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Apr 23, 2012

WASHINGTON POST News, Apr 23, 2012

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By The Reliable Source Raul Fernandez (Kevin Clark/The Washington Post) Raul Fernandez gave $30K to help elect Barack Obama in 2008 — but the part-owner of the Wizards and the Caps says he'll vote for anybody but Obama this year because he feels like ...
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Washington Post (blog)
A roving band of Washington Post Style reporters weighs in on the latest arts, fashion and culture news. Got a tip or a suggestion? Send us your thoughts via email, Facebook or Twitter. By Jacqueline Trescott “Old Pine Tree and Peacock,” by Ito Jakuchu ...
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UFO News, Apr 23, 2012


'Break on through to the otherside' Interview with Greg Bishop on UFOs
Examiner.com
... got me more interested in the government deception agenda when it comes to UFOs. Through his book Project Beta it helped opened my eyes a whole lot more to the situation being alot more complex, than just simply gray aliens or little green men.
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UFO: California witness reports cigar-shaped alien-like craft
Canadian National Newspaper
A California witness at La Mesa pulled over to get a better look at a "grayish-colored, blimp or cigar-shaped object seen in the southwest skies in full daylight" on April 17, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness ...
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PENNY Stock News, Apr 23, 2012

penny stocksMajor Penny Stock Gainers Of The Day (SEFE, LQMT, IMDC, HBRM)
Retirement Planning
By Scott Sheffield Sefe Incorporated(OTC:SEFE) continued to hit new highs on Monday and the stock soared another 17.14% to $2.07 after creating a new 52-week high of $2.07. Moreover, volume is amazing with more than 6.71 millionshares traded hands, ...
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SEFE as the next LEXG? 4 Penny Stocks With Volume: SNPK, MSLP, BSPM, CLNT
Active Investor
What goes up in the penny stock world inevitably gets introduced to gravity. So if you trade them, trade with caution. SEFE, Inc. (OTC:SEFE) is up 17.71% today at $2.07. SEFE is trading huge volume today with 7 million shares traded, ...
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NY TIMES News, Apr 23, 2012

Walmart Responds To NY Times Report Of Bribery In Mexico
KUAR
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an 8000-word investigativereport alleging Walmart, the world's largest retailer conducted a massive bribery campaign in its quest to expand retail operations in Mexico. As Jacqueline Froelich with ...
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NY Times' One-Sided Report On Keystone Pipeline Fight
Media Matters for America (blog)
A Media Matters report published earlier this year demonstrated how news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline has largely mirrored pipeline proponents' preferred framing by overstating the jobs impact of the project while overlooking potential ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 23, 2012

Tsunami Scare Shows Gaps as Thousands Miss Quake Warnings
BusinessWeek
As he pulled over, the 34-year-old manager at the Indonesian Red Cross saw hordes of people racing out of houses and realized what was happening: anearthquake. The 8.6-magnitude temblor and aftershocks in the Indian Ocean on April 11 and ensuing ...
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3.9 Quake Hits Orange County--What did you Feel? Any Damages?
Patch.com
An earthquake was based on San Juan Capistrano. Surrounding areas felt it around 10:40 am Monday. What did you feel, and where are you? By Peter Schelden The quake struck at 10:37 am about two miles north-northeast of Dana Point and three miles ...
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CNN World News, Apr 23, 2012

NBA reviews World Peace's less than peaceable act
CNN
By Lateef Mungin, CNN James Harden of the Oklahoma City Thunder lies on the court after being hit by Metta World Peace on Sunday. (CNN) -- As theworld knows, peace can sometimes be fleeting. One-time basketball bad boy Ron Artest, who changed his name ...
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Shelling hits Hama as more UN monitors expected in Syria
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Heavy shelling hit the Syrian city of Hama Monday, opposition activists said, days after the UN Security Council voted to send as many as 300 observers to monitor a tenuous cease-fire. At least 42 people were killed ...
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BEST Anything, Apr 23, 2012

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Kimberly-Clark Named Among Top 20 Of World's Best Corporate Citizens For ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) was recently recognized as one of the top 20 "BestCorporate Citizens" by Corporate Responsibility Magazine for the fourth consecutive year.
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Granny knows best: Olay named top beauty brand in the world... as 'legacy ...
Daily Mail
By Hannah Rand The sixty-year-old company beat the likes of Avon, Nivea and L'Oreal - and hundreds of newer, trendier products, to the top spot. The report highlights the astonishing staying power of 'legacy brands'. Of the top 50 brands named, ...
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ACTIONAID News, Apr 23, 2012

Children in school is not enough – they must learn something there
The Guardian (blog)
A set of 12 core international benchmarks developed by ActionAid and the Global Campaign for Education have been widely agreed. Until we see new energy being invested in female literacy, we cannot be surprised that children struggle to learn.
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Snatching opportunity out of the jaws of crisis? | ActionAid
Snatching opportunity out of the jaws of crisis? ... Last month I went to Haiti to meet ActionAid staff, our partners, political leaders and to get a sense of our ...
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Apr 23, 2012

Island Trees Freshman Alexa Dolgos Shines in Athletics: a Fan's View
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network – 11 minutes ago Island Trees freshman Alexa Dolgos accomplished more in her first year of high school than most student-athletesdo in their entire careers. Despite playing against girls two to three years her elder on the soccer ...
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Reuters Sports Schedule at 1400 GMT on Monday, April 23
Reuters
April 23 (Reuters) - Reuters sports schedule at 1400 GMT on Monday (times GMT): - - - - OLYMPICS PRETORIA - Foreign-born athletes who have taken UK citizenship ahead of the London Games have been dubbed "Plastic Brits" by critics but the most famous ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Apr 23, 2012

Health Buzz: Brides Try Feeding Tube Diet
U.S. News & World Report
Also known as the KE method, it's the latest wedding crash diet, and it's raising eyebrows among health experts. The 10-day plan requires brides-to-be to live with a nasogastric tube inserted through their nose and threaded into their stomach.
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DIED, Apr 23, 2012

Baseball bat beating victim dies; death ruled homicide
News Sentinel
Susan Lombardi, 42, the victim of a baseball bat beating April 13, diedSaturday, the coroner said in a release Monday morning. Her death has been ruled a homicide. According to initial police reports, the Fort Wayne Police Department was called at ...
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London Marathon 2012 death: Claire Squires, 30, collapses and dies in final mile
Daily Mail
By David Baker and Graham Smith A 30-year-old woman diedwhile running the final stretch of the London Marathon, organisers confirmed last night. Claire Squires collapsed at Birdcage Walk, near St James's Park, on the last mile of the 26.2mile course.
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EUROZONE Crisis News, Apr 23, 2012

Euro-Zone Crisis Funds Face a Market Test
Wall Street Journal
The world's finance ministers, who concluded meetings in Washington on Sunday, hope their new funds will convince investors that governments have the financial firepower to combat the crisis. The war chests could be used to provide emergency loans to ...
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SYDNEY (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Australia PPI inflation bolsters rate-cut odds
MarketWatch
By James Glynn SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australian wholesale prices recorded their biggest quarterly fall since late 2009 in the first quarter of 2012, increasing bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut interest rates next week.
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Deans names new Wallabies assistant coaches
SI.com
SYDNEY (AP) -Australia rugby coach Robbie Deans has made three new appointments to his coaching staff ahead of mid year tests against Scotland and after the cleanout that followed last year's World Cup failure. Tony McGahan, who succeeded Ireland coach ...
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FRANCE Election News, Apr 23, 2012


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Sarkozy faces runoff in France elections
Fox News
April 23: French President and UMP party candidate for the elections Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at his campaign headquarters the morning after the first round of voting in Paris.AP PARIS – Francois Hollande charged back into campaign mode Monday with ...
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NARUPAI ISLAND (Hom Island, Australia) Info, Apr 23, 2012


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DARWIN (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Crocodile-fighting Australian town hits gas-fueled economic fast lane
Chicago Daily Herald
This is the new face of Darwin, a transformation from the capital of Australia'shardest-drinking region, where a crocodile is caught almost every day, into a boomtown enriched by gas and bolstered by its location between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, ...
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Josh Waters Wins Both Australian Superbike Races At Hidden Valley
RoadracingWorld.com
The QBE Australian Superbike Championship returns to the track in a fortnight alongside the V8 Supercars at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway. AUSTRALIAN SUPERBIKE C'SHIP at Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin. Rd 2. Race 1: Superbike: J Waters (Suzuki) 1, ...
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ADELAIDE (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Apollo confirms new iron mineralisation at Australian prospect
Energy Business Review
Apollo Minerals has discovered iron mineralization at the Sequoia East anomaly in South Australia following assay results from Amdel Adelaide's mineral laboratory. The assays confirm significant proportion of higher grade intersections at Sequoia East ...
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Australian Market Trades Weak
NASDAQ
Among bank stocks, ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac are up marginally, while National Australia Bank is down 0.3 percent from its previous closing price. Bendigo & Adelaide Bank is up 0.3 percent, while Bank of Queensland is trading ...
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BRISBANE (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Deal of the week: Hines sees opportunities Down Under
Houston Chronicle
By Katherine Feser Hines Global REIT has acquired 144 Montague inBrisbane, Queensland, Australia. Real estate page 04/23/2012 -- deal of the week -- / HC Houston-based Hines has expanded into Australia with the purchase of its first office building ...
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Roar win consecutive finals on late disputed goal
SI.com
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -Albanian striker Besart Berisha's second goal of the match on a heavily disputed penalty after seven minutes of added time gave the Brisbane Roar their second straight A-League football title on Sunday, a 2-1 win over the ...
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PERTH (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Roar win consecutive finals on late disputed goal
SI.com
... Australia (AP) -Albanian striker Besart Berisha's second goal of the match on a heavily disputed penalty after seven minutes of added time gave the Brisbane Roar their second straight A-League football title on Sunday, a 2-1 win over the Perth ...
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MELBOURNE (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Australia's Biota, Nabi to merge, to list on Nasda
MarketWatch
MELBOURNE -(MarketWatch)- Australian drug development company Biota Holdings Ltd. BTA.AU said Monday it plans to merge with Nabi Biopharmaceuticals NABI to form a combined company to be listed on Nasdaq. Biota said in a statement the move to the US was ...
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Australia's Biota to take over US drug maker Nabi
Reuters
| MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian flu drug maker Biota Holdings (BTA.AX) has agreed to take over US firm Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI.O) to create a $258 million group and move to the United States, where investors value biotech research more highly ...
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CANBERRA (Australia) News, Apr 23, 2012


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Struck by Canberra's mining curveballs
Business Spectator
One of the risks Australia faces is that in Canberra, those who make decisions do not always read such books. Mining unions are not interested. The prices of Australia's major minerals, such as iron ore, coal, gas etc. have risen well above the ...
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Much for Pocock to like in Canberra
The Australian
Whether that means Pocock is serious about joining them is unclear, but he did consider making the move to Canberra when he was last out of contract. All indications suggest Pocock will remain at the Western Force, particularly after the departure of ...
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