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Archive for December, 2006

A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of […]

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When Is the Right Time for Change?

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

“We’re not ready yet,” shared the party-goer. “We’re not ready for a woman or a black president.”
The statement stunned me. We were in heated conversation about the possibilities of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008. The conversation was of mixed political platforms, but the sentiment seemed common.
“How […]

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs targeting Shi’ites in Baghdad and a town south of the capital killed more than 70 people on Saturday, hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged amid fears of revenge by his Sunni Arab supporters.
In Baghdad, three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the mainly Shi’ite neighborhood […]

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FDA says cloned animals are OK to eat

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

WASHINGTON - The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat.
After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock.
FDA believes “that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to […]

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer implored world leaders on Thursday to prevent the United States from handing over the ousted leader to Iraqi authorities for execution, saying the former dictator should enjoy protection from his enemies as a “prisoner of war.”
Iraq’s highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam’s appeal against his conviction and death […]

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U.S. wants polar bears listed as threatened

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world’s most recognizable animals out of existence.
The administration’s proposal — which was described by an Interior Department official who spoke on […]

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Iran may need nuclear power: study

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Iran’s claim to need nuclear power may be genuine, given that it could run out of oil to export as soon as eight years from now, according to an analysis published on Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences.The study’s author, Roger Stern, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said investment in Iranian […]

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Antarctic ozone layer 90 to 99 per cent gone

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

The study found “massive” and “widespread” localised ozone depletion in the heart of Antartica’s ozone hole region, beginning in the late 1970s, but becoming more pronounced in the 1980s and `90s.
The US government scientists who conducted the study said that there was an almost complete absence of ozone in certain atmospheric air […]

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U.S. military deaths in Iraq pass 9/11 toll

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deaths of six U.S. soldiers in Iraq pushed the American toll beyond the number of victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Separately, at least 36 Iraqis died Tuesday in bombings, officials said, including a coordinated strike that killed 25 in western Baghdad.
The […]

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will start installing 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant from Sunday as an immediate reaction to the U.N. Security Council resolution, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said.
“We will start our installation activities at the Natanz facility from Sunday,” he told the Kayhan newspaper.

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