Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
A Black Hawk helicopter went down Wednesday in northern Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said, the deadliest crash since January 2005.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, lashed out at American criticism a day after President Bush expressed frustration with the Iraqi government's inability to bridge political divisions.Read ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
A roadside bomb killed a governor in southern Iraq on Monday, the second provincial boss assassinated in nine days and a likely prelude to an even more brutal contest among rival Shiite militias battling for control of some of Iraq's main oil regions.Read the full story
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
‘Countdown’ is rocketing right now over at MSNBC — its ratings are going through the roof,” said Phil Griffin, senior vice president of NBC News. (In July Mr. Olbermann’s show averaged 721,000 viewers, an increase of 88 percent over last July, according to MSNBC.) Mr. Griffin added, “The world has ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Between 1997 and 2005, the percentage of people using five major painkillers rose 96 percent in Washington state, according to an Associated Press analysis of statistics from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Read the full story
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
More than one in five married women (22 per cent) said that if they could go back in time they would change their husband. Just 12 per cent of married men, however, admitted picking the wrong wife. Over 35s were asked to name their biggest regrets for the study.Read the ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
"Aviation is a luxury we can live without," said a protester named Merrick. Booming air travel, he said, is multiplying greenhouse gases just as the climate-change imperative starts to bite. "It has to be scaled right back," he said.Read the full story
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Buried in the article was a sobering remark indeed: “Many customers are running out of money at the end of the month,” said H. Lee Scott Jr., the chief executive of Wal-Mart.Read the full story
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
A study published this month in Annals of Plastic Surgery found that among women with cosmetic breast implants, there was a threefold increase in suicide and in deaths related to alcohol or substance abuse compared with the expected death rates of women who did not have implants.Read the full story
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The scope of the destruction became more evident as the frigid dawn broke, revealing thick stone and masonry walls in piles around the region. The quake knocked out telephone and mobile phone service between the capital and the disaster zone. Electricity also was cut, with power lines drooping dangerously into ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
One of the moderators of Saturday's presidential forum at the Yearly Kos 'netroots' convention in Chicago was a Seattle-based blogger who grew up in Idaho. She sat down with Crosscut for an interview shortly after being up onstage with seven Democratic presidential aspirants.Read the full story
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