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Jan
24th
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The State Capitol of Texas at Dusk (via Stuck in Customs)

The State Capitol of Texas at Dusk (via Stuck in Customs)

Jan
23rd
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Thanks to Republican economic policies, the U.S. economy is robust and job creation is strong.
NRCC
Jan
22nd
Thu
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The best play so far has been to find the firm that’s assumed to be immune and then bet against against them.
Jan
21st
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President Bush acknowledged that before Obama was even sworn in today, he knew his life had changed when his usual morning papers failed to be delivered at the White House.
Jan
16th
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The Arab world has lost $2.5 trillion in the past four months,” Mr Sabah said
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Jan
15th
Thu
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Large quantities of methane gas have been detected on Mars, Nasa scientists have announced in Science journal. The gas could be produced either by geological activity or by life.
Jan
14th
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What a phantasmagorically strange conflict the Arab-Israeli war had become! Here was a Saudi-educated, anti-Shiite (but nevertheless Iranian-backed) Hamas theologian accusing a one-time Israeli Army prison official-turned-reporter of spying for Yasir Arafat’s Fatah, an organization that had once been the foremost innovator of anti-Israeli terrorism but was now, in Mr. Rayyan’s view, indefensibly, unforgivably moderate.
Jan
12th
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Congressional Republicans say Mr. Obama’s stimulus will cost too much, and that over time the economy will cure itself. When critics raised the same objections to F.D.R.’s programs, his relief administrator, Harry Hopkins, had a ready answer: “People don’t eat in the long run. They eat every day.
Jan
10th
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Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea…