against women in recent years. What do the growing literacy rates, developed conscience of the society stand for, If not to tackle and remove unhealthy social practices? ...
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Daijiworld.com
India scans 2.4 billion eyes to see end to poverty
msnbc.com
Infosys has grown into a $30 billion company with more than 130000 employees around the globe. Mr. Nilekani's path from son of a socialist textile mill manager to world-renowned billionaire inspires countless Indians. “I am an entrepreneur within the ...
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Whistler embracing cultural tourism in bid to widen its appeal
Globe and Mail
The public spat over liquor policies for the jazz festival has some calling for a review of regulations around special events, sayingcurrent laws have failed to keep up with the kind of programming Whistler is now trying to attract. ...
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Globe and Mail
Brazil's Soy Frontier: Next Stop, Africa
Mother Jones
Already, 60 percent of that land has succumbed to agriculture,reports Fred Pearce in a recent article in Yale Environment 360. Since the Cerrado came under the plow, Brazil has catapulted from a non-entity in the global soy market to the globe's ...
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Mother Jones
These Orangutans Love Them Some iPads
The Mark
In a recent international poll by the Workforce Institute, about 52 per cent of Canadians admitted to playing hooky from their jobs, and a majority of respondents cited stress as the main reason. But no need to be too disappointed in Canadians— in ...
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Hold the back page
Irish Times
Luckily none of the current Ireland rugby squad has any such phobia and enjoyed the flight to New Zealand this week. But not so Catalin Fercu, the second highest try scorer in Romanian rugby history. This week Fercu withdrew from the Romanian squad, ...
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Industrial Robots Industry Finally Beginning to Rebound
TMC Net
But hit hard they were, as sales across the globe dropped precipitously in 2009. Now a new report by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) says that the industry is showing signs of a pretty nice recovery this year. ...
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Extraordinary rendition lawsuit also window into low point for American experiment
Salon
Current and former officials said Sanchez was instrumental in teaching them how to develop sources. For years, detectives used informants known as mosque crawlers to monitor weekly sermons and report what was said, several current and former officials ...
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Salon
A History of the World's Conflicts, as Mapped by Google
The Atlantic
Though Cicero defined war simply as "contending by force," armed conflicts have permeated the globe for so long that "world peace" remains a theory rather than an foreseeable moment of planetary non-violence. While students of history often focus on ...
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The Atlantic
Mickelson no typical belly-putter adoptee
National Post (blog)
Players using them on the greens won three tournaments in a row last month: Adam Scott at the Bridgestone Invitational, Keegan Bradley at the PGA Championship and Webb Simpson at the Wyndham Championship. Many other players on recent leaderboards, ...
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(The views expressed in this column are the author's own and do not represent ...
Reuters India (blog)
Though valuations are reasonable at current levels, it remains to be seen whether the rally sustains in the coming week given the pressure points like high inflation and slowing economic growth along with various challenges coming up from the global ...
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Reuters India (blog)
Musica Globalista: the farewell essay by Simon Reynolds, 'Here Comes Everything'
Wired (blog)
Fusion aka jazz-rock aka jazz-funk was entirely about jazz responding to contemporary black dance styles or Latin/world influences, and also engaging with the latest technology (synths with Weather Report, Herbie Hancock etc). ...
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Overall View of Business Processes: the New Customer Event abas 360°
The Open Press (press release)
Practice and process orientation are central to the new customer event, abas 360°. Processes for different function areas will be presented live in the system. Furthermore, current abas users will present 'Best Practices' using the abas Business ...
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Hartzler says more about recent visit to Israel and meetings with leaders
Pulaski County Daily News
As a member of the House Armed Services Committee I am keeping a close watch on issues in the Middle East and other hot spots throughout the globe, but my focus on national defense begins right here in the 4th District. I was given the privilege of ...
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Some perspectives on South Sudan joining the EAC
The Citizen Daily
There are many gaps that exist on the supply side of the South Sudanese economy compared to the current EAC partner states. There are many inadequacies in the labour, goods and services markets in South Sudan than in the other EAC partner states where ...
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JOBS – Filling Just A Few May Well Solve the Nation's Ills
Benzinga
Now that my dear readers is the shining light that should be envied for imitation by the rest of the world – and not the current bill of goods the entire globe has been deceived into feverishly replicating to date. It's time to close down the old game ...
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ServiceSource Expands Executive Team, Names John Boucher Executive Vice ...
MarketWatch (press release)
These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's currentassumptions and beliefs, and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements. ...
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Most Recent Report “IPTV Global Forecast: 2011 to 2015” Published by ...
FierceTelecom
The new report “IPTV Global Forecast: 2011 to 2015” drawn up by MRG Multimedia Research Group, Inc incorporates the most recent information oncurrent IPTV deployments from pole to pole, as well a forecast for IPTV subscribers, service revenue, ...
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Volume sales suffer as grape supply endures period of flux
Freshinfo
Grapes are a truly global business, both for growers and importers. At the recent Global Table Grape Congress delegates heard how a wealth of new market avenues is emerging for the trade. Michael Barker reports The dynamics of global grape supply are ...
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Colin Farrell bites back
Herald Sun
He plays a pot-bellied, coke-addled caricature of a CEO (above right) in currentblack comedy Horrible Bosses. And he's on the phone from Toronto, where he's stepping into the lead role of Doug Quaid in director Len Wiseman's remake of mind-warp-ing ...
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WikiLeaks may have gone quiet but can't be written off
New Zealand Herald
He is tagged electronically, has to report to the local police station every day and his internet access is extremely slow, making effective co-ordination with WikiLeaks staff around the world arduous. The organisation's pariah status within a growing ...
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Grammar pupils' fight continues to save old school heady
Goole Today
Some of the protesters, who attended a reunion this month, also visited the school to display their banner and received support from some current pupils. Residents of Windmill Balk Lane have also expressed concerns about the new school plans because of ...
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Urban gardening takes off at Berlin's fabled airport
The Independent
Community gardens developed in big cities in part as an anti-poverty tool in blighted neighbourhoods and have swept the globe as the world's population grows more urban. Sociologist Christa Mueller, editor of the new book "Urban Gardening", ...
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How 9/11 changed us: Person by person
Tucson Citizen
The governor's staff works with lawmakers to draft a bill that “would give the governor power to terminate the reign of the current poet laureate.” 11.21.2002: The Newark school board creates a new position — school district poet laureate — and ...
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Gay Christian Network provides safe harbor
QNotes
by Lainey Millen | September 3, 2011 | Comments (0) In 2001, little did Justin Lee, a recent graduate from Wake Forest University and 23 at the time, realize what a monumental contribution he would make to LGBT Christians around the globe. ...
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Cyber Society
Hindustan Times
As technology revs up the speed of networking, more and more women are reaching for the World Wide Web to lay themselves bare, whatever the occasion – celebration or bereavement, a new baby or a pet's surgery, everything has to be published instantly, ...
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Royal Ballet stars celebrate local links in Suffolk ballet spectacular
East Anglian Daily Times
As the current exhibition in the Town Hall Galleries demonstrates, Sir Frederick Ashton, founder-choreographer of The Royal Ballet, came from a Suffolk family and made his home at Eye immediately after WWII. The other great choreographer with The Royal ...
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East Anglian Daily Times
Opinion: Europe, are you ready to stand by Palestine?
Ma'an News Agency
According to the Palestinian Authority, while more than 122 countries around the globe have declared their positive intentions and support for Palestine as 'state number 194,' the European countries decision remains vital. ...
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Ma'an News Agency
V2 Cigs Labor Day Sale Allows You to Enjoy a 15% Discount on All Its Products
Wiki Peers (press release)
In fact, the customer has the advantage of saving even more with regards to allcurrent sale items. The 15% discounted deals are all set to begin on September 2'nd, EST. As per the V2 Cigarettes company spokesperson, if the customer is seeking early ...
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A Storm of Anxiety Over Fresh Oil Batters the Gulf
Huffington Post
And there were those round-shaped 'globs' of oil again, here, there, and everywhere it seemed. We did not want to see this stuff anymore! But what's happening 40 miles out in the Gulf is not the only concern to those who make a living off the sea....
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The Crowning Achievements of Miss Universe GC Andrea Berner
Corporate Counsel
She says that although "there really isn't such a thing as pageant law," her experience both as deputy GC for Penton Business Media, Inc., and earlier as an associate with Weil, Gotshal & Manges prepared her for her current position. ...
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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
truthout
During periods of political consensus, for instance, the World War II and early post-war eras, the Senate was a "high functioning" institution: filibusters were rare and the body was legislatively productive. Now, one can no more picture the current ...
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Caetano Veloso As Guest Director, 2011 Telluride Film Festival Gets Under Way
Nonesuch Records
The festival's main program, the "Show," includes new films from David Cronenberg, Alexander Payne, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, and other celebrated directors from around the globe. Additional Sneak Previews will play outside the main ...
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