News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Global warming: the final warning (Mark Lynas)
According to yesterday's UN report, the world will be a much hotter place by 2100. This will be the impact... Mark Lynas -- The Independent Published Feb. 3, 2007 +2.4°: Coral reefs almost extinct ...
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Russia probes smelly orange snow (BBC)
Russia has flown a team of chemical experts to a Siberian region to find out why smelly, coloured snow has been falling over several towns Feb. 2, 2007 -- (BBC) -- Oily yellow and orange snowflakes ...
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Technological Triage (John Michael Greer)
By John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Feb. 1, 2007 -- One of the major blind spots that gets in the way of trying to anticipate the shape of a deindustrial future in advance is the habit of ...
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Columnist Molly Ivins dies (John Moritz)
By JOHN MORITZ -- STAR-TELEGRAM AUSTIN BUREAU AUSTIN -- Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after ...
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Davos Elite Rebuffs Risk Warnings From Policy Makers (Adrian Cox)
By Adrian Cox Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Bankers, investors, and executives last week arrived at the Swiss resort of Davos giddy about record profits and bonuses. After five days of hectoring by policy ...
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2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount (M.R. Kropko)
M.R. KROPKO -- Associated Press Jan. 24, 2007 -- CLEVELAND -- Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election ...
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Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years: Bill Gates (Ben Hirschler)
Ben Hirschler Jan. 26, 2007 -- DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -- The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs ...
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Russian scientists 'alarmed' as millions of birds begin falling from world's skies (Sorcha Faal)
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers -- Pravda Jan. 26, 2007 -- An alarming series of reports from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Influenza Research Institute are ...
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Affluenza: Rampant consumerism erodes us (Paul Majendie)
By Paul Majendie -- Reuters Jan. 25, 2007 -- Beware the Affluenza Virus. An epidemic of mindless consumerism is sweeping the world with the compulsive pursuit of money and possessions making people ...
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Brown: Politics Played Role in Katrina (Associated Press)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jan. 20, 2007 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management ...
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Monster Bunnies For North Korea (David Crossland)
Fat German Rabbits To Feed Poor By David Crossland -- Der Speigel Jan. 10, 2007 -- An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big ...
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