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U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 29, 2007 @ 10:00am neoform

Daily Mail -- For six years, Tania Head symbolised the courage and determination of 9/11 survivors. She told a dramatic story of how she was set ablaze when a plane smashed into the 78th floor of the World Trade Centre south tower as she waited for a business meetin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Three men could face the death penalty after being charged Tuesday with special-circumstances murder in the fatal shooting of a longtime PC World magazine editor during a home invasion robbery in Pittsburg, authorities said. Tremaine Amos, 25, of Bay P.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 9:22pm neoform

BBC News -- The embattled World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, has indicated he does not plan to resign over a pay scandal. Mr Wolfowitz told a news conference: "This is important work and I intend to continue it." He has been under pressure to quit after admi.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 12:31pm neoform

BBC News -- Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at intellectual property protection in the US and finds it somewhat out of step with the rest of the world. The International Intellectual Property Alliance, an association that brings together US lobby.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 9:16pm neoform

Information Liberation -- In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 11:03am mrmdc

MSNBC -- U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 9:17am neoform

New York Times -- The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loom over the former World Trade Center site this September 11 perhaps more than at any other anniversary of the attacks. The firefighters who helped rescue New Yorkers on September 11 -- and lat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:44pm neoform

CNN -- World aviation record-holder Steve Fossett is missing and a search is under way in western Nevada, a Nevada aviation spokeswoman said Tuesday. Fossett took off in a single-engine plane from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 3.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Jul 21, 2007 @ 5:10am neoform

Washington Post -- In the advertising world, brand identity is everything. Volvo means safety. Colgate means clean. IPod means cool. But since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, its "show of force" brand has proved to have limited appeal to Iraqi consumers, according t.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

Alter Net -- Junk food diets and shoddy health care are making Americans shorter than the residents of all the countries in Western Europe. According to a new study, white and black Americans have been shrinking dramatically relative to their European counterparts.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 5:49pm neoform

CNN -- President Bush marked Memorial Day with a call for Americans to stand firm in their efforts against U.S. enemies around the world and with a tribute to fallen troops. "From their deaths must come a world where the cruel dreams of tyrants and terrorists.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

SF Gate -- California took its final step toward weaning itself off coal last week, while the rest of the nation -- and the world -- continued going resolutely in the opposite direction, one that environmentalists say bodes ill for the fight against global warming... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:51am neoform

Alter Net -- It is now beyond dispute that our culture is damaging the world. The only way to stop us ruining our planet is to give it legal rights. It is now beyond dispute that our culture is damaging the world. Many attempts are being made to remedy the situatio.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 10:20pm neoform

Washington Post -- The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

Alter Net -- A recent New York Times article about the Libby trial is another example of their weird world view. Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something "corrupt" and then embrace it as "crucial." Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

Reuters -- Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 9:14pm neoform

BBC News -- While the rest of the world argues about the best way to curb future climate change, says Patricia Cochran in this week's Green Room, native communities within the Arctic Circle are having to draw on their own ancestral strengths to adapt to a rapidly ch.. Read More