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Raúl castro gives signals that cuba will change
: In his first populace act as president, Raúl Fidel Castro met Tues not with collectivist Latin American leaders like President Hugo Chávez of Republic of Venezuela, nor with Chinese officials, but with the Vatican Palace's secretary of st Feb 27 2008
Racial divide festers even as obama rises
The flier, just a few typed lines, was taped to a lamppost on the usually untroubled street where I live in Brooklyn, and it announced bad news. The author, who did not give his or her name, was lease everybody know that the previous night he was fol Nov 6 2008
Radio's 'lois lane,' now 90, accuses money adviser of losing and stealing millions
An actress who was the 1940s radio voice of Lois Lane, the newsman with an undying crush on demigod, has filed a suit that accuses her financial adviser of losing and larceny tens of 1000000 of dollars of her money. Joan A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 90, cla Apr 17 2008
Rainier hiker sacrificed himself to save his wife
A hiker who lost his life on Mount Rainier lay down in the snow and used his body's heat to protect his wife and a friend from the 70-mph winds of a freak June snowstorm, national park functionary said. When it became obvious the trio could not Jun 14 2008
Ranking the greatest artworks of the twentieth century
Ask David Galenson to name the single greatest work of art from the 20th century, and he unhesitatingly answers "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," a 1907 picture by Pablo Picasso. He can then tell you with certainty Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on, as Aug 5 2008
Rapid cost of living increases in africa and asia
metropolis in Africa and Asia have become more expensive for exile relative to metropolis in the US, says a cost of life comparison of 228 global cities.The global cost of life comparison conducted by Xpatulator.com shows Greater London is the most expens Mar 23 2008
Rapid rise of dollar may endanger u.s. and world economies
The dollar is enjoying its strongest rally in three years mostly because of bad news exterior the United States instead than good news at home. Just as the dollar's swift diminution earlier this year set off alarm bells with world policy makers Aug 25 2008
Rapper in france is acquitted of libeling the police
On March 5, 2003, the door bell rang at the home of the French rapper Mohamed Bourokba, known as Hamé, and a bailiff informed him that the authorities was suing him for libel. The signature under the written complaint was familiar: Nicolas Sarkozy, t Sep 24 2008
Raves (yes, it's true) for new hearing aid
Few merchandise are hated as much as hearing aids. The devices can squeal with feedback and overamplify background noises like the click of a turn signaling or whir of a ceiling fan. They must be removed for showering or sleeping, and their batteries die Apr 17 2008
Real estate markets across china join general slump
The United States, United Kingdom, Spain and other state suffering from real estate market downturns now have fresh company: China. start here in southeastern China and now spread north and west across the state, the figure of homes changing hands ha Sep 11 2008
Real life is stepping aside for tourists in vietnam
It was impossible, being a individual of my coevals, to sail into Danang harbor onboard a luxury cruise liner the other day without thinking of an before foreign boarding on these same shores, which happened to take place 33 years ago this month. On March Mar 27 2008
Realists unite
Now is the minute to forge a new, broader, politically potent coalition of realists to shape U.S. Foreign policy, if the high priests of the realist camp would only grasp it. The two main option to traditional realism for half a century have now disc Sep 2 2008
Rebuffed by china, pakistan may seek imf aid
President Asif Ali Zardari returned from China late Fri without a committedness for cash needed to shore up Islamic Republic of Pakistan's crumbling economy, departure him with the politically unpopular prospect of having to ask the International Mon Oct 19 2008
Recalling la dolce vita in eritrea
WE were covered in soot, posing on rock-hard benches, hot, sweaty and crawl along at maybe five miles an hour. But we were loving every min of it, chugging straight up a versant, puff by puff, in a 1938 steam train built by the Italians when State o Oct 6 2008
Recognition for a people who faded as japan grew
The Ainu had lived on Japan's northernmost island for centuries, calling their home Ainu Mosir, or Land of Human Beings. Here, they had fished, hunted, worshiped nature and established a civilization that yielded "Yukar," an oral poem of Homeric Jul 4 2008
Reebok's grand prix track & field results
1, Usain Bolt, Jamaica, 9.72 seconds; new world record (previous record; 9.74 Asafa Colin Powell, Jamaica, 2007). 2, Tyson Gay, United States, 9.85. 3, Darvis Patton, United States, 10.07. 4, Mike Richard Rodgers, United States, 10.11. 5, Daniel Pearl Bai Jun 1 2008
Regulators meet on fortis as reports say it may be sold
By Antonia Van De Velde and Marcin Grajewski Benelux financial group Fortis underwent a scattergun nationalisation on Lord's Day after exigency talks with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to prevent U.S.-style financial contagious Sep 29 2008
Regulators struggle to keep aig afloat
U.S. Regulators struggled Tues to prevent the collapse of one of the world's largest insurance companies, American International Group, as investors' fears of yet another failure of a Wall Street behemoth prompted another dramatic sell off in it Sep 17 2008
Rejecting dissent, china exposes its candor gap
Over the past couple of weeks, two of the world's biggest news narrative were the eruption of protestation and riots in Tibetan areas of China and the repression that followed them, and the tumult over remark by the curate of the American presidentia Mar 28 2008
Relaxed admission brings chaos to the british library
In its old, mustily glorious one-fourth in the British people Museum, the British people Library's main reading room was as scoop as it was glamorous, a club rich with tradition whose distinguished alumni included Karl Marx, Old Dominion Woolf, W.B. Apr 29 2008 |