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Palin's Palmprompter: How Sarah sneakily consulted her notes during her $100,000 appearance at Tea Party rally to answer pre-screened questions
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Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77
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Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man
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Costa Rica: Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla leads vote, could be elected first female president
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'America is ready for another revolution,' Sarah Palin tells Tea Party activists, and says it is absurd for her not to ponder presidential bid
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2/7/2010 8:00 AM
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Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness
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2/5/2010 3:56 PM
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13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers
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1/30/2010 9:38 PM
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'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you
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1/27/2010 6:41 PM
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Rush, Robertson take heat for comments about earthquake in Haiti
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1/14/2010 10:21 PM
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New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics
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1/6/2010 2:35 AM
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Japan's prime minister "wants equal ties with US"
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1/4/2010 1:34 AM
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Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement
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1/2/2010 11:25 AM
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TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010
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1/1/2010 6:04 AM
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians
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1/1/2010 5:51 AM
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Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators
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12/29/2009 10:18 AM
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Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women
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12/28/2009 9:14 PM
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Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died
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12/26/2009 7:05 PM
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Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one
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12/23/2009 12:12 AM
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Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico
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12/23/2009 12:07 AM
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Against nudity ban, gallery in Ashland, Oregon takes it all off
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12/20/2009 4:55 AM
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Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight
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12/19/2009 3:28 PM
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Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi
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12/19/2009 4:06 AM
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Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end
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12/19/2009 3:56 AM
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Surreal photo: the White House enveloped in fog
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12/15/2009 7:54 AM
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Harassment across Arab world drives women inside
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12/15/2009 7:48 AM
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Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War
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12/15/2009 7:14 AM
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Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings
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12/13/2009 5:58 PM
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968 detained at climate rally urging bold pact
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12/12/2009 6:30 PM
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Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts
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12/12/2009 6:18 PM
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Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate
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12/11/2009 6:25 PM
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Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace
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12/10/2009 2:08 PM
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Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters
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12/8/2009 4:47 PM
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Supreme Court takes up 'honest services' (anti-corruption) law
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12/7/2009 4:50 PM
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Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans
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12/7/2009 4:45 PM
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Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans
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12/5/2009 6:22 PM
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Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears
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12/5/2009 6:20 PM
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Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on
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12/2/2009 11:12 AM
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Iran whistleblower, 26-year-old Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, died from drug-laced salad
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12/2/2009 11:05 AM
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Latin America's first gay marriage blocked by judge
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12/1/2009 3:38 PM
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South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
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12/1/2009 3:06 PM
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Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote
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11/29/2009 9:47 PM
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New climate targets may not change daily life much
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11/26/2009 7:33 PM
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Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools
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11/26/2009 6:29 PM
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TIME article -- "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?"
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11/25/2009 1:06 PM
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POLITICO: Lou Dobbs considering White House bid
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11/24/2009 12:36 PM
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AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)
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11/22/2009 7:12 PM
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Article from Eco expert Fred Pearce: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"
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11/21/2009 5:54 PM
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Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence
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11/21/2009 5:43 PM
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Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war
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11/18/2009 3:23 PM
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Palin angered by 'sexist' Newsweek cover
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11/17/2009 2:39 PM
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Photo: "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book"
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11/16/2009 4:03 PM
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USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases to 49 million
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11/16/2009 3:54 PM
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Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)
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11/15/2009 3:44 PM
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Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi
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11/15/2009 3:15 AM
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Cat's demise prompts rumors of Thatcher's death
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11/13/2009 7:00 PM
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New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")
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11/13/2009 6:52 PM
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Fact check: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts -- "Going Rogue" has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto"
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11/13/2009 6:19 PM
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Women face tough choices on abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law
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11/12/2009 2:56 PM
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Report: Chinese who complain to government risk being kidnapped
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11/12/2009 1:13 AM
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Student Mahmoud Vahidnia hailed a hero as he takes on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei -- but some ask "was it all a set up?"
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11/8/2009 2:13 PM
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To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"
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11/7/2009 2:06 PM
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International human rights group says Iran covered up rape of detainees
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11/6/2009 5:42 PM
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Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism
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11/5/2009 5:39 PM
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Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever'
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11/4/2009 1:25 PM
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Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)
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11/4/2009 12:34 PM
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Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt
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11/2/2009 11:21 AM
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"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war
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11/1/2009 8:50 PM
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Photos from Halloween night at the White House
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11/1/2009 11:06 AM
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Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars
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11/1/2009 10:44 AM
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New trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico
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10/29/2009 11:04 AM
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Ethel Smyth – a wrecker with a cause. "Jailed for her activities in the Suffragette movement, composer Ethel Smyth had no problem putting her beliefs into action"
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10/28/2009 11:16 AM
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Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence
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10/26/2009 8:39 AM
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How women are changing the face of Japanese politics
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10/25/2009 1:00 PM
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Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire
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10/25/2009 12:02 AM
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"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south
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10/23/2009 7:26 AM
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Australian town back-flips after cutting ties with its Japanese "sister-city" Taiji over its slaughter of dolphins
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10/23/2009 7:20 AM
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100,000 women sign petition saying they're offended by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's sexist behavior
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10/22/2009 1:14 PM
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Only 22 countries are paid-in-full members of U.N.
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10/21/2009 6:31 PM
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Kuwait grants women passports without spousal nod
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10/21/2009 4:28 AM
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Charles Wesley Mumbere, a former nurse's aide in the U.S., becomes Ugandan king
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10/20/2009 8:48 AM
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Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States
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10/20/2009 8:35 AM
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White House expects thousands on fall garden tours
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10/19/2009 3:05 AM
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Start planning for Pacific warming refugees: scientist
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10/19/2009 2:52 AM
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Artist Shepard Fairey admits using other photo for Barack Obama "Hope" poster
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10/17/2009 5:07 AM
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TIME article: Albania Asks India for Mother Teresa's Remains
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10/16/2009 11:12 AM
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U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza
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10/15/2009 9:09 AM
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Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir are melting
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10/13/2009 10:21 PM
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Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit
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10/13/2009 10:17 PM
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Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership
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10/11/2009 11:18 PM
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Poem: "The Man's Last Wish" by Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) -- Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist
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10/9/2009 11:40 PM
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Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"
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10/9/2009 12:04 AM
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Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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10/8/2009 11:55 PM
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Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"
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10/8/2009 3:34 AM
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Iran closes three newspapers
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10/6/2009 1:41 AM
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"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"
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10/5/2009 2:52 PM
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TIME article: "How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers"
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10/4/2009 9:05 PM
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One of my favorite articles ever: Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain -- for five decades, Elvira Profe kept Fortunat Mackiewicz's picture in her wallet
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10/3/2009 9:50 AM
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Oil photo exhibit opens in D.C. -- "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
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10/3/2009 9:41 AM
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Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis
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9/27/2009 1:37 AM
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Geography makes a difference in health coverage
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9/24/2009 11:06 AM
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