Investors pulled a record $52.1 billion from U.S.-managed stock and bond mutual funds in the past week, seeking the safety of government-insured bank deposits as the financial crisis worsened.
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]]> The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) on Friday formally approved the increased insurance limit of $250,000 per regular account that was part of the financial rescue legislation enacted last week
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]]> 'I am but one brick in that long … wall of female exploitation and misery' It's a terrible situation," Mylee told WorldNetDaily. "It seems at times as though there isn't a single decent man left in the world. I thought that men were supposed to protect..
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]]> The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008 presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by double digits, 52 percent to 41 perce
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]]> Updated Friday, October 10, 2008 at 4:33 p.m.ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mails that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts.Anchorage Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers ruled Friday in the lawsuit brought by Anchorage resident
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]]> A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.
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]]> Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. Bad news for republicans.
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]]> This toy hedgehog, found in a child's grave at Stonehenge, is proof of what we have always known - children have always loved to play.
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]]> An archaeological dig finishes today (October 10 2008) that is seeking to uncover some of the secrets of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.
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]]> What happened to the prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps? One geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried the lakeside settlement. He's hoping to find funding -- and mummies
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]]> In the course of examination of the archeological monument Yaloman-II they discovered remains of a bridle, a saddle, a quiver with numerous arrows and an iron sword in a sheath.
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]]> The 75-year-old Arden Road resident came across a Bronze-age axe - estimated to be from between 700 and 900 BC - while digging with fellow members of the Coventry Heritage Metal Detectors Society earlier this year.
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]]> What I talk about is something that is simple and yet profound.

Some might find it too simple, but that doesn't mean it is not important.

I talk about the simplicity of breath and the coming and going of each day in your life.
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]]> The Chocó, a region of humid tropical forest in western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots with high levels of endemic species but large-scale habitat loss. The situation is particularly dire in Ecuador
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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. Sen. John McCain's running mate
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]]> Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.
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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor.

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]]> “We judge life by its external components, but is life just external components?

Is life a bunch of happenstances in one’s existence? Or is life something greater? The sum of it is greater than all of those things put together. One life .....
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]]> An anguished lesbian couple have installed CCTV after a string of homophobic attacks at their Wiltshire home.
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The latest campaign from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a more G-rated effort to save “Sea Kittens” — better known as fish. And it
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]]> A Chattanooga woman faces animal cruelty charges after officers find five puppies dead and another clinging to life
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]]> OIPA INDIA & PFA Haryana lodged complaint with the Delhi Police for legal actions against the offenders & to rescue the animals,now under RTI Act, 2005 we needs clarification from the AIIMS administration about the report submitted by the committee &so on
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]]> And on the subject of alternative sources of power, there is the great Escape From Berkeley. It's a road race this weekend from the Bay Area to Vegas. Here's the catch; each competitor gets only one gallon of fuel.
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]]> Boot camps and behavior modification centers for teens and they treatment models they employ are designed to break the child down and build them back up according to that programs doctrine.
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]]> "Sarah takes on Big Oil" is a book about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her battle with the state's three largest oil producers -— ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips
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]]> 'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'
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]]> Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.
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]]> China has suspended the sale and use of an herbal injection used to treat heart disease after six people suffered adverse reactions, including three who died
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]]> A two-year study of how well glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate slow cartilage loss in arthritis patients could not show that the popular nutritional supplements work
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]]> A study links bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastics, to heart disease. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports. Dr.Mercola also suggests BPA – mimicks the sex hormone estradiol -- is a building block for polycarbonate plastics and tough epoxy resins.
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]]> "Once again, a court has overruled the will of the people and taken it upon itself to legalize homosexual "marriage." Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry..."
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]]> As part of the current studies, researchers are examining the scientific basis of "electrical sensitivity," a collection of symptoms, such as headaches and fatigue, that some people believe is caused by exposure to wireless phones and towers.
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]]> This year we topped our goal of planting 30,000, actually ending up with 35,000 new trees. From the nursery in Niamey, the trees were transported 150 km east to Dosso.
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]]> MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has authorized destruction of the Skalkaho wolf pack after repeated wolf attacks on cattle southwest of Philipsburg.


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]]> "Days drag, hope disappears and the future is dim. If you’ve been feeling like this and the black mood is disintegrating your family or jeopardizing your job, today could be a way out..."
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]]> TWISP, Wash. -- With deer hunting season opening Saturday, the state is putting up signs in the Methow Valley to warn hunters that federally protected wolves may be in the area and should not be killed.


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]]> Humans may not like to admit it, but we are exotics in fragile island ecosystems. An "exotic" is a species that has been introduced into an eco-system causing competition with and destruction of native species of both plant and animals.


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]]> Portland, Oregon - (October 7, 2008) Can wolves, humans and livestock live and thrive on the same land? Ranchers and wildlife experts have debated this question for decades—and now a solution may be within reach.
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]]> Just three days after a federal judge returned the gray wolf to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, this wolf was found shot...WARNING! article contains picture of this wolf
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]]> BOISE, Idaho: – After nearly 10 years of working in the field with livestock producers and agency officials, Defenders of Wildlife has released a comprehensive guide that outlines a wide range of nonlethal methods that are working to reduce livestock
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]]> Join Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace and a cast of thousands on November 14-15 for the National Day(s) of Action against Coal and Coal Finance. Things are heating up for the coal barons and the banks and politicians that love them.
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