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- Envoy Annan calls Syria mission a 'failure'
- Roadside bombs kill 14 in southern Afghanistan
- 4 Chinese miners rescued after 3 days underground
- Did Michael Bay 'Borrow' David Fincher's Directing Style?
- The Direct Costs of Energy - Hydro&Nuclear Best, Solar Still Lagging
- Syria's fighting spills into Lebanon, five killed
- CLANG Is Kickstarting Toward The Finish Line
- Donors offer $16 billion Afghan aid at Tokyo conference
- China dismisses Japan plan to buy disputed islands
- Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit Is a Grand Gift
- Samsung Galaxy S3 'Designed For Humans' Ad Brings Back That Morning In America Charm
- China dismisses Japan plan to buy disputed islands
- Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence
- Taxing Marriage To Fund Domestic Violence Grants - Sense Or Nonsense ?
- VIDEO: Mexicans challenge election in march
- Protesters Rally Against Mexico's Election Result
- Protesters march against Mexico's president-elect
- Rival supporters clash in Venezuela election campaign
- 3 Chinese miners rescued after 3 days underground
- Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence
| Envoy Annan calls Syria mission a 'failure' Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:04 PM PDT UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan tells French newspaper his peace plan has been unsuccessful, as bombings continue across Syria.
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| Roadside bombs kill 14 in southern Afghanistan Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:14 PM PDT Afghan authorities say two roadside bombs have killed 14 civilians in southern Afghanistan.
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| 4 Chinese miners rescued after 3 days underground Posted: 07 Jul 2012 08:16 PM PDT
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| Did Michael Bay 'Borrow' David Fincher's Directing Style? Posted: 07 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT David Fincher has directed Alien 3, Fight Club, Zodiac, and The Social Network, among others. Michael Bay has directed Bad Boys, the Transformers movies, and The Island, among others. Besides the fact that they're successful Hollywood directors, what else do they have in common? Well, both of them started their careers directing music videos. Also, along with his partners, Fincher created Propaganda Films, and Bay had worked for Propaganda. But there's something else they have in common. Something...larger.
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| The Direct Costs of Energy - Hydro&Nuclear Best, Solar Still Lagging Posted: 07 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT The actual costs to produce electricity from nuclear, solar, coal and hydroelectric - hydro, nuclear and gas are the cheapest (at the present low cost of natural gas which seems to be rising again) and solar is still the most expensive by far.
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| Syria's fighting spills into Lebanon, five killed Posted: 07 Jul 2012 10:31 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's conflict spilled further into Lebanon on Saturday when mortar fire from President Bashar al-Assad's forces hit villages in the north, killing five people after rebels crossed the border to seek refuge, residents said.
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| CLANG Is Kickstarting Toward The Finish Line Posted: 07 Jul 2012 05:34 PM PDT With just 35 hours to go, Neal Stephenson's CLANG project has less than $18,000 to go in its Kickstarter drive. For those of you interested in the motion-controller based swordfighting game, now would be a good time to kick in. I won't lead you blindly forward, however. There's always a risk [...]
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| Donors offer $16 billion Afghan aid at Tokyo conference Posted: 07 Jul 2012 08:31 PM PDT
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| China dismisses Japan plan to buy disputed islands Posted: 07 Jul 2012 09:16 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said it would continue to take "necessary measures" to safeguard its sovereignty over a number of disputed islands in the East China Sea after Japan said it was considering a plan to "buy" them from private landowners. The uninhabited islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, have long been the centre of maritime territorial disputes between China and its neighbors, all of which cite historical and other claims over fishing areas and potentially rich gas deposits. ...
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| Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit Is a Grand Gift Posted: 07 Jul 2012 05:29 PM PDT Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit is a marvelous intellectual and social history of economics, economists, and economic times during the century when economics came into its own, 1850 through 1950. The book is a true page-turner. Nasar weaves people, places, politics, banking, social injustice, war, depression, recession, personal relations, personalities, sex, anti-Semitism, [...]
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| Samsung Galaxy S3 'Designed For Humans' Ad Brings Back That Morning In America Charm Posted: 07 Jul 2012 05:15 PM PDT Video Apparently Samsung's Galaxy SIII could be the iPhone killer. Whoever is running the phone's ad campaign, however, is going to need to do better than the above ad. First of all, it's a tiny bit incoherent. We're introduced to a phone which apparently finds its design inspiration in nature. Of course, what [...]
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| China dismisses Japan plan to buy disputed islands Posted: 07 Jul 2012 09:18 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said it would continue to take "necessary measures" to safeguard its sovereignty over a number of disputed islands in the East China Sea after Japan said it was considering a plan to "buy" them from private landowners.
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| Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:01 PM PDT
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| Taxing Marriage To Fund Domestic Violence Grants - Sense Or Nonsense ? Posted: 07 Jul 2012 04:32 PM PDT Poster - Domestic Violence Awarness Month (Photo credit: USAG-Humphreys) I'm of two minds about Jillian Jacobson's unsuccessful class action suit against the County Clerk of Du Page County, and the Treasurer and the Attorney General of Illinois. She was suing for the five dollars extra that the Clerk charged her for [...]
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| VIDEO: Mexicans challenge election in march Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:48 PM PDT Tens of thousands of people in Mexico City are demonstrating against the result of the presidential election, which was won by Enrique Pena Nieto.
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| Protesters Rally Against Mexico's Election Result Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:35 PM PDT Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Mexico's capital on Saturday to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his long-ruling party of buying votes.
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| Protesters march against Mexico's president-elect Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:15 PM PDT
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| Rival supporters clash in Venezuela election campaign Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:42 PM PDT
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| 3 Chinese miners rescued after 3 days underground Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:17 PM PDT China has pulled to safety the first three of about a dozen miners trapped underground for more than three days in a flooded coal mine pit.
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| Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:01 PM PDT TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libyans are celebrating their first free national election in 60 years after defying violence to turn out for a poll widely seen as drawing a line under Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship.
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