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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Anyone who thinks the Afghanistan troop "surge" is a temporary, one-time deal should watch the construction here of a vast new $17 million barracks building.It’s not temporary. It’s three stories of concrete.Eight years after American forces scattered the Taliban...
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Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects.Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting on Hotjobs.com with an opening for a data entry clerk....
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Having children is the surest way to send your carbon footprint soaring, according to a new study from statisticians at Oregon State University.The study found that having a child has an impact that far outweighs that of other energy-saving behaviors.Take, for example, a hypothetical American...
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WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued signing statements claiming the authority to bypass dozens of provisions of bills enacted into law since he took office, provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties.President George W. Bush, citing expansive theories about his constitutional...
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As the Obama administration expands U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, military experts are warning that the United States is taking on security and political commitments that will last at least a decade and a cost that will probably eclipse that of the Iraq war.Since the invasion of Afghanistan...
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Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European...
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The US Treasury Secretary has asked Congress to increase the $12.1 trillion debt limit, saying a decision should be made in the next two months.In a Friday letter to US lawmakers, Timothy Geithner said the Treasury projects that the current debt limit, last raised in February when the $787...
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Before he became President George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary in 2006, Henry M. Paulson Jr. agreed to hold himself to a higher ethical standard than his predecessors. He not only sold all his holdings in Goldman Sachs, the investment bank he had run, but also specifically said that he would...
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Sanford may have broken law using state planes for tripshttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gAKPGkUgZ10RLL9o1aP3uxLpdpw/0/di
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Adviser: Gitmo closed by Januaryhttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/I4L82VECNwyiHEZVQF167g6U3Ao/0/di
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1 million flee China typhoonhttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/M2-EjDY_cD-CSXOeBWcMtfHsXb8/0/di
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Three more banks fail; '09 total at 72http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JPNb8xEzMrw46NZSlRfAUsU01cM/0/di
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'Brooks Brothers rioters' tied to mobshttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JkqVz3soSMNHoRFq6A8YAm2XdJM/0/di
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