21 Nov 2008 at 5:17pm More than 1,000 angry Shantou taxi drivers took to the streets to protest against competition from unlicensed operators on Thursday, the latest strike in a tide of similar action across the country in the past three weeks. The action was also the ...
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9 Nov 2008 at 6:58pm ?Realigning elections? are not things that can be judged in the moment. It takes time ? and more elections ? to understand whether what happened was unique to that moment in history or the signs of a coming wave. And so it is with the 2008 ...
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4 Nov 2008 at 12:44pm This may not be the best of times for residents of Lagos as armed robbers have literarily taken over the metropolis, unleashing terror on citizens. In the last one week, it had been different tales of woes from most part of the state. Mostly hit are ...
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30 Oct 2008 at 7:52pm Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press Cars travel along an avenue in Buenos Aires, where there is a steady stream of tourists. There I sat, amid the authentic French atmosphere, stunned. The handsome, dark-haired Argentine waiter looked at me ...
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26 Oct 2008 at 7:57pm To underscore that voting third party or not voting at all will help elect McCain and Palin, and thereby re-empower the self-righteous ideologues who berated progressives, liberals, democrats, greens, libertarians, etc., for the past 8 years while ...
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25 Oct 2008 at 8:58pm FAIR USE NOTICE: This paper contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material available in my effort to advance understanding of voting system issues. I ...
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18 Oct 2008 at 8:59pm Well shiver me timbers! I recently had the opportunity to return to the high seas and once again steamed manfully out of Sunda Kelapa one salty Sunday morning. I'm getting a bit ahead of myself however. First things first. I had to traverse Jakarta ...
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14 Aug 2008 at 5:16pm This scale model of San Francisco?s Treasure Island shows the mix of dense housing, a canopied retail area and a convenient ferry terminal that will help make it both pedestrian- and eco-friendly. Every day, a few hundred thousand vehicles cross ...
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9 Aug 2008 at 5:36pm LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Honda Civic Tour (HCT) featuring Panic At The Disco is one of the hottest tickets in town, selling out shows on both coasts and announcing additional dates. With tickets going fast, a second set of dates ...
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7 Aug 2007 at 9:00am RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 26 (Tierramérica) - The continued expansion of Brazil's motorcycle industry over the past 13 years has polluted the air of the major cities and increased the number of traffic accidents, which kill 30,000 Brazilians a year and ...
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