No longer here, but grateful
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Bob Hayes died before he made the Hall of Fame, but that didn’t stop him from saying thanks.
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Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.
Bob Hayes died before he made the Hall of Fame, but that didn’t stop him from saying thanks.
Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back
Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.
Reuters - The death toll from an oil spill blaze in central Kenya has risen to 111, making it one of the east African nation’s worst disasters of recent times, police said on Sunday.
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KIEV, Ukraine — The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind’s eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.
Less known is the “Holocaust by Bullets,” in which over 2 million Jews were gunned down in towns and villages across Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Their part in the Nazis’ Final Solution has been under-researched, their bodies left unidentified in unmarked mass graves.
Read more: Soviet Jews Died, Final Solution, Holocaust Beginning, Holocaust, Holocaust by Bullets, Final Solution Beginnings, World News
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The president’s disgust at Wall Street looters was good. But we need more. We need disgorgement. Disgorgement is when courts force wrongdoers to repay ill-gotten gains.
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Reuters - The United Steelworkers Union said on Saturday it would extend by 24 hours talks for a new labor contract for U.S. refinery workers, delaying a possible strike that could affect over half of U.S. refining capacity.
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The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married …
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AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the second installment of the financial rescue plan.
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AFP - The world is entering an era of big government with only state muscle powerful enough to fight the economic crisis, top leaders signalled at the Davos summit.
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In a bizarre turn of events that seem straight out of an old Twilight Zone episode, police in Khajekalam, India, mistakenly declared a man dead who was found in a semi-conscious state, and sent him off for an autopsy while he was still alive! Abdul Raza, a road roller driver for the state Public Works Department, [...]
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Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.
Reuters - The United Steelworkers Union said on Saturday it would extend by 24 hours talks for a new labor contract for U.S. refinery workers, delaying a possible strike that could affect over half of U.S. refining capacity.
Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back