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Nurse Saves Boy, Boy Saves Nurse (CBS) A boy whose life was saved by an off-duty nurse had the opportunity to save his savior's life seven years later. The first incident happened in 1999, when Kevin Stephen went into cardiac arrest after being hit by a baseball bat at a game. Penny Brown...

(CBS) There’s an oil boom going on right now. Not in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or any of those places, but 600 miles north of Montana. In Alberta, Canada, in a town called Fort McMurray where, this time of year, the temperature sometimes zooms up to zero. The oilmen up there aren’t digging...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he doesn't want nuclear weapons. The world is suspicious. How dangerous is he? By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey Newsweek Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Born to a blacksmith, educated as a revolutionary, trained as a killer and derided by rivals as...

QALAT, Afghanistan - Police killed four people Wednesday as Afghans enraged over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad marched on a U.S. military base in a volatile southern province, directing their anger not against Europe but America. The U.S. base was targeted because the United States "is the...

Petitioners welcome decision to study Arctic habitat impacts ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a move hailed by environmentalists, the Bush administration announced it will review whether polar bears should be considered a threatened species given indicators that their icy habitats are melting away due to...

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins (Author) Forty years after Kenyan independence from Britain, the words "Mau Mau" still conjure images of crazed savages hacking up hapless white settlers with machetes. The British Colonial Office, struggling...

By John Newby January 26, 2006 I've heard and seen many reports concerning detention camps that have been built throughout the country. Quite frankly, I viewed them with a bit of skepticism, not that I didn't trust the source or the information, I didn't trust the conclusions. The claims have...

Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush By Paul Craig Roberts 01/29/06 "ICH" -- -- Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of...

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks typically replace home pages with pro-Islam messages and condemn the publication of the images. Hack attack monitoring group Zone-H said the...

HISTORY LESSONS How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History. By Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward. 404 pp. The New Press. $26.95. Daniel Swift HAD you gone to high school in Norway, your textbook would have taught you Columbus was old news: the most important arrival in America was...

By DINESH D'SOUZA Colonialism has gotten a bad name in recent decades. Anticolonialism was one of the dominant political currents of the 20th century, as dozens of European colonies in Asia and Africa became free. Today we are still living with the aftermath of colonialism. Apologists for...

By MARTIN SIEFF UPI Senior News Analyst WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Conventional Wisdom has so far paid almost no attention to the strategic consequences of Stephen Harper's victory with the Conservative Party in Canada on Monday. Conventional Wisdom as usual is wrong. Harper's victory is...

Wal-Mart to Open About 1,500 New Stores Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open more than 1,500 stores in the United States in the coming years, on top of nearly 3,200 it already operates, the world's largest retailer said Tuesday. John Menzer, the company's vice chairman and head of its domestic...

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Sat 4 Feb 2006 5:38 AM ET MUNICH, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel likened hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler on Saturday, saying the world must act now to stop him before his country developed a nuclear bomb. "We want, we must prevent Iran from developing...

Posted: February 7, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com While Muslims engaged in violent protests worldwide over caricatures of Muhammad have insisted any image of their prophet is considered blasphemous, a prominent frieze in the U.S. Supreme Court portrays the Islamic leader...

Billy Zane, Gary Busey star in Turkey's most-expensive film ever Thursday, February 2, 2006; Posted: 7:17 p.m. EST (00:17 GMT) ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his...

One of the more enduring myths in Western society is that wars are somehow good for the economy. Many people see a great deal of evidence to support this myth, after all World War II came directly after the Great Depression. This faulty belief stems from a misunderstanding of the economic way of...

New budget plan squeezes education, Medicare Bush’s $2.77 trillion proposal boosts defense spending, cuts other programs WASHINGTON - President Bush sent Congress a $2.77 trillion budget plan Monday that would make his first-term tax cuts permanent while reducing government-funded programs to...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has told a huge rally of supporters that he wants to buy more weapons to defend his country from invasion. Speaking in the capital Caracas, Mr Chavez said 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles already on order from Russia were not enough. Venezuela needed a...