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Israel Strikes Syria | Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes
May 5, 3013 -- BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Israeli jets bombed Syria Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital's skyline lit by flashes; Syrian opponents of President Bashar al-Assa...
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Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll
Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterman returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine, in May 2012. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File) April 26, 2013 (Christian Science Monitor) -- From North Carolina to Maine, the wa...
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Wealthiest Americans Only Winners in Recovery, Pew Says | Frank Bass
April 23, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of $500,000 or more, a new study shows. The recession continues for almost everyone else. Wealthy households boosted their net worth by 21.2 percent in the aftermath of the recession, according to the study released today by the Pew Research Center. The rest of America lost 4.9 percent of household wealth f...
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Bank of Cyprus Customers May Lose as Much as 60% on Deposits | Paul Tugwell, Tom Stoukas and Georgios Georgiou
March 30, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Cyprus may imposes losses of as much as 60 percent on Bank of Cyprus Plc accounts exceeding 100,000 euros ($128,000) as part of an aid deal to stop the country from going bankrupt. Customers will have 37.5 percent of their deposits above this amount converted into shares with full voting rights and access to any futureBank of Cyprus dividend, the Nicosia-based centra...
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The GMO That Could Have Killed Nearly All Life On Earth | Fritz Kreiss
March 26, 2013 (Nation Of Change) -- Meet Klebsiella Planticola, perfectly harmless and abundant in natural form, but after some tinkering by biotech scientists thinking their “invention” would save the world’s problems it very likely could have become the most deadly biological weapon known to man. These little guys belong to a family of enterobacteria, most of them live in places like our gut...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15-April 14 Quotidian Theater, performance of A Walk in the Woods, about informal meetings between an American and Russian nuclear arms control negotiators in Geneva. At Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Tickets available online. March 22-April 8 House and Senate spring recess. (Senate ...
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Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain
Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapid ice loss at a pace so fast that the area will soon be ice-free in warmer months, scientists confirmed in a report -- showing a collapse in total sea ice volume to one-fifth of its level in 1980. T...
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Cornel West Names Obama as 'War Criminal' | Jon Queally
Cornel West says, "Let us not be deceived: Nixon, Bush, Obama, they're war criminals." (Marc A. Hermann/for New York Daily News) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- Philosophy professor, social critic and activist Cornel West says that like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that President Obama -- due to his execution of foreign wars and directio...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation Jan. 22 Israeli general elections. Between Jan. 22 and 25 National Security Advisor Tom Donilon meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow. Between Jan. 22 and 25 Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces his resignation (estimate). Jan. 23 Noon-1:30 p.m., James Acton, Carnegie Endowment; E...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 2, 2013 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar | Friends Committee on National Legislation January 2, 2013 Jan. 3 Noon, House and Senate convene. House elects the Speaker of the House. Jan. 5-13 House of Representatives recess. Jan. 7 9:30 a.m.-noon, Robert Hale, Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), "Defense Spending and U.S. National Security Strategy." Brookings Institution, F...
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Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales
Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, the scientific study e-mailed by the World Bank shows today. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Nov. 19, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The globe risks “cataclysmic chang...
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