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Philippines Declares Emergency After Violence

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Carlos H. Conde - Nov. 25 (News Report) - Two provinces in the troubled south of the Philippines were placed under emergency rule on Tuesday as authorities discovered more bodies of people who were abducted and slaughtered in violence tied to the country’s perennially violent election season.

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Madagascar's lemurs in trouble

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Robyn Dixon - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Its endless virgin forests have been decimated and Madagascar has been left paralyzed and lawless in the wake of a coup this year — perfect conditions for the pillaging of the lemurs' remaining habitat.

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Oil Sands Threaten Our Survival, Al Gore Warns

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Oakland Ross - Nov. 24 (News Report) - "Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer," the former U.S. vice-president told the Star in an interview prior to a Toronto speaking engagement scheduled for Tuesday evening.

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A Bing deal for Microsoft, News Corp.?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Tim Arango, Ashlee Vance - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Microsoft has been in early discussions about a pact to pay News Corp. to remove links to its news content from Google's search engine and display them exclusively on Microsoft's Bing. If such an arrangement came to pass, it would be a watershed moment in the history of the Internet, and set off a fierce debate over the future of content online.

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Wall Street Plays Hardball

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Business Week - By Theo Francis - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Across the nation, local governments and related public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to UBS, Goldman Sachs (GS), and other financial giants on investment deals gone wrong.

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Farmer Ants Fertilize Their Gardens With Bacteria

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Brandon Keim - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and one secret of their agricultural success is bacteria, which the ants use like fertilizer.

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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By V. Dion Haynes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment

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A Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brad Stone, Stephanie Rosenbloom - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.

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Darwin's masterpiece revisited - 11 November 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Steve Jones - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Unique among scientific theories, evolutionary biology finds its roots in a popular book by a single author.

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Global warming dangers 'alarming'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:04:15 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Three UK groups studying climate change have issued an unprecedented statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. The Royal Society, Met Office, and Natural Environment Research Council say the science of climate change is more alarming than ever.

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Portrayal in Palin book irks ex-aide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - Nov. 24 (News Report) - "I'm just pilloried right and left and turned into the big bad wolf here for stuff I didn't do," said Bitney, who is now an aide to Valdez Republican Rep. John Harris. "It's like I'm this fictional character that she's decided to make me out to be this sort of incompetent slob."

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Lieberman's Stand: No Public Option

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - Nov. 24 (News Analysis) - The Connecticut senator says any public option will compel him to block a final vote on the health bill. His objection, he says, is based on fiscal risk.

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Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Kate Ravillious - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Just months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by and ice age

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Scenes from Iowa's recession