With golf courses closing because of failed real estate developments, a South Carolina club, which was purchased by residents, is an example of a new working model in the industry.

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Members Dig In to Preserve Struggling Golf Clubs

On June 1, Washington State is converting its 78-year-old liquor sales system from state to private control.

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In Washington State, Liquor Stores Are About to Go Private

Two rebel groups that seized nothern Mali two months ago agree to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state, both sides say.

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Mali rebels agree to Sharia state

Syrian opposition activists are begging for international help in stopping the government's sustained slaughter after regime forces devastated a town Friday, killing 88 people — mostly children, an opposition group said.

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Syrian opposition: Scores slaughtered

When it comes to key warriors in America’s battle over the causes of climate change, few rival Pennsylvania State University professor Michael E. Mann . Mann, who directs the Penn State Earth System Science Center, led a 1998 reconstruction of temperature records going back thousands of years and showing that global averages had shot up in recent decades. Read full article > >

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Book review: Michael Mann’s ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars’

Why Will Self won’t drink a toast to the Queen or any head of state

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A Point of View: I’m not toasting [insert head-of-state here]

Thousands of public sector workers go on strike in Norway, in a pay dispute – the first walk-out by state employees since 1984.

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Norwegian workers in rare strike

Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a nuclear submarine early Thursday at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Maine after battling it for hours, according to a statement released by the shipyard.

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Fire on nuclear sub extinguished

North Korea appears to be ready to carry out a nuclear test whenever leaders of the reclusive state give the green light, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry said Thursday.

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Seoul: N. Korea ready for nuclear test

Mexican authorities have arrested a man they say shot an American freelance journalist to death at a 2006 protest, state media reported.

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Suspect held in U.S. man’s Mexico killing

Alleged Mexican drug lord Sergio Villarreal, known as El Grande, is extradited to the United States for trial on charges of drug trafficking.

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Mexico extradites ‘drug kingpin’

The shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg has called for all state school pupils to be given lessons in public speaking and interview techniques.

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Call for school speaking lessons

The state should do more to help addicts and make them employable, Iain Duncan Smith will say, with removing benefits a “hypothetical” option.

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Welfare ‘letting addicts down’

While Mitt Romney wins primaries in two states.

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‘Uncommitted’ Challenges Obama in KY

Barack Obama might embarrass himself tonight. Well, not embarrass himself as much as be embarrassed by the Arkansas presidential primary results. See, the president isn’t very popular in that state — he has essentially zero chance of carrying it in November — and there’s a no-name candidate on the ballot, and so there’s some speculation that the president might do very poorly indeed . Read full article > >

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Jonathan Bernstein: The primaries that matter today