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Dem Convention Day 3: Is This the Day America Started Growing Up? (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- An awful lot of childish behavior has been on parade on the campaign trail this year. Well, yeah, pretty much every campaign season we see that, but this year has seemed even ...
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McCain's Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President? (Ronald Kessler)
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is considered a front-runner for the 2008 race, but does McCain have the temperament to be president?
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Arctic Ice At 2nd-Lowest Level On Record (CBS News)
Experts Say Last Year's Record Low Sea Ice Was Not An Anomaly
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Dem Convention -- Day 2: She Wore Gold and She Was Golden (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- All the blue and white “Unity” signs didn’t make nearly as vivid an impression as did the Lady in Gold on Night Number Two in Denver. Hillary Clinton Night at the Democratic ...
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New-Home Sales in U.S. Increase From 17-Year Low (Shobhana Chandra)
(Bloomberg) -- New-home sales in the U.S. improved in July from a 17-year low and construction cutbacks by builders reduced the glut of properties on the market by the most in almost five decades.
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Russia and Georgia: All About Oil (Michael Klare)
In commenting on the war in the Caucasus, most American analysts have tended to see it as a throwback to the past: as a continuation of centuries-old blood feud between Russians and Georgians, or, ...
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Tears and Bookends (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- What a great opening night! And what an historic journey the Democratic National Convention highlighted in its kickoff. It was a night of Great Democratic Bookends.
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The Abyss Stares Back (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- As the political conventions descend like the soggy forces of nature they have become -- the tropical depressions of politics -- the Republican party will be seen, with growing ...
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US Automakers Want $50 Billion in Federal Loans (CNBC)
Automakers plan to urge Congress to support funding up to $50 billion in low-interest loans over three years to help them modernize their assembly plants and develop next-generation fuel-efficient ...
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FBI Saw Threat of Mortgage Crisis (Richard B. Schmitt)
WASHINGTON -- Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed,prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled by ...
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A Noun, A Verb and a P.O.W. (Mary Lyon)
Joe Biden is already a pretty effective giant-killer, and he may just have killed another giant – a giant bummer among Democratic partisans concerned about the backbone of their party. Biden’s the ...
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