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Iran's newly elected hardline President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said his government will continue the country's nuclear programme. He told his first news conference after his election that the nuclear programme was needed to meet Iran's energy needs. The United States has accused Iran of...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating dark chocolate may have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system in healthy people, the results of a new study suggest. "Epidemiological studies suggest that high flavonoid intake confers a benefit on cardiovascular outcome," Dr. Charalambos...

DESTIN, Fla. - A 14-year-old girl died Saturday after a shark attacked her while she and a companion were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle, authorities said. The teenagers were swimming on boogie boards about 100 yards offshore when they noticed a dark shadow in the...

With the media playing such an important role in Mideast events, here are some tools to ensure that you're more than a passive player in the process. Since the outbreak of violence in the Middle East on September 29, 2000, much concern has been raised about media bias. And as is becoming...

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CFB GAGETOWN (CP) - Tempers flared at a military base in New Brunswick on Thursday as former military personnel and civilians hurled accusations at federal officials who were trying to relay information about the testing of the defoliant Agent Orange in the 1960s. While federal officials...

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Some children have left school after their homes were demolished Zimbabwean police and city-dwellers have been urged to be careful when demolishing illegal structures after two children were crushed to death. These are the first reported deaths in a four-week crackdown, called Operation...

A wise man once said: "If you can take the emotion out of any situation, then and only then can you look at it logically". Powerful words that can be difficult to implement in one's own life. It's very hard to be honest with yourself at times. We are becoming an "Irrational People." That's to...

Charles Allen Glenn Some comparisons between the U.S. and Nazi Germany have been appearing for quite some time within the left-wing lunatic fringe, and even occasionally in the mainstream media, and it?s time to put the comparison to the test ? is Bush another Hitler? Is the U.S. the new Nazi...

Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs intends to cut world poverty in half. He outlines his plan in a cover story in this past week's Time magazine. Sachs isn't just an academic sitting in an ivory tower writing provocative papers. As director of the U.N. Millennium Project, he has tens of millions...

Thisis a bit old, but found it interesting since it was written by someone in BC. March 31, 2003 There have been two recent, widely-reported examples of anti-Americanism by Canadians of some official stature. According to Francie Ducros, then director of communications for Prime Minister Jean...

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Reagan’s conviction that the Soviet Union was both a dangerous military power and a collapsing economic system derived not from any deep knowledge of the Soviet Union. Yet he proved to be the proverbial right man in the right place at the right time. By whatever means he arrived at his views...

Is space exploration really desirable at a time when so much needs doing on Earth? It is an often-asked and serious question that requires a serious answer. One could present many arguments, from jobs and education to technology development and national security, for undertaking a robust space...

Relationships When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life. A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday...

One of the great certainty for everyone is death. Yet how many of us consider-let alone prepare for this major trauma? What happens when we die? Nothing? Complete bliss-"eternal life? Or a vague, substantial something? Materialists and atheists would answer nothing. For them life is a purely...

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Margaret Thatcher has urged the Conservatives to return to first principles and "get on with it" as they try to rebuild after the election. The former prime minister's appeal was read out on her behalf as she attended a dinner in London to mark 30 years since she was elected as Tory leader...

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