bloglog » Wednesday 20 February 2008
20 February 2008
tight curfew on military in okinawa
20-02-08
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TOKYO ? The U.S. military imposed tight restrictions on all personnel in Okinawa on Wednesday, limiting troops to bases, jobs or...
steamy web photos too hot for china
20-02-08
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China's top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, has been censured by a government-sponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually...
south korean army-helicopter crash kills 7
20-02-08
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A South Korean army helicopter crashed into a mountain near Seoul early today, killing all seven people on board, an army officer said. The UH-1H went down in...
siege mentality at baghdad hospital
20-02-08
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Inside the low-slung, brown stucco building that is the al-Rashad psychiatric teaching hospital in a Baghdad neighborhood of the same name...
rwanda genocide should have been a lesson, bush says
20-02-08
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President Bush, expressing frustration that the United Nations has had a difficult time raising and deploying a sufficient peacekeeping...
researchers on the hunt for answers about god
20-02-08
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University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God...
martha pays $50 million to add emeril to empire
20-02-08
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is kicking it up a notch by bringing in a new celebrity: popular TV chef Emeril Lagasse...
judge holds reporter in contempt in anthrax probe
20-02-08
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A federal judge found a former USA Today reporter in contempt of court Tuesday for refusing to name the confidential sources who had discussed...
florida now requires evolution instruction
20-02-08
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State education board softens scientists' recommendation, not fully satisfying those on either side of an issue that has drawn heat.
12-year sentence for contractor who bribed lawmaker
20-02-08
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A defense contractor was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday for bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, trips...
total lunar eclipse tonight will allow saturn to shine
20-02-08
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The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs tonight, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the...
spy satellite could be hit tonight
20-02-08
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An attempt to shoot an errant U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile ? possibly tonight ? would...
serbs give fiery rebuff to kosovo secession
20-02-08
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Well-organized Serb gangs torched buildings Tuesday along the border between Serbia and Kosovo, in a defiant rejection of the breakaway...
pakistan lawyer opposed to musharraf is freed
20-02-08
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The crackdown on Aitzaz Ahsan turned him into a national hero, a prisoner of conscience whose confinement, in the eyes of many, symbolized the arrogance of Musharraf's rule.
order to close web site may mean little
20-02-08
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In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco...
lights at night tied to breast cancer
20-02-08
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Women who live in neighborhoods with large amounts of nighttime illumination are more likely to get breast cancer than those who live in...
high court won't hear wiretapping suit
20-02-08
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The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to civil-rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush administration's warrantless-wiretapping...
beef recall spurs talk of change in usda's duties
20-02-08
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A lawmaker called Tuesday for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be stripped of its responsibility for food safety after the nation's... 




