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F1 News: McLaren apologise unreservedly to the FIA
Seeded on Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:33 AM EST (autosport.com)
McLaren have offered to impose a moratorium on developing parts on their 2008 car that could have been inspired by Ferrari intellectual property, after apologising to the FIA over their failure to realise how much data from their rivals had spread within their team.
Environment: Carbon myths
Seeded on Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:48 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Chris Goodall of carboncommentary.com discussed the wide discrepancy between what people think will cut on greenhouse gas emissions and what would actually help.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Jobless Angolans resent Chinese
Seeded on Tue Dec 4, 2007 11:57 PM EST (BBC News)
In Angola, tens of thousands of Chinese workers have come to rebuild a country devastated by a long civil war. Fernando Macedo of the Association for Justice Peace and Democracy, a Luanda based human rights group, accepts that because of the war a whole generation of Angolans ar …
Monuments and instruments
Seeded on Sat Dec 1, 2007 7:55 PM EST (News at Nature)
"Vision — and quirkiness." Those were the qualities that the Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was meant to embody, according to an MIT statement at the time of its dedication in 2004. Now it also embodies a spirit of leakiness.
Playbill News: 26-Year-Old Yale Student Salim Killed During Tartuffe Load-In; Show Delayed
Seeded on Sat Dec 1, 2007 7:48 PM EST (playbill.com)
Yale Repertory Theatre has postponed the start of the upcoming run of Moliere's Tartuffe due to the Nov. 18 death of a student, Pierre-André Salim, who was fatally wounded during the load-in of the set.
Don Murray: In Belgium, even the Smurfs are confused
Seeded on Sat Dec 1, 2007 7:35 PM EST (CBC)
Belgium and Canada have similar positions. Each sits on its continent, incontournable as the French say, undeniably there, but largely ignored by its larger neighbours.
Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding knives demand jailed teddy bear teacher is executed
Seeded on Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:07 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Tiny minority of extremists update: Thousands of protesters wielding clubs and knives have gathered outside the Sudanese presidential palace calling for execution by firing squad of the British teacher who let her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Special Reports: Funding chief knew of proxy donors
Seeded on Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:11 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Labour's embattled chief fundraiser has admitted that he knew that property developer David Abrahams was donating to the party through other people but said that he had written to Abrahams to set up a meeting to ask him to stop.
Here comes the Consumer of Bridal Products
Seeded on Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:56 PM EST (episcopalcafe.com)
Although we had a strict policy and required pre-marital counseling, those who were looking for a destination wedding would question every guideline. One secretary spent much of her time managing the 2-4 weddings per weekend held from Memorial Day until the end of September.
ILO body censures Venezuela, seeks probe of abuses
Seeded on Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:15 AM EST (Reuters)
GENEVA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The International Labour Organisation has asked Venezuela to investigate suspected kidnappings and harassment of private sector employers, as well as property confiscations, officials said on Thursday.
Saudis punish gang rape victim with 200 lashes and 6 months in jail
Seeded on Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:30 PM EST (Breitbart)
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Iranian publisher's ruse fails to protect raunchy García Márquez title from censors
Seeded on Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:12 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Iran's straight-laced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called A Memory of My Melancholy Whores was never likely to meet with their approval.
Japan might kill world's only white whale
Seeded on Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:59 AM EST (Telegraph)
Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.
America's Railroads - A National Disgrace
Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:02 PM EST
This morning on NBC's Today Show, the crew presented a a story of a family touched by tragedy. The young California couple discussed the loss of their three children in a freeway accident. The oldest of the three, two girls and one boy, was five.
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Open Letter to MSNBC and Newsvine: Social-News Conference
Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:50 AM EST
With Newsvine content now appearing on MSNBC's community page, it's time to think about the big picture. One of the big stumbling blocks for any online community is the "digital wall" which often prevents intelligent, thoughtful contributors from seeing eye to eye.
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Breakthrough in primate cloning
Seeded on Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:08 AM EST (BBC News)
Experts have for the first time created cloned embryos from an adult monkey - a technical breakthrough that could bring efficient human cloning a step closer. A team in the US created dozens of cloned embryos from a 10-year-old male macaque, the journal Nature reports.
Europe: Does French 'people power' rule OK?
Seeded on Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:27 PM EST (BBC News)
The French trade unions staging a series of strikes and protests against a pension-reform plan are following a well-established procedure. The government calls for urgent change and draws up a proposal; those affected paralyse much of the country; the plan is shelved.
Special reports: Venezuela scrambles for food despite oil boom
Seeded on Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:20 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
At first glance the supermarket off Avenida Francisco Miranda appeared to be a gourmet dream. Smoked salmon in the freezer. An aisle filled with Italian olive oil, balsamic vinegar and pesto. Another aisle stacked with Perrier, champagne and the finest Scotch.
Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
Seeded on Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:10 PM EST (The New York Times)
A low-cost computer intended to aid children in poor countries will soon be on sale here, for two weeks only.
Poor South Africans double in decade
Seeded on Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:51 PM EST (BBC News)
"Poverty has increased both in absolute numbers and proportionally," SAIRR said in a statement, blaming the rise on unemployment and HIV/Aids. Despite good economic growth in recent years, unemployment has remained consistently high at about 26%.
Watch Spanish King asking Hugo Chavez to shut up
Seeded on Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:09 PM EST (euroresidentes.com)
During the closing session of the 12th Summit of Iberoamerican Leaders and Heads of State held in Chile King Juan Carlos caused a diplomatic incident when he lent over and said to Hugo Chavez "Por qué no te callas" (Why don't you shut up?) when the Venezuelan president kept tryi …
BBC SPORT | South Africa remove racial quotas
Seeded on Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:49 PM EST (BBC News)
South Africa will no longer have quotas for non-white players in sports teams. The policy has caused controversy in rugby and cricket, and was cited by England batsman Kevin Pietersen as the main reason he left the country.
The Fall of Zionism
Seeded on Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:50 PM EST (culturemagazine.ca)
Of course, this is not the case. Many Jews, like their non-Jewish counterparts, have publicly spoken out against the criminal acts committed by Israel.
Self righteous in the extreme
Seeded on Thu Nov 8, 2007 11:53 AM EST (episcopalcafe.com)
New research suggests that those who say the believe they are moral are likely to take extreme actions. The Washington Post reports:
Gunfire Erupts at Venezuela University
Wed Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM EST
Masked gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march in which tens of thousands of Venezuelans denounced President Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power through constitutional changes.
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F1 News: McLaren apologise unreservedly to the FIAMcLaren have offered to impose a moratorium on developing parts on their 2008 car that could have been inspired by Ferrari intellectual property, after apologising to the FIA over their failure to realise how much data from their rivals had spread within their team.
- Playbill News: 26-Year-Old Yale Student Salim Killed During Tartuffe Load-In; Show Delayed
Yale Repertory Theatre has postponed the start of the upcoming run of Moliere's Tartuffe due to the Nov. 18 death of a student, Pierre-André Salim, who was fatally wounded during the load-in of the set.
- Don Murray: In Belgium, even the Smurfs are confused
Belgium and Canada have similar positions. Each sits on its continent, incontournable as the French say, undeniably there, but largely ignored by its larger neighbours.
Death Toll for Iraqis Falls Again
The number of Iraqis killed last month fell to 718, an Associated Press tally showed, the lowest monthly death toll since just before the 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine provoked a vicious cycle of retaliatory sectarian violence.
- Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding knives demand jailed teddy bear teacher is executed
Tiny minority of extremists update: Thousands of protesters wielding clubs and knives have gathered outside the Sudanese presidential palace calling for execution by firing squad of the British teacher who let her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
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F1 News: McLaren apologise unreservedly to the FIA
Death Toll for Iraqis Falls Again
Playbill News: 26-Year-Old Yale Student Salim Killed During Tartuffe Load-In; Show Delayed
Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding knives demand jailed teddy bear teacher is executed
Don Murray: In Belgium, even the Smurfs are confused
Thousands of Islamic fanatics wielding knives demand jailed teddy bear teacher is executed
Special Reports: Funding chief knew of proxy donors
ILO body censures Venezuela, seeks probe of abuses
Here comes the Consumer of Bridal Products
ILO body censures Venezuela, seeks probe of abuses