Russian media started reporting the forest fires in bits and pieces in mid-July, but it only became a full-blown story when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the burned down village of Verkhnyaya Vereya in the Nizhny Novgorod region.…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

F-15E Strike Eagles Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in the latest Atlantic, on whether Israel will (or should) attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months, is the best article I’ve read on the subject—shrewd and balanced reporting combined with soph…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

The unsettled state of the tax code is a monument to George W. Bush’s determination to cut taxes and to Congressional unwillingness to compromise, either in 2001 or…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

California voters passed Proposition 8 as a state constitutional amendment in November 2008, five months after the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex unions and an estimated 18,000 same-sex couples already had tied the knot. Three people protested among the crowd to oppose Walker’s ruling Thursday. “It’s a really sad day for Californians, for families, for
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CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt on Thursday began unifying calls to prayer that ring out five times a day from thousands of minarets across the capital, but the move has been criticised by the men who make the call or azzan. The ministry of religious endowments says it will implement the plan neighbourhood by neighbourhood until
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BP was also slapped with record fines for the pollution released as a result of the 2005 blast and failures to meet air quality standards afterwards. BP is accused of illegally releasing approximately 500,000 pounds of harmful air pollutants over the course of 40 days earlier this year after a compressor caught fire due to
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WE’RE SWINGING ON ANCHOR this afternoon as powerful bursts of wind blow down through the Makua Valley and out to sea.…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

Tenure can hurt students and universitiesImagine you ran a restaurant. A very prestigious, exclusive restaurant.…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

Sometimes technology does not work. Faced with a drastic decline in state funding, administrators at the California State University’s Bakersfield campus decided to cut costs by replacing all the sections of the remedial mathematics course in the fall of…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator

Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and sitting on some of Lebanon’s most expensive real estate is a green space with no plans for development—at the American University of Beirut.…. Read this article Full Text RSS Feeds | WordPress Auto Translator