Survey: Many believe in divine intervention

"CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans. ...

SC Stays Capital Punishment of Six Mumbai Blasts Convicts: TADA Court Hard Wo...

"New Delhi (ABC Live): The Supreme Court of India on Monday stayed the death sentence of Abdul Ghani Turk till further order."

Why corporate America wants old people dead

"Their dying makes moneyMedicine, hospitals, medical paraphernalia, are all industries thatmake money from the dying. An old person in the hospital isn’t there toget better, but rather to be kept in a state of high-maintenancealmost-deadness for as long as possible. The...

Turkey planes bomb northern Iraq

"Large numbers of Turkish fighter jets have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, reports say. Turkish officials said the warplanes had targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in areas near the...

Gore and Nobel Win: A coup for junk science!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Coup for non believers, whereby it seems everybody's crackpot theories like the GAYBOMB (Taxpayers paid for this?) can line up for a Nobel Peace Prize along with the...

Afghanistan: Well Meaning Futility

About the Author"Tony Clifton worked for Newsweek for 30 years and covered the wars in Biafra and Vietnam, the Lebanon civil war, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the 1971 Bangladesh war and subsequent India-Pakistan...

MoveOn's Latest Futile Effort to Go After Murdoch

AdAge usually doesn't get political but their review of MoveOn's attempt to stand between Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal is weirdly ferocious.  What gives?"MoveOn, not content with beclowning itself by...

China puts moratorium on new internet cafes

"Mommy, what is that man doing standing in front of that tank?":"The Chinese government has announced its latest futile attempt to hold back the tidal wave of free digital information that is bound to flood the...

China puts moratorium on new internet cafes

"Mommy, what is that man doing standing in front of that tank?":"The Chinese government has announced its latest futile attempt to hold back the tidal wave of free digital information that is bound to flood the country sooner or later, placing a ban on the licensing of new...

Robert Fisk: Olmert undone by the militia he said he could destroy

"So it has come to this. All those bodies, all those photographs of dead children - more than 1,400 cadavers (we are not including the 230 or so Hizbollah fighters and the Israeli soldiers who died) - are to be commemorated with the possible resignation of an Israeli prime...

Five common exercises you should never do

Sit-ups: Not only are sit-ups bad for your neck, but they're also one of the least-effective abdominal exercises you can do. Leg Extensions: The four parts of your quadriceps are designed to work together as one, but a recent study in Medicine & Science in Sports &...

Fiji Alert: Armed soldiers raid NLTB office

"Update: 12.55PM Armed soldiers have raided the Suva offices of the Native Land Trust Board the body entrusted with managing native land on behalf of indigenous landowners. Witnesses say a group arrived shortly after midday and entered the boards offices, which also houses...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and salads. ...

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