| World News  | McCain: Stand up and fight
News24
St Paul - Republican John McCain cast himself as an independent-minded reformer on Thursday, vowed "change is coming" if he is elected president and promised to create millions of jobs by developing new energy sources. "We will attack the problem on every front. We will produce more energy at home," he said in a speech to the Republican National Convention. McCain accepted his party's presidential nomination in a packed convention hall, insisting...
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|  | Can a 72-year-old rich white man be an agent of change?
Globe and Mail
When John McCain scanned Republican delegates last night, he saw the affluent, the elderly and the white, people very much like himself. Less than 2 per cent of the Republican delegates were black, compared with 12 per cent of the population, and only 2 per cent were Hispanic, compared with 15 per cent of the population. Fewer than half were women. Eighty per cent of Americans believe their country is headed in the wrong direction, but most...
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|  | Remarks by Vice President Cheney and President Saakashvili of Georgia
WorldNews.com
PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI: Well, I would like to welcome Mr. Vice President. And thank you for your visit, for your support, and for your solidarity. Let me, on behalf of my people, extend my gratitude for the assistance package you have pledged for Georgia. We heard a statement from your President Bush yesterday, and by Secretary Rice, as well, as we discussed in our conversation. The support of the United States, now more than ever, reflects just...
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|  | Japan's former Foreign Minister Taro Aso announces bid to lead ruling party
Newsday
TOKYO (AP) _ Japan's brash, right-leaning former foreign minister announced Friday that he would run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as Japan's next prime minister. Taro Aso, 67, is widely considered the front-runner to replace struggling Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who announced Monday that he would step down amid sagging poll numbers and...
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|  | Magazine: Russia's Putin sexy, but not that sexy
The Guardian
AP Photo MOSB502, MOSB508, MOSB507, MOSB501By CATRINA STEWART and NATALIYA VASILYEVA Associated Press Writers MOSCOW (AP) - He single-handedly saved a TV crew from the jaws of a tiger. He flexed his muscles in front of the cameras in Siberia. He cuts a dash on the ski slopes. A former president, he is Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but not quite Russia's sexiest politician. At least, that is, according to Russia's Sex & the City magazine. In its...
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| Business News  | Honda bringing back Insight nameplate for hybrid
Syracuse
TOKYO (AP) - Honda is bringing back the defunct Insight nameplate for a hybrid-only vehicle planned for the Japanese, European and North American markets early next year, as the automaker strives to play catch-up with rival Toyota in hybrids. Toyota Motor Corp. has been wildly successful by promoting the Prius as a hybrid-only model - a move often praised as effective in highlighting its commitment to ecological technology. But the industry view...
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|  | Amazon to sell laptops from foundation
The Boston Globe
Low-cost laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge will go on sale at this holiday season, making the $200 computers available for the first time through a retail store. The foundation's founder, Nicholas Negroponte, said the deal with the online retailer should eliminate delivery problems that arose last year during the first effort to sell...
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|  | Coca-Cola deal major test for China's new anti-monopoly law
Business Report
By DArcy Doran Shanghai - The fate of Coca-Cola's proposed takeover of China's Huiyuan Juice Group is in the hands of Chinese regulators in the first high-profile test of Beijing's fledgling anti-monopoly law. If approved, analysts say Coca-Cola's $2.4 billion (R18.8 billion) purchase would be the largest foreign takeover of a Chinese company. Coke officials are saying little about how long it will take for Beijing authorities to approve the...
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|  | As oil costs ease, other prices hold steady
The State
Manufacturers who passed increases on to consumers now are resisting a rollback By LOUIS UCHITELLE and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM - The New York Times As oil prices surged this year, manufacturers raised the prices of a lot of products - not just gasoline but lotions, toothpaste, plastics and many more that use oil as a raw material. But now that oil costs are plunging, other prices are not following them lower - not yet, anyway. Even though oil prices...
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|  | Wet summer brings mushroom boom to Northeast
The Associated Press
ACRA, N.Y. (AP) -- There's a mushroom boom in the wet woods of the Northeast this summer. Hillsides bloom with black trumpets. Disc-shaped mushrooms called artist's conch sprout from tree trunks. Forests are laced with tasty chanterelles giving off faint whiffs of apricot and with a pretty but deadly variety called destroying angels. "For the last two summers we've had lousy crops of mushrooms because it was too hot and it was too dry,"...
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| Entertainment News  | Oprah on top of her Games
Toronto Sun
It's not unusual for high-profile multi-zillionaires to buy themselves a pro sports franchise to play with. Just ask Mark Cuban. Likely bored with the Dallas Mavericks, he has been eyeing up the Chicago Cubs. (The 100-year curse will be thrown in for free.) Oprah Winfrey, who owns everything in Chicago but the sports franchises -- well, she went out and bought the entire U.S. Olympic team! Not really. But the Grand Old Oprah did bring almost 150...
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|  | LI says 'I do' to 'Wedding Singer' and 8 other shows
Newsday
1 The Wedding Singer (Sept. 17-Oct. 4, Gateway Playhouse, Bellport). The musical comedy based on what many believe is 's best movie role makes its premiere. Set in the rock-angst heyday of 1985, it's about a rock-star wannabe who's the life of the party until his fiancee leaves him holding the ring at the altar. gateway playhouse .com, 631-286- 1133. I Love You Because (Sept. 20-Oct. 19, Studio Theatre, Lindenhurst). For the first time in five...
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|  | Britney Spears to kick off MTV video awards
Newsday
Despite her train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the network confirms will kick off the show once again. But it won't be a performance. Instead, MTV Networks Music Group president Van Toffler said yesterday, it'll be something "fun and unexpected" on Sunday night's show. Unexpected is probably the kindest way to describe Spears' performance at last year's VMAs. She gave an unfocused, almost unwatchable performance of...
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|  | Open Air Magazine Fall Issue Available September 5
The Examiner
Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE McLEAN, Va. (Map) - MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Open Air Magazine continues to give its readers a unique perspective on the active lifestyle with its third issue, available on newsstands Friday, Sept. 5. Published by USA TODAY, the nation's top-selling newspaper, Open Air is available in Friday editions of the newspaper. The on-sale date for the winter edition is Nov. 7....
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|  | Online TV Grows in Popularity
The Examiner
Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE NEW YORK (Map) - NEW YORK, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Online TV viewing has been gaining in popularity. Nearly one-fifth of American households who use the internet watch television broadcasts online, double the viewership from 2006, The Conference Board and TNS report today. The top two destinations for online broadcasts are the official TV channel homepage and YouTube.com. Most consumers do...
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|  | Good Book inspires year of fun-loving living
The Columbus Dispatch
Readers might not have an epiphany while reading A.J. Jacobs' The Year of Living Biblically, but they might laugh and think more about faith. In The Year of Living Biblically, Jacobs, an editor at Esquire magazine, tried to follow biblical precepts as closely as possible for a year and recorded the hilarious results. The book became a New York Times bestseller and, God willing, might become a film. His previous book, The Know-It-All, had Jacobs...
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|  | Serena edges Venus in all-Williams US Open quarter
AOL
NEW YORK (AP) - Serena Williams watched the final shot sail beyond the baseline, and immediately her sister called for an instant-replay challenge. At that point, Venus Williams really had nothing else to lose. So more than 20,000 fans hushed Wednesday night, looking at the giant video boards high above Arthur Ashe Stadium. A moment later, the call was confirmed and the crowd roared: Serena had won this family affair at the U.S. Open. It may have...
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| Health News  | President defends smokers
News24
Brasilia - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday gave a rare defence of smokers' rights, arguing that people should be allowed to smoke where they choose, local newspapers reported. "Really, I am defending the idea that people be allowed to smoke anywhere they choose," Lula told the daily Agora. And "the only people who smoke are those who are hooked", Lula said, when asked about draft legislation seeking to ban smoking in...
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|  | Harmful buried chemicals still awaiting proper disposal
Asahi News
Moves to dispose of hundreds of tons of harmful insecticides and pesticides that were buried as a temporary measure in the 1970s remain on hold because of bureaucratic inertia and funding shortages. The central government had planned to finish the disposal work by spring 2009 in accordance with an international treaty it ratified in 2002. As of now, some 2,083 tons of chemicals remain buried in 10 prefectures. Prefectural authorities in those...
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|  | N.J. urged to boost prenatal care
Philadelphia Daily News
To help at-risk women, a task force called for education and broader access to insurance. By Chris Newmarker Associated Press TRENTON - Warning that pregnant women most at risk of losing their babies aren't getting enough care, a New Jersey task force yesterday called for better education and improved access to health insurance, among other recommendations. "Teens, minorities, unmarried mothers, and mothers with less education remain less likely...
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|  | Society's alarming ignorance of childbirth
The Providence Journal
THE MASSACHUSETTS legislature has dropped the ball on women's health care. A bill to provide an "umbrella" for all three groups of professional midwives (Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives), with enhanced standardized regulations and oversight made no progress through either house before the session ended. Boston's Weekly Dig quoted Rep. Vincent Pedone (D.-Worcester), who put a hold on the bill due to...
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|  | DOH vows to meet deadline on provisions of medicine law
The Philippine Star
An official of the Department of Health (DOH) yesterday assured representatives of various civic organizations that the agency would be able to meet the Nov. 4 deadline for the release of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for the law espousing cheaper medicine. Health Undersecretary Alex Padilla issued the statement when five non-government organizations (NGO) handed over their version of the draft IRR, with the hope that some of the...
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|  | French cheeses recalled over listeria fear
Irish Times
Related�� Food businesses closed over health concerns | 04/09/2008External�� Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI)The Irish Times take no responsibility for the content or availability of other websitesCONOR POPE The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has issued a product recall of a number of French soft cheeses amid fears that they may have been contaminated with listeria. Listeria is life-threatening, and only small amounts need to be...
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|  | Editorial: Heart surgery in dire straits
NZ Herald
Your Views Have you had to wait for a heart operation? Related nzherald links: For many years Auckland's Green Lane Hospital was renowned throughout the country, and in the medical world, as a centre of excellence in cardiac surgery. It was one of the first to perform bypass operations and pioneered die injections to the heart for x-ray imaging, the development of pacemakers, anaesthesia for complex heart surgery and valve replacements. In 1962,...
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| Politics News  | Sarah Palin can have it all -
Yahoo Daily News
By Barbara Curtis 42 minutes ago Bluemont, Va. - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pregnant daughter. Sarah Palin's life – chock full of challenge – confronts her opposition with some formidable challenges of its own. After decades of pushing equal rights and treatment for women, the Left is backtracking....
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|  | Cheney visits Ukraine divided on NATO
Canada Dot Com
KIEV (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney discusses the Georgia crisis on Friday with Ukrainian leaders, whose country is deeply divided over NATO membership and distracted by a domestic political crisis. Cheney is on a whistle-stop tour of southern Caucasus and Black Sea states designed to shore up support for U.S. allies there after Russia's five-day war last month with Georgia. An outspoken Moscow critic, Cheney came to Kiev after talks...
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|  | US Hypocrisy Reaches Critical Mass
The People's Voice
Dick Cheney - proud mass-murderer Bzangy Groink US Vice-President Dick Cheney has condemned what he called Russia's "illegitimate" attempt to change Georgia's borders last month. Mr Cheney added that Russia's actions during the recent conflict with Georgia had cast doubt on its reliability as an international partner. (Source: BBC News) This is the same Dick Cheney that said that the butchering of over one million Iraqis by illegally invading US...
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|  | India allays NSG fears on N-deal
The Times of India
5 Sep 2008, 1350 hrs IST,AGENCIES NEW DELHI: India on Friday issued suo moto statement to allay NSG fears. ( ) “India is committed to concluding the Fissile Material Cut off Treaty (FMOT),” Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. “India won’t be a source of proliferation of nuclear material,” the foreign minister added. Mukherjee said India was committed to its unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing. He...
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|  | Mbeki cancels trip as Tsvangirai spurns 'hopeless' meeting�
Business Day
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki was forced to cancel his trip to Zimbabwe to try to break the power-sharing talks deadlock after opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangiari told him he would not attend. Sources said yesterday Tsvangiari wrote a letter to Mbeki on Tuesday telling him he would not be in Harare to attend the talks , compelling Mbeki to cancel his visit scheduled for yesterday. "Tsvangirai did not want to attend...
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|  | McCain tells convention, nation he'll bring change
Houston Chronicle
ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the "constant partisan rancor" that grips Washington as he launched his fall campaign for the White House. "Change is coming," he promised the roaring Republican National Convention and a prime-time television audience. "Fight with me. Fight with me. Fight with me. Fight for what's right for our country," he urged in a convention crescendo. To repeated...
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