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WASHINGTON POST News, May 14, 2012


I'm not quitting the church
Washington Post
Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an “open letter to 'liberal' and 'nominal' Catholics.” Its headline commanded: “It's Time to Quit the Catholic Church.
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"Playing With Fire: Pakistan At War With Itself" by Pamela Constable
Boise State Public Radio
A veteran correspondent for the Washington Post, Constable has reportedextensively from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Iraq for the past 14 years. She steps behind the headlines to provide a revealing portrait of this nuclear-armed nation.
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I'm Not Quitting the Church
RealClearPolitics
By EJ Dionne WASHINGTON -- Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an "open letter to 'liberal' and 'nominal' Catholics." Its headline commanded: "It's Time to Quit the Catholic ...
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Wonkbook: The losses and lessons of Hedgegate
Washington Post (blog)
Michael Birnbaum in The Washington Post. KRUGMAN: "we're talking about months, not years, for this to play out." @TheStalwart: Weird. As @renovatio_news points out, #quediceKrugman (What Krugman Says) is trending in Spain. http://twitpic.com/9ktvbo 2) ...
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'Total barbarity' as Mexican cartel dumps 49 torsos along highway
Washington Post
More world news coverage: - Notable incidents of violence, mass graves in Mexico over the past year - Greece appears headed to new elections as talks stall - Ex-Taliban leader-turned peace negotiator shot dead - Read more headlines from around the ...
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How the iPad has changed news consumption
VatorNews
The speed of downloads has improved dramatically, and the quality of videocontinues to improve. And, finally, advertisers are at least trying the platforms. Let me start with the The Daily, the first IPad native news business.
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RSCC and Hughes Sign Technology Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding
Sacramento Bee
"We look forward to working with RSCC in exploring new value-added broadband data and video solutions in Russia, leveraging the complementary experience of both companies in satellite technologies and service delivery.
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Space Systems/Loral Provides High Capacity Broadband Satellite To Hughes
Sacramento Bee
By Hughes Network Systems, LLC PALO ALTO, Calif. and GERMANTOWN, Md., May 14, 2012 -- PALO ALTO, Calif. and GERMANTOWN, Md., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced ...
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Silver Wheaton Reports a Strong Start to 2012 With Record Quarterly Revenues ...
Sacramento Bee
Announced attributable proven and probable silver reserves of 798 million ounces, nearly twice the reserves of any other silver company in the world. "Solid operating performance from across our portfolio of mines led to a strong start in 2012," said ...
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Cogent Communications CEO to Present at Two Upcoming Conferences
Sacramento Bee
By Cogent Communications WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI), one of the largest Internet service providers in the world, today announced that Dave Schaeffer, Cogent's chief executive officer, ...
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Virgin America Awarded Nonstop Flight Service From The Bay Area To Washington...
Sacramento Bee
"We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring our unique brand of service to this underserved route – and to better connect one of the world's leading economies to our nation's capital," said David Cush, President and CEO of Virgin America.
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Lighting Science Group Lights Up Washington D.C. With Ultra-Efficient LED ...
Sacramento Bee
By Lighting Science Group SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group (OTCBB: LSCG), one of theworld's leading LED lighting companies, today joined Washington, DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray and officials from the District ...
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UNITED TO CELEBRATE NEW SERVICE BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO ANDWASHINGTON REAGAN
Sacramento Bee
"We are delighted today to celebrate our expanded service between San Francisco and Washington," said Anthony Toth. "We provide travelers in San Francisco with more flights to more destinations than any other airline in the world.
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New Research Contrasts U.S. and U.K. Attitudes to Armed Services
Sacramento Bee
By lordashcroftpolls.com One third of Americans have approached military personnel to thank them for their service, compared to just 8 per cent of people in Britain, according to report released today by Lord Ashcroft. The British peer surveyed the ...
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The Ghosts That Haunt Big Law
Lawfuel
The Washington Post's Catherine Ho looked at the Dewey implosion and some of the reasons behind it. As recently as December, Dewey & LeBoeuf had more than 1000 lawyers in 26 offices around the world, annual revenue close to $800 million, and attorneys ...
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Leading lifestyle management firm looking for high end performers and rising ...
Sacramento Bee
By HET Communications WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The United States is at the forefront of entrepreneurial innovation and has always been fertile soil for creative ideas. US firms have constantly been re-inventing and expanding the ...
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Virtela Named 2012 American Technology Awards Finalist For Cloud-based Mobile ...
Sacramento Bee
By Virtela DENVER, May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Virtela, the world'slargest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, announced today that its Cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) Service has been named a 2012 American ...
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The JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) Report
Live Trading News
Two of Drew's colleagues who were involved with the trades; London-based Achilles Macris and Javier Martin-Artajo, are expected to be asked to leave their posts. The departures come after the Chief Investment Office, mismanaged a large portfolio of ...
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WestJet launches service to the Windy City
Sacramento Bee
These new flights are timed to connect with WestJet's code-share partner, American Airlines, to cities such as Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. American Airlines is code-sharing on the Chicago flights; therefore, WestJet guests have the ability to ...
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The Morning Download: CIOs Who Provide a Tonic to the Business
Wall Street Journal (blog)
One recent success is the posting of the world's largest set of data on human genetic variation by the NIH on the Amazon Web Services cloud. Reuven Cohen of Forbes writes that the Big Data Research and Development project is part of a larger strategy ...
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New Study Shows U.S. Consumers Support Convenience Of Point-of-Purchase Sales...
Sacramento Bee
By International Council of Shopping Centers WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) released the results of a national survey finding that an overwhelming 86% of respondents feel ...
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Tii Network Technologies, Inc. Agrees To Be Acquired By Kelta, Inc. For $2.15 ...
Sacramento Bee
Tii Network Technologies' stockholders also may read and copy anyreports, statements and other information filed with the SEC at the SEC public reference room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 or visit ...
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Romney: Is there a Romney Doctrine?
msnbc.com
“While the four-minute video features all five Romney sons praising their mother's patience and love, in spite of their boisterousness, it does not include comments from Mitt Romney or any stories about the presumptive Republican nominee's rambunctious ...
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Church's Future May Lie in Past
Albuquerque Journal (subscription)
By EJ Dionne / Syndicated Columnist on Mon, May 14, 2012 Tweet WASHINGTON – Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post cast as an “open letter to 'liberal' and 'nominal' Catholics.
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Albuquerque Journal (subscription)
Complex Commercial Litigation Duo Joins Crowell & Moring, Boosts New York ...
Sacramento Bee
By Crowell & Moring LLP WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring LLP has added two prominent litigators to its growing New York office roster. The additions are Litigation Group partners Edwin M. Baum, a seasoned New York ...
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US Airways Education Foundation Seeks 2012 Non-Profit Grant Applicants
Sacramento Bee
The airline employs more than 32000 aviation professionals worldwide, operates the world's largest fleet of Airbus aircraft and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers its customers more than 20500 daily flights to 1293 airports in 190 ...
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Radiant Logistics Universal Shelf Registration Statement Declared Effective by ...
Sacramento Bee
By Radiant Logistics, Inc. BELLEVUE, Wash., May 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: RLGT), a domestic and international transportation and logistics services company, today reportedthat the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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Silver Wheaton Declares Second Quarterly Dividend Payment for 2012
Sacramento Bee
Silver Wheaton is the largest silver streaming company in the world. Based upon its current agreements, forecast 2012 attributable production is approximately 27 million silver equivalent ounces, including 16500 ounces of gold.
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DARPA Awards BOLT Program $7.1 million Contract to SRI-led Team
Sacramento Bee
SRI is known for world-changing innovations in computing, health and pharmaceuticals, chemistry and materials, sensing, energy, education, national defense, and more. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee.
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Newsweek calls Obama 'The First Gay President' on cover
Fox News
WASHINGTON – Following President Barack Obama's public announcement backing gay marriage last week, Newsweek magazine has featured him on its front cover with the headline, "The First Gay President." With Obama's face pictured looking skyward and a ...
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Germany's Mixed Signals
Business Insider
Last week's media headlines focused on how the election results in France and Greece reflected a wave of rising public resistance across Europe to the austerity programs being championed by Germany, the IMF, and the EU. Less notice has been given to ...
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The horror behind Chen's great escape
Bellingham Herald
In China, the reported sex ratio of births is 100 girls for every 118 boys; the natural norm is 100 girls for every 105 boys. In some regions, an estimated 130 boys are born for every 100 girls. Such extreme imbalance can occur only through extreme ...
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Statoil secures rig for drilling offshore Newfoundland
Sacramento Bee
Statoil is an international energy company with high ambitions for international growth, and with business operations in 37 countries around theworld. Statoil's North American activities are managed out of two main offices located in Houston, Texas, ...
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GreenBiz Group Announces 'VERGE @ Greenbuild, To Be Held In Conjunction With...
Sacramento Bee
The highly successful Washington, DC event featured a diverse ecosystem of federal officials (FERC chairman Jon Wellinghoff, Under Secretary of Defense Dorothy Robyn), thought leaders (Lisa Gansky, Amory Lovins, Tim O'Reilly), entrepreneurs (including ...
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The Parchin Deception
Antiwar.com
And to add a political note to all this: with the media almost openly in bed with President Obama, any war launched by the US before election day is likely to receive nearly uncritical support in such “mainstream” venues as theWashington Post, ...
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Watching TV linked to unhealthy eating: Study
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The Spirit of Geert Wilders
AINA (press release)
The South Australian senator Cory Bernardi met Mr. Wilders on a trip to the Netherlands and came home to headlines like "Senator Under Fire For Ties To Wilders" (The Sydney Morning Herald) and "Calls For Cory Bernardi's Scalp Over Geert Wilders" (The ...
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Boyd Gordon not afraid to get down, dirty for Phoenix Coyotes
Tucson Citizen
They grow up in a world of expectations, hyperbole, competition. The Coyotes are one playoff round away from the Stanley Cup finals in part because players excel in this area and embrace their roles. No one exemplifies that better than Boyd Gordon.
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