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By Melissa Holbrook Pierson, on May 21st, 2013 Why do we use enormous resources to save some species and let others die? Melissa Holbrook Pierson on the strange ways of humans.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia’s federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee posing behind Vladimir Putin’s desk in the Kremlin, an official said on Tuesday. Pictures of the man, named Alexei Ustimchuk, sitting diminutively behind the giant desk in Putin’s Kremlin office, spread through the internet as people ridiculed the lack of security that permitted a simple employee such access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) — Medical examiner’s office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents. The 3-km wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Video: The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. See for yourself here. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program. The Fed is conducting its third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that it might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than expected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s June 14 presidential election steps up a gear on Tuesday when the Guardians Council releases the approved list of candidates who have passed muster under the vetting process. The unelected council, controlled by religious conservatives appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, must ensure that all candidates meet certain conditions before being allowed to stand. These conditions include being faithful to the principles of the Islamic republic and its official religion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Buy too much rice in Hong Kong and “you could end up in jail”, Chinese media warned tourists in the wake of the Guangzhou cadmium scandal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program. The Fed is conducting its third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that the Fed might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than expected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities brought criminal charges against three New York University researchers on Monday, alleging they conspired to take bribes from Chinese medical and research outfits for details about NYU research into magnetic resonance imaging technology. A criminal complaint filed in the US District Court in Manhattan charged Yudong Zhu, 44; Xing Yang, 31; and Ye Li, 31, with commercial bribery conspiracy in connection with NYU research financed by the US government. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The powerful tornado, rated the second highest strength level of EF4 and packing winds of up to 320km/h, touched down at midafternoon and devastated a wide area of the town. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 20th, 2013 Three senators are heroically attempting to reduce federal government price supports for America's sugar industry. Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski writes:
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A structure’s collapse in Cambodia’s capital injured 23 workers yesterday at a factory thought to be owned by a Hong Kong group and which produces garments for H&M, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s first disaster management institute has been set up in Sichuan after two deadly earthquakes struck the province in five years. The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction was jointly established this month by Polytechnic University and Sichuan University to support the province’s reconstruction and development. It is now enrolling its first batch of students in its four masters courses – in disaster nursing, prosthetics and orthotics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy – which start in September. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ADAM LIPTAK, on May 20th, 2013 A federal appeals court found that though the prayer at meetings in Greece, N.Y., could be given by members of all faiths and atheists, in practice almost all of the chaplains were Christian.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about industrial safety in the region. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Russian officer ‘posed at Putin’s desk to impress girls’
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia’s federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee posing behind Vladimir Putin’s desk in the Kremlin, an official said on Tuesday. Pictures of the man, named Alexei Ustimchuk, sitting diminutively behind the giant desk in Putin’s Kremlin office, spread through the internet as people ridiculed the lack of security that permitted a simple employee such access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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