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A path to success
April 22, 2007
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Health care in developed countries in the past ate up a smaller percentage of the gross national product — which is our national net income — than it does today. Currently, in all developed countries this per...
DATE: Apr 25, 2007
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This is the full text of an editorial on the Rebecca Middleton case that appeared in Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, yesterday.
Rebecca Middleton had just celebrated her 17th birthday when she was kidnapped, brutally raped, tortured,...
DATE: Apr 25, 2007
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Monday’s front page confirmed news that has already been out for some time — the 2006 tourism year saw a strong upsurge in visitor arrivals, the first sign of real improvement since before 1998.
That’s good news, and no one doubts that a strong and v...
DATE: Apr 25, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007. There are 250 days left in the year.
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In 1507, America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map to refer to th...
DATE: Apr 25, 2007
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Triple jeopardy
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I believe it’ll be Triple Jeopardy if that trial goes ahead. What charges will be brought up now against Mundy? He already pleaded guilty (back then) to sexual assault so,what now? As for Smith,the prosecutors back then said...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2007. There are 251 days left in the year.
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“The door to the past is a strange door. It swings open and things pass through it, but they pass in one direction ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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MOSCOW (Reuters) — Powerful figures with the ear of Russian president Vladimir Putin and a lot to lose when he goes are mounting a campaign to get him to reverse his decision to bow out next year.Analysts say that campaign is led by a loose alliance ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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Why just gays?
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So United By Faith have not only managed to thwart Rosie O’Donnell’s cruise ship to Bermuda, they proclaimed it was “victory for God”. I can only assume that this entails good prevailing over evil? And that God granted their ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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BOSTON — May I remind you what else was happening on the very day in 2003 when Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. In Florida, the legislature passed a law that gave politicians the power to override Terri Schiavo’s wishes and have her fe...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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:Just about everyone lost in the Rosie O'Donnell cruise controversy by the time it finally ended last week.
It was entirely predictable that the cruise would draw opposition from churches and other anti-homosexual groups from the minute it was announ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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