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‘Global’ thinking won’t necessarily solve the world’s problems, says Janet Daley
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If the talks that resulted in an imperfect deal to combat global warming provided anything, it was a glimpse into a new world order in which international diplomacy will increasingly be shaped by the…
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A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industr…
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Since ancient times people have marked the winter solstice with countless cultural and religious traditions—it’s no coincidence the modern holiday season surrounds the first day of winter.
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Merck & Co. (MRK) named former public-health authority Julie Gerberding as the head of the company’s $5 billion vaccines business, starting Jan. 25.
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Last month the government of Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a partial halt to building in the occupied West Bank under pressure from the US.
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Haverhill – Three friends who played a part in the fatal stabbing of Christopher Gray (right), a developmentally disabled Walmart cashier, are going to prison.
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It had the makings of a nightmare before Christmas: a snowstorm that wrecked the last big shopping weekend of the holiday calendar. Holiday travelers lost in a tangle of flight cancellations. Delivery…
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It had the makings of a nightmare before Christmas: a snowstorm that wrecked the last big shopping weekend of the holiday calendar. Holiday travelers lost in a tangle of flight cancellations. Delivery…
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It had the makings of a nightmare before Christmas: a snowstorm that wrecked the last big shopping weekend of the holiday calendar. Holiday travelers lost in a tangle of flight cancellations. Delivery…
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- December 18th, 2009
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Senate Democratic leaders have laid out an ambitious timetable for passing the health care bill on Christmas Eve. But if they’re successful with their strategy, the vote that matters most and se…
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The iron sign bearing the Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" that spanned the main entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp was stolen before dawn today, Polish police said.
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The United Nations (UN) has licensed the minting of gold bullion coins bearing its logo to provide a "public option" world savings currency.
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A huge granite block thought to have once formed part of a temple pillar in a sunken palace of Cleopatra has been raised from the sea at Alexandria.
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LOUDON – The two-day event in a parking lot south of the grandstand is expected to draw 5,000 people each day. It will feature snocross and ice drag races plus freestyle jumping.
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Salem – An upright hydraulic lift on a container truck punched a large hole in an Interstate 93 overpass I-beam, disrupting the busy highway during the morning commute. The driver, Timothy Ewen…
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Concord – The union representing most of New Hampshire’s 11,500 state workers said Friday it will resume negotiations with Gov. John Lynch’s administration. Two months ago, the union…
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U.N.-backed REDD program could mean billions of dollars for developing countries and forest communities as rich nations buy carbon offsets to meet their emissions reduction obligations at home.
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Twelve years ago, writer-director James Cameron made Titanic, an epic romance that became the highest-grossing film in Hollywood history. He is making cinema history again with groundbreaking new 3D t…
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A Pakistani man accused in last year’s deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, India has recanted his confession saying he was framed by Indian police.
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- December 13th, 2009
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The leaders of seven organisations – representing staff in state and private schools – insisted “excessive bureaucracy” was severely undermining pupils’ education.
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A new “Whack A Banker” amusement arcade game is proving so popular in Britain that the mallets used to clobber them are wearing out fast, its creator said.
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For more than a decade the common currency among cybercriminals has been pilfered credit card numbers, but some underground hackers have learned how to drain money directly from corporate bank account…
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No sucres will be printed or coined, but the virtual currency will be used to manage debts between governments while reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar and on Washington in general.
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The special session of parliament was called to question Iraq’s senior security chiefs, including the defense and interior ministers, about security gaps that allowed the third attack since summ…
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Genocide in the name of the environment is still genocide
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Carbon hysteria reaches its logical conclusion
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A report from the scene of thisSÍ month’s UN climate change conference
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Tens of thousands of activists marched through the Danish capital and around the world Saturday to demand strong international commitments on climate change.
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Witnesses say Islamist militants have executed two men accused by the fighters of murder and adultery.
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Steven Bosworth tells reporters in Tokyo Sunday that he urged North Korea to engage with Japan, including on the issue of abductees.
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Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff.
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Senate Democrats overcame a Republican filibuster to clear the way for a vote Sunday on a huge end-of-year $1.1 trillion spending bill that includes money to run much of the government and pay for Med…
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Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard on Sunday called for the protesters who tore up pictures of the revered Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to be punished, in the latest pressure on the opposition move…
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- December 10th, 2009
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An attempt to take the 2-D fractal art known as the Mandelbrot set into three dimensions yields strange and beautiful results.
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Belgian bibliographer Paul Otlet dies, and with him his dream of the Mundaneum. It was to be a universal — and interlinked — weblike compendium of all the world’s knowledge.
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The Internet, built on open source, may well hasten the creation and demise of tech start-ups, but companies focused on long-term customer value will thrive.
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With Lala now aboard, Apple aims to offer more ways to access and manage iTunes without a download of the software, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Over the past year and a half, the U.S. has stepped up drone strikes against militants in Pakistan — killing as many as a thousand people. Press accounts have largely credited the Central Intell…
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Norway-based Think has resumed producing its small electric car after staving off financial crisis, with first car deliveries due before the end of the year.
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The social identity service has attracted major sites and even more platforms. But where Facebook is planning to take Connect is a big unknown.
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With AOL’s spin-off from Time Warner becoming official Thursday, the once-iconic media company finds itself face to face with old foe Yahoo as both try to resurrect media empires.
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