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No apocalypse in 2012, says guru

No apocalypse in 2012, says guru By Cesar C. Villariba, Jr. Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines--The world is not going to end in 2012. “We are going to see 2013, as good as 2012,” declared international humanitarian...

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Book Review: 'The Battle for America' by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

"The Battle for America" boldly asserts its own importance in its title, and unlike many such pronouncements, it largely delivers. Through a judicious blend of facts, anecdotes, close-ups and wide-angle shots, it retells the...

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EXCLUSIVE - U.S. arms sales hit record in 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government-to-government arms sales rose 4.7 percent to a record $38.1 billion last year, and are expected to total almost as much in 2010, the Pentagon agency that administers them said on Friday.

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The future of Iranian-American relations

despite concerted efforts by the Israeli right wing and its allies in the US Senate to escalate the situation and manufacture the next war in western Asia, there has been movement toward a "cold peace" between Iran and the...

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Call on President Obama to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month. | Change.org

A visit to one, or both, of these cities as well as a speech to the world from Hiroshima would be a bold statement of hope in the months preceeding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (May 2010). Submitted by...

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München munching

HISTORY Search for München (the German way of writing the name), Bavaria, on the Internet, and you’ll end up with three places: Two are small towns, and the third—Munich—is the third largest city in Germany. The recorded...

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Butler Graduates Head to Spain

Finding a job after graduation hasn’t been easy lately. So five recent Butler graduates decided to take their job searches beyond Craigslist and Career Builder. They moved to Spain. Three of them, Erin Reuland, Dave Demaagd and...

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Members throng new club building

MUAR: The new Tanjung Club building welcomed nearly 200 guests attending its Deepavali and Oktoberfest celebration recently. The clubhouse, located near Jalan Timbalan and not far from the old clubhouse in Tanjung Mas, was...

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Land-rights group RDI gets $9 million from Omidyar Network

The Rural Development Institute said today it received the largest grant in its history -- $9 million over three years -- from the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and...

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BBC promises schedule of tradition and worship this Christmas

Tutu, Dolly Parton, Sheila Hancock and Tony Blair are all featured in the BBC's programming this Christmas. Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:37 (GMT) As part of the BBC's programming to mark Advent, this year Fern Britton...

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