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New York Times - Wed Dec 2, 11:16 pm ET
Two sisters living on the Upper East Side have been selling handicrafts made by women from an impoverished community of garbage collectors in Cairo for the past 15 years.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:31 am ET
Madrid - A Moroccan representative said Friday there was no need for the United Nations to intervene in the case of Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, whose hunger strike at the airport of the Spanish island of Lanzarote has entered its 19th da...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:31 am ET
Brussels - NATO members and allies pledged this week to send the following reinforcements to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, according to alliance sources. Contributions are defined as combat troops, army training t...
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GameSpot - Fri Dec 4, 12:29 am ET
Loads of bugs make this remake of the first Serious Sam a serious disappointment.
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The Colonial - Fri Dec 4, 9:22 am ET
It’s that time of year. As the Red Queen told Alice in “Through the Looking Glass,” “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
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The Politico - Fri Dec 4, 12:25 am ET
Al Gore sits down with POLITICO to discuss climate issues and the U. N. conference in Copenhagen.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:17 am ET
Turin, Italy - A convicted killer told an Italian court Friday that a mafia boss serving several life terms for a 1993 Cosa Nostra bombing campaign, told him that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was connected to the Sicilian criminal organis...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:17 am ET
Karlsruhe, Germany - German authorities have freed a 24-year-old Kenyan man who was held slave-style at a German riding stables and was forced to hide if the police came snooping. Authorities in the southern city of Karlsruhe said the man worked seve...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:16 am ET
Brussels - NATO foreign ministers on Friday decided to offer Montenegro a plan for how to join the alliance, but agreed that it was too early to offer the same privilege to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the alliance's secretary general said. The decision is a ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 9:16 am ET
Bucharest - Romanian President Traian Basescu and his Socialist rival Mircea Geoana are to compete in a presidential run- off on December 6, following polls in which no candidate won an absolute majority. Survey results from the Insomar Institute ind...
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Marketwire - Fri Dec 4, 9:14 am ET
Company Expects to Exceed 2009 Guidance, With Revenue of Approx. $46 Million, and Operating EBITDA Margins Over 10%
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The Villager - Thu Dec 3, 4:11 pm ET
Lynne Stewart, the leftist ex-lawyer now behind bars at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, at 150 Park Row, is scheduled to appear Dec. 2 in U.S. District Court, where her trial judge may possibly consider lengthening her 28-month sentence for passing messages from an imprisoned terrorist client to his extremist followers in Egypt.
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Asbury Park Press - Fri Dec 4, 4:14 am ET
Afuturistic sequel, more museum laughs and a cartoon character comes to life on DVD this week.
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The Morning Call - Fri Dec 4, 3:57 am ET
Lobby Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Easton Hospital, 250 S. 21st St. Benefits local nursing scholarships.
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CNET - Thu Dec 3, 5:56 pm ET
Upon initial consideration, it seems unusual that the first expansion for The Sims 3 would revisit a concept the series has already trod. After all, in 2002, The Sims: Vacation let you visit three different travel venues and introduced a few new (but minor) concepts to the formula in the process.