Myanmar junta official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
AP - Wed Dec 9, 8:22 am ETDetained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home Wednesday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said.
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Bull in a China Shop: The False Pretense of Iraqi Democracy
The Mass Media - Tue Dec 8, 6:44 pm ETThe war in Iraq was not about spreading democracy, as it was about bringing down a dictatorship build on war crimes and fear. President George W. Bush said on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln Navy flight deck that the images of the falling statues represented a new era of peace and liberty would make Iraq safer and help fight the war on Iraq, It was security that was important.
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A passion for green living and the environment
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Tue Dec 8, 6:31 pm ETFormer Peace Corps volunteer Paul Thompson is still out to change the world.
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Expert: Pythons could live on Gasparilla Island
Gasparilla Gazette - Tue Dec 8, 5:12 pm ETBoca Grande is not necessarily protected by its relative isolation from the python invasion in Southwest Florida. Burmese pythons are a nonnative species to Florida but have spread throughout the Everglades region with populations estimated in the thousands.
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Jared Genser '95 fights for freedom of political prisoners
Cornell News Service - Tue Dec 8, 3:47 pm ETJared Genser '95 was standing in the back of the VIP room in London's Heathrow airport when James Mawdsley -- a British citizen who had spent more than a year imprisoned in Burma for distributing pro-democracy leaflets -- was reunited with his family in 2000.
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GLOBAL: Climate change costs a lot
IRIN - Tue Dec 8, 12:45 pm ETCOPENHAGEN, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - In the past 18 years 11,000 extreme events have claimed the lives of 600,000 people and cost US$1.7 trillion across the globe, said the Climate Risk Index 2010, released in Copenhagen at the UN climate change conference.
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Arizona Pain Specialists' Charitable Foundation to Host Christmas Party for Refugee Children
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 11:54 am ETPHOENIX----Arizona Pain Specialists, a local pain management clinic, will be hosting a Christmas party for refugee children at the Arizona Medical Clinic in Phoenix on Sunday, December 13, 2009, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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SOE Launches Mass Animation Contest on Facebook
IGN PS3 - Tue Dec 8, 11:52 am ETDC Universe Online (PS3) Design an animation for the game, fame to follow shortly.
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Bangladesh, Myanmar 'worst-hit' by extreme weather
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:36 am ETBangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras were the countries most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, according to a climate change risk study published on Tuesday.
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U.S. envoy in Sri Lanka, Washington mulls change in ties
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:34 am ETThe U.S. diplomat responsible for south Asia landed in Sri Lanka on Tuesday after a U.S. Senate committee urged the United States not to "lose" its relationship with the strategically located island nation.
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Myanmar destroys $93 million in illicit drugs
Boston Herald - Tue Dec 8, 10:33 am ETKENG TUNG, Myanmar - Authorities in eastern Myanmar on Tuesday destroyed more than $93 million worth of methamphetamine tablets and other illicit drugs seized over the last...
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Tricky test awaits Obama at Nobel ceremony
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 10:25 am ETPresident Barack Obama faces a test of tone and political dexterity Thursday, when he accepts the Nobel peace prize days after escalating a war and with a resume lacking defining foreign policy wins.
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Armenian Holiday Food Fair at St. Hagop's Dec. 12
The Journal Times - Tue Dec 8, 10:12 am ETCALEDONIA — St. Hagop Armenian Church, 4100 Newman Road, willhold a Holiday Food Fair from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12.There is no admission fee.
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Sissoko out with pulled muscle for showdown with Bayern Munich
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 9:16 am ETRome - Mohamed Sissoko was to be sidelined later Tuesday when Juventus play a crucial Champions League match with visiting Bayern Munich, the Turin club's website reported. The Mali midfielder, 24, pulled a muscle in his left leg during a training se...
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Emission pledges 'not good enough', UN climate chief warns
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 9:01 am ETCopenhagen - Pledged greenhouse gas emission cuts from the industrial world are not good enough, the United Nations' climate chief warned Tuesday - as officials from 192 countries entered their second day of negotiations aimed at slowing global war...
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Odd news -- December 8, 2009
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Myanmar junta official meets Suu Kyi
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