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- South Africa mines minister reassures foreign investors
- VIDEO: Hurricane Isaac sweeps into Louisiana
- VIDEO: Ann Romney pays tribute to Mitt
- VIDEO: Ann Romney pays tribute to Mitt
- Study links teen marijuana use to IQ decline
- Got IRS Penalties? Try Reliance on Adviser Defense
- Merkel to Press Fair Trade in China
- Clinton set to take U.S. Asia push to South Pacific
- The Right Way to Speak to Yourself
- NASA Finds Multiple Planets Circling Binary Star System
- Yes, You Can Play 'Guild Wars 2' in an Overflow Server with Your Friends
- Argentines sweep world tango competition
- VIDEO: Hurricane Isaac comes ashore
- Back To School Tax Tips
- Do They Learn Enough Latin At Groton To Understand Quid Pro Quo ?
- Profit Plunges At Chinese Billionaire Li Shuirong's Rongsheng Petro Chemical
- Oh, So That's Why College is So Expensive.
- In Syria, a Small, but Powerful Force
- Germany Split Over Child-Subsidy Proposal
- Doctor Who Producer: 'Doctor Who Is Bigger Than Carrie Bradshaw'
| South Africa mines minister reassures foreign investors Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:58 PM PDT PERTH (Reuters) - South Africa's institutions provide protection for foreign investors in the resources sector, its mining minister said on Wednesday, seeking to reassure about the stability of the sector after a recent wave of labor unrest and deadly violence.
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| VIDEO: Hurricane Isaac sweeps into Louisiana Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:52 PM PDT Hurricane Isaac has made landfall in the US state of Louisiana, and is heading towards New Orleans, exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina caused devastation in the city.
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| VIDEO: Ann Romney pays tribute to Mitt Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:27 PM PDT Ann Romney has paid tribute to her husband at the Republican Party Convention in Florida
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| VIDEO: Ann Romney pays tribute to Mitt Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:27 PM PDT Ann Romney has paid tribute to her husband at the Republican Party Convention in Florida
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| Study links teen marijuana use to IQ decline Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:16 PM PDT Users who became dependent on the drug before 18 saw later decline, study of 1,000 New Zealand residents claims.
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| Got IRS Penalties? Try Reliance on Adviser Defense Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT Reasonable Doubt (1936 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) No one wants trouble with the IRS, especially not penalties. But they are a part of audits and can be downright Draconian. Getting out of penalties can be a big accomplishment. One area of frequent flubs is IRS Form 3520. People know about FBARs these days and [...]
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| Merkel to Press Fair Trade in China Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:55 PM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to travel to Beijing this week for her second trip to China this year, as she seeks to build relations between Europe's largest economy and the world's most populous nation.
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| Clinton set to take U.S. Asia push to South Pacific Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will venture to the South Pacific this week as she takes Washington's bid to reassert itself against China to a remote corner of the world where the power rivalry is increasingly apparent.
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| The Right Way to Speak to Yourself Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:02 PM PDT "Who can tell me what holiday is coming up next week?" Dorit* looked around the room at the circle of six year olds, almost all of whom raised, or rather waved, their hands eagerly. I was with my daughter in her first grade classroom at her Jewish day school and I [...]
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| NASA Finds Multiple Planets Circling Binary Star System Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT Astronomers with NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a star system with multiple planets orbiting two stars.
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| Yes, You Can Play 'Guild Wars 2' in an Overflow Server with Your Friends Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:14 PM PDT Guild Wars 2 (GW2) started off with a bang, with more than one million gamers playing over the three-day Headstart, and over 400,000 of us online at once. That's quite a success. Almost too much of one. Gamers found themselves in the overflow server, rather than the servers of their choice--and the choice of their buddies. This left many believing that they would have to game on their own, as the overflow server would prevent them from being able to slay fiends with friends.
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| Argentines sweep world tango competition Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:49 PM PDT
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| VIDEO: Hurricane Isaac comes ashore Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:46 PM PDT Hurricane Isaac has come ashore in south-eastern Louisiana and is heading towards New Orleans. Danny Bourque filmed this footage of a stormy Lake Pontchartrain as the hurricane approached.
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| Do They Learn Enough Latin At Groton To Understand Quid Pro Quo ? Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT Groton School (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Given all the problems that there are in the world, I have not been very concerned about private schools not charging enough, but it is good to know there is somebody paying attention. Not too long ago, the lead op-ed in the New York Times was titled [...]
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| Profit Plunges At Chinese Billionaire Li Shuirong's Rongsheng Petro Chemical Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:05 PM PDT First-half profit plunged 77% from a year earlier at Rongsheng Petro Chemical, one of China's largest non-government petrochemical makers, amid a decline in demand for its products such as PTA, the company said in a statement this morning. Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng said revenue in first six months rose by 6.5% to 11.45 [...]
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| Oh, So That's Why College is So Expensive. Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT Paul Partridge is a friend and the co-founder of ComepleteCollegePlanningSolutions.com. He is the person I send families to when they want to save on how much they actually pay for college. Some colleges cost over $55,000 per year. This post is Paul's quest to find out why. When I attended college [...]
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| In Syria, a Small, but Powerful Force Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:20 PM PDT The country's Alawite minority group appears to hold the key as a last line of defense to the Assad regime.
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| Germany Split Over Child-Subsidy Proposal Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:29 PM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is pushing an expensive proposal to subsidize parents who stay out of the workforce to care for their young children.
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| Doctor Who Producer: 'Doctor Who Is Bigger Than Carrie Bradshaw' Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:40 PM PDT Caroline Skinner, producer of Doctor Who, knows everything there is to know about the upcoming season of the BBC TV show. She was either gracious enough to share some details with me or sadistic enough to torment me by not revealing all. Either way, I know that the next few episodes are what she considers "five big blockbuster movies every week," and they sound exciting and dramatic (and not here soon enough).
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