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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businessman, who was snatched from a New York street in broad daylight, was bound and burned with acid while being held captive for a month in a city warehouse for a US$3 million ransom his family in Ecuador did not have, US authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Noah Charney, on May 20th, 2013 Noah Charney finds 10 mistakes and over-simplifications in Dan Brown’s new book ‘Inferno.’
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. A return trip to this former pariah state does not seem to be on Obama’s immediate itinerary. But US firms are on their way. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Labour umbrella groups Industrial Global Union and UNI Global Union yesterday praised top retailers for joining their drive to make Bangladesh’s garment factories safer, after 1,127 people died in a factory collapse last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twelve years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, another company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, tuber processing giant J.R. Simplot Co. asked the US government to approve five varieties of biotech potatoes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By NORIMITSU ONISHI, on May 14th, 2013 The spending plan released by Gov. Jerry Brown disappointed Democratic lawmakers who had hoped that rising revenues would finance social programs.
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By Malcolm Jones, on May 14th, 2013 Dan Brown takes on ‘Inferno’ and talks to Malcolm Jones about Dante, gravity boots, and more.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Weiling Zhang, a 10th-grade student at the Leman Manhattan Preparatory School, yearned to communicate with more conviction and verve than her peers back home in China – the “American way”, she said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JANET MASLIN, on May 12th, 2013 The author Dan Brown plays games with time, gender, identity, famous tourist attractions and futuristic medicine in “Inferno.”
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By Justin Green, on May 12th, 2013 This takedown of super famous author Dan Brown is so funny I cried:
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By Justin Green, on May 12th, 2013 Read Ross Douthat on the overhyped fears about the Tea Party and how such sentiments probably contributed to the IRS targeting conservative and libertarian groups for unfair scrutiny:
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Traces of water inside the moon probably came from the same place as water on earth, a fresh analysis of lunar rocks has found. The findings make for a clearer picture of our neighbour, once viewed as an arid expanse but now considered a frost-coated rock holding water throughout. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JERE LONGMAN, on May 10th, 2013 Aria Ottmueller, 17, and Charlotte Brown, 15, are pole vaulting in their high school state meets this weekend, further redefining the able-bodied athlete.
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By Winston Ross, on May 10th, 2013 Sylvia Browne’s certainty caught up with her in Cleveland. Other mediums saw it coming. By Winston Ross.
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> They were nine women out for a night on the town to celebrate the recent wedding of the guest of honour, Neriza Fojas, 31, who was planning to repeat her wedding vows next month in her native Philippines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A limousine taking nine women to a night on the town to celebrate a newlywed bride erupted in flames, killing five of the passengers who were trapped inside as the other four escaped with burn and smoke inhalation injuries, authorities said on Sunday. Relatives said the bride was among the dead. The driver, who was not hurt, told investigators he was driving the women on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge on Saturday night when one of them complained of smoke inside the passenger compartment, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on May 3rd, 2013 Massachusetts Republicans might have found their next Scott Brown.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In southern Kentucky, where some children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks was cleaning the kitchen as her five-year-old son played with the rifle he was given last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In Kentucky, where some children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks was cleaning the kitchen as her five-year-old son played with the small rifle he was given last year. Then, as she stepped onto the front porch, “she heard the gun go off,” a coroner said. In a horrific accident on Tuesday that shocked a rural area far removed from the US debate over gun control, her son, Kristian, had fatally shot his two-year-old sister, Caroline, in the chest, authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Businessman burned with acid in month-long kidnap ordeal in New York
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