News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Earth's Eighth Continent (David Reid)
North Pacific Gyre traps flotsam. It swirls. It grows. It's a massive, floating 'garbage patch.' By David Reid -- The Phoenix Nov. 21, 2007 -- Located in the Pacific Ocean between California and ...
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Recession Signs Grow as Winnebago Leads U.S. RV Drop (Jeff Green)
By Jeff Green Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Winnebago Industries Inc., Thor Industries Inc. and other U.S. recreational-vehicle makers will probably say shipments fell in 2007 for the first time in six ...
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Embrace Black Swans to Avoid Financial Disaster, Urges Taleb (Mark Gilbert)
``We have never before lived under the threat of a global collapse. The financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks -- when one falls, they all fall.''
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What Bush doesn't want you to know about Iran's Nukes (Calum Coburn)
The following article appears on the website of an Australian company that specializes in the training of skilled negotiators. It approaches the subject of Iran's rumored nuclear capabilities and ...
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U.S. Foreclosures Double as Refinancing Gets Tougher (Bob Ivry)
``A lot of folks have been borrowing and borrowing and borrowing to stay out of trouble.''
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New U.S. report repeats warning on warmer climate (Andrew C. Revkin and Timothy Williams)
The effects of global warming, the study said, could lead to large-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water. All could lead to direct ...
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Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? (Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross)
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
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The United States Constitution (James Madison)
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the ...
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Gold Rises on Demand for Dollar Alternative; Silver Climbs (Pham-Duy Nguyen)
The price of gold rises to the highest in almost a year. Silver is up, too.
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Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand (Angus Kidman)
Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems.
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Council On Spiritual Practices
The Council on Spiritual Practices is a collaboration among spiritual guides, experts in the behavioral and biomedical sciences, and scholars of religion, dedicated to making direct experience of ...
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