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Unserved by banks, Poor Kenyans Now Just Use A Cellphone
Seeded on Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:32 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Nairobi, Kenya - With a click of a cellphone key, Bernard Otieno makes the transfer – sending funds instantly from his residence in a sprawling Nairobi slum to his wife, who holds down their rural family farm some 250 miles away.
Judge Orders Office To Close On Time - Texas Man Executed
Seeded on Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:27 PM EDT (The New York Times)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- High-profile lawyers are accusing a state judge of violating the rights of a condemned inmate by cutting off appeals once office hours ended, leading to his execution.
Rare Butterfly Sighting Causes Stir in Texas
Seeded on Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:20 PM EDT (The New York Times)
FALCON HEIGHTS, Texas (AP) --A tiny green butterfly not seen in the United States in more than 70 years likes the new butterfly garden at Falcon State Park, experts said.
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is 'a Nightmare'
Seeded on Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:01 PM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration's handling of the war "incompetent" and said the result was "a nightmare with no end in sight."
Spain Rapidly Building Solar-Energy Power Plants
Seeded on Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:25 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)
MADRID — Photovoltaic solar power plants are springing up throughout Spain, capitalizing on special tariffs for renewable energies and exceeding the government's expectations.
9 children killed in U.S. raid in Iraq
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:44 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
BAGHDAD - A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday — one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months. The military said it was targeting senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.
President Carter Says US Tortures Prisoners
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:41 AM EDT (Raw Story)
Former president Jimmy Carter isn't just suspicious that the US is using torture to extract intelligence from detainees -- he's absolutely convinced.
Natural Insect Repellents You May Have Around The House
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:32 AM EDT (stretcher.com)
Natural insect repellents that you may already have in your kitchen or bathroom. Save money while avoiding those pesky bugs.
Stretching the Search for Signs of Life
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:57 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Call it a small step for E.T., a leap for radio astronomy.
Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From Iraq
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:48 AM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials.
Iraq Says Security Firm Kills 2 Women
Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 12:44 PM EDT (The New York Times)
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two Christian women, police said. Separately, suicide car bombings targeting a local police chief and a Sunni sheik working with U.S.
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 11:19 PM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
War-Crimes Prosecutor Quits in Pentagon Clash
Seeded on Sat Oct 6, 2007 1:01 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In the latest disruption of the Bush administration's plan to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for war crimes, the chief military prosecutor on the project stepped down yesterday after a dispute with a Pentagon official.
In Life of Lies, Iraqis Conceal Work for U.S.
Seeded on Sat Oct 6, 2007 12:41 PM EDT (The New York Times)
BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 — For Hamed, a forklift driver at an American military base, life has become a series of disguises.
Out of Prison and Deep in Debt - Justice System Encourages Return to Crime
Seeded on Sat Oct 6, 2007 12:32 PM EDT (The New York Times)
With the nation's incarcerated population at 2.1 million and growing — and corrections costs topping $60 billion a year — states are rightly looking for ways to keep people from coming back to prison once they get out.
Study: Flu Shot Cuts Death Risk
Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 10:56 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
PORTLAND, Ore. - Flu season is almost here, and a new study finds that skipping that annual flu shot could have serious consequences for older people.
Angry Voices: Torture, Iraq, The Veto - It's Only Torture If You Call It Torture
Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 10:36 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations" (front page, Oct. 4) and "Bush Vetoes Health Bill Privately, Without Fanfare" (news article, Oct.
Adding an Extra Room for the Sky
Seeded on Fri Oct 5, 2007 1:45 PM EDT (The New York Times)
IN the quaint seaside community of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, one gray clapboard house stands out from the rest. It has a big white dome rising from the top, with a sliding shutter that opens to the sky and a powerful telescope inside.
Japan's SELENE Probe Reaches Lunar Orbit
Seeded on Thu Oct 4, 2007 10:55 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
TOKYO - Japan has placed a satellite in orbit around the moon for the first time, officials said Friday, in a major space breakthrough for the Asian nation. ADVERTISEMENT Click Here
Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
Seeded on Thu Oct 4, 2007 10:35 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In November, you'll be able to buy a new laptop that's spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It's fanless, it's silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading.
The Raw Story | Ex-NATO commander wants Rush off Armed Forces Radio
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 6:17 PM EDT (Raw Story)
Retired General Wesley Clark, a former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, appeared on NBC's Today Show to discuss his campaign to convince Congress to remove conservative talker Rush Limbaugh's program from the Armed Forces Radio Network.
3,000 Workers Trapped in S. Africa Mine
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 5:52 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A water pipe burst and soil in an underground shaft probably collapsed Wednesday morning, trapping about 3,000 workers in a gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa's economic capital and gold-mining center, the workers' union said.
Scientists Are Making Brazil's Savannah Bloom
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 4:44 PM EDT (The New York Times)
PLANALTINA, Brazil — Anyone curious to know how Brazil has become what the former secretary of state, Colin L.
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill - Some Congressional Republicans Dismayed
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 4:34 PM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — President Bush vetoed the children's health insurance bill today, as he had promised to do, setting the stage for more negotiations between the White House and Congress and sparking unusual dismay from some prominent Republicans.
Self Driving Trucks Tested - Do Better Than Humans Obeying Traffic Laws
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 2:26 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
OSHKOSH, Wis. - Sitting high in the cab of the hulking lime-green TerraMax truck, a driver can be excused for instinctively grabbing the steering wheel. There's no need.
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