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Millions Protest Worldwide on Anniversary of Iraq War (washingtonpost.com)

Demonstrators condemned U.S. policy in Iraq and said they did not believe Iraqis are better off or the world safer because of the war.
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US Wood Importers Pillage Virgin Indonesian Rainforests

Rainforest Action Network sent letters to 163 U.S. tropical wood importers and members of the International Wood Products Association calling for an immediate corporate embargo on forest-based products from Indonesia?s ravaged rainforests.
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William Blake As Mystic

It was also at this time that he often saw fairies and once experienced what he understood to be a fairy’s funeral.
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The Mad Man's Homemade Generator

When I'm done, I will hopefully have all the plans and specifications you need to help you remove yourself from the “grid.” Or at least help you get by when the power goes out. . . and it won't cost you an arm and a leg to get it going either!
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Pentagon Bankrolls Swedish Stem Cell Study

The Pentagon (news - web sites) has granted $240,000 to a Swedish team for embryonic stem-cell research linked to Parkinson's disease (news - web sites), the researchers said on Wednesday, despite U.S. government limits on stem-cell research.
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Think Before You Rush To Judge People - No Peeking

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf,
two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend
that she have an abortion?
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New massive subatomic particle created

The particle, comprised of five quarks, is only the second type of "pentaquark" seen since the first was reported in summer 2003. And already its properties are puzzling theorists.

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Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat

Dogging combines technology with swinging, cruising and voyeurism. To wit: Crowds big and small watch exhibitionist couples who've met on the Net have sex in cars, and sometimes join in.

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Red Alert at the White House

How much fun can one administration have? More dead GIs. New record trade deficit. Stock market plunge. Defeated ally in Spain. New Spanish prime minister says the occupation in Iraq is a "continuing disaster" and he's pulling his troops out. Still no jobs. And then they guy who was supposed to be the new jobs czar turns out to have laid off 75 of his own workers while building a $3 million factory in China to employ 165 Chinese people.
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One Year Later

antiwar events scheduled across the globe leading up to Saturday's one-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In the United States
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Mars rovers ready to cruise

With their primary goal of finding signs of water on Mars achieved, NASA's twin robot-geologists soon will make tracks across the red planet's barren surface until their batteries run out, according to NASA officials.

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Sea temperatures linked to 1930s US drought.

The devastating US drought of the 1930s was caused by unusual sea surface temperatures, according to new climate research.
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Recently Discovered Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach to Earth

A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded.
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Did cracking continent trigger a deep freeze?

The Earth might have been sent into an ice age by the break-up of a supercontinent 750 million years ago, creating a global snowball.

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Has A Time Vortex Been Found?

Putting this tool in the hands of an angelic-Christian driven team of government agents can only mean worse trouble than we have already have. Come to think of it, that kind of time tinkering might explain how things have become as quickly out-of-whack as they currently are.

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ESA - Mars Express - Water at Martian south pole

Thanks to ESA’s Mars Express, we now know that Mars has vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from the south pole of the Red Planet.
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Markets resurrect coal mine

A controversial $50-million coal project on the eastern boundary of Jasper National Park that environmentalists hoped was dead has been revived, with mining scheduled to start later this year.
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The Movement's Momentum

On March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, opponents of the war and the ongoing occupation will stage protests and memorials in countries across the globe. The actions will recall the massive demonstrations that took place before the war. However, they will be far smaller than the protests of early 2003.

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US to withhold Halliburton bills

A Pentagon spokeswoman said the 15% - some $300m (£165m) - will not be paid until auditors have established the actual final cost of the food.
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Military 'Special Skills Draft' on Drawing Board

Washington -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
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US to test many more cattle for BSE

The US is to follow the advice of foreign scientists and test up to half a million cattle for BSE, in order to determine the prevalence of the deadly disease in the national herd.

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The Enterprise Mission

Richard C. Hoagland respond to the false
allegations made in the Space. COM
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Scientist Attacks Alien Claims

Astronomer Philip Plait is tired of radio personality Richard Hoagland's claims. He's had enough of Hoagland's assertions that NASA is covering up evidence of extraterrestrial life
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U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny

Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, which would be offered to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines.
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NASA Discovers New Planet

The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.
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Wage-Peace.org

one year later, the anti-war movement is back to say “The World STILL Says No to War”! March 20 has been endorsed in countries all over the world as the next global day of protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the Iraq War.
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Spain may withdraw Iraq troops

Mr Zapatero said President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair needed to "engage in some self-criticism" over their decision to invade Iraq.

He made clear that he would withdraw Spanish troops in Iraq if the United Nations did not take charge of running the country.

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Private Detectives Investigate Mars

The unmatched imagery being relayed from the two NASA Mars rovers -- Spirit and Opportunity have made it possible for amateur investigators to explore the red planet as never before.
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Bush Site Unplugs Poster Tool

The Bush-Cheney presidential campaign disabled features of a tool on its website Thursday that pranksters were using to mock the Republican presidential ticket.
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The Empire Backfires

Is the war in Iraq a diversion, like a magician's trick to take the people's eyes of other, more serious global problems? For example, there are many major issues that remain witout solutions: Pakistan's rampant nuclear weapons proliferation, the millions of jobless workers in the U.S., bin Laden still on the loose, and the U.S.-led coups against democratically elected governments in Haiti and Venezuela.
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Bush's Backfiring Ad Campaign

The gauzy, upbeat spots, which began airing last Thursday on national cable networks and in 17 states considered electoral battlegrounds, have immediately sparked outrage.
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Poll triumph for Spain Socialists - Mar 14, 2004

Turnout was high at 76 percent with voters seeming to expressd anger with the government, accusing it of provoking the Madrid attacks by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq, which most Spaniards opposed.

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power to the people

Officials say 63% of the electorate turned out to vote in the poll which ends eight years of conservative rule.

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