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WASHINGTON -- Republicans love to get their hands on the Democrats' health care legislation. They show it to the cameras at every opportunity, even piling one version on top of another to make a big pile look even bigger.
Water - the oil and gas of the not-too-distant future What's news is this: «The world community is hoping that Russia will soon become a supplier to the countries of Europe not only of energy inputs, but of fresh...
By Anjana Jayashan in Colombo A Little girl, an avaricious reader, even when she can’t understand what is in those books, but she continues to read Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, Federico Garcia Lorca and Simone de Beauvoir, Desmond...
Translators are cooks trying to follow recipes to the letter, but by necessity they have to use the ingredients and equipment they’ve got at home. They make do and hope the approximations taste good. The American/Russian...
Utah's two GOP senators, not surprisingly, hate Senate Democrats' final health-care proposal. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, attacked it in national media outlets, many of which quoted him saying the upcoming debate on it will "be a...
On this day in 1910, Francisco Madero launched a failed revolt that nonetheless sparked the Mexican Revolution by inspiring hope in such leaders as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata , who then mobilized their ragged armies. More...
W hile much of the media’s attention over this year’s Nobel Prizes was over Barack Obama’s shock Nobel Peace Prize Award, a similarly contentious (if more under the radar) Nobel Prize went to Romanian/German author Herta...
Utah's two GOP senators, not surprisingly, hate Senate Democrats' final health care proposal. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, attacked it in national media outlets, many of which quoted him saying the upcoming debate on it will "be a...
This year, my personal goal was to read 24 books. I’m happy to report that I have already exceeded this goal, and it’s only November. I’m indeed a little proud of myself. I have already read 27 books so far, probably 28 by this...
Oscar News: Candidates in same category don't guarantee Oscar doom -- Many might say that having multiple potential Oscar nominees from the same film competing in the same acting category is a curse in blessing's clothing.
