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Experts release 37 recommendations to increase safety in the Americas Cup
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of sailing experts has released 37 recommendations they say will increase safety in the America's Cup, which is set to take place on the wind-raked San Francisco Bay this summer. Led by regatta director Iain Murray, the group unveiled the proposals Wednesday evening, nearly two weeks after a practice run on the bay turned deadly. Among those recommendations are ...
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Obama presents Carole King with Gershwin Prize
Carole King " at a Washington ceremony Wednesday night. King became the first woman to win the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The prize was created by the Library of Congress in 2007 to honor George ...
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Basements scarce in tornado-prone area
>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on 'AC360' tonight, 8pm ET. (CNN) -- It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most others. "Probably less than one ...
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Karima El Mahroug dressed as Obama at Silvio Berlusconi bunga bunga party
A girl at one of Silvio Berlusconi’s "bunga bunga" parties did a dance while dressed up as Barack Obama, the woman at the centre of the sex scandal told a court today. Moroccan dancer Karima El Mahroug, 20, claimed ex-Italian PM Mr Berlusconi plied women with cash and gifts at parties in his home near Milan in 2010. She said: "The girls dressed in costumes and ...
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Ford grows in America shrinks in Australia
Ford Motor Co. is adding production, and 3,500 jobs, in North America as it tries to keep up with Americans’ appetite for new cars and trucks. But the automaker will end production in Australia, cutting 1,200 jobs by 2016, as high costs left it unable to ...
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Urban renewal Big US cities showing strong growth
WASHINGTON -; Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight ...
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For some homeowners a house is a canvas
In this photo taken April, 2013, resident Richard Ormbrek stands next to his house, which has been decorated with a 20-foot wide American flag made up of 180 individually-painted tiles, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Cedar ...
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Canadian Intellectuals to Give a Lecture on Hugo Chavez Legacy
Ottawa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Canadian intellectuals will deliver a lecture today, at the University of Ottawa, on the legacy of the deceased Venezuelan President for his country, Latin America and the Caribbean. The writer Arnold August and the economist Michel Chossudovsky will talk on the main aspects of the political life of the Venezuelan revolutionary leader, his efforts to recover ...
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Obama Promises His Speech Will End Some Day
President Obama is expected to announce that the eternal war on the world will have an end. When? He won't say. I too have an announcement. I promise my drinking problem will end some day. When? I'm not saying. But the celebrations of the armistice in 1918 began when plans for it were announced, and the partying continued until it actually happened. Perhaps that is the best ...
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Team Obama’s endless Syria bungling
Since his inauguration, President Obama’s gullibility about Syria’s brutal dictatorship and its ally Russia’s Middle East objectives has injured America’s stakes in the region. In the third year of Syria’s bloody, grinding civil war, Assad remains in power, contrary to near-universal predictions in the West, and Moscow is still running rings around Washington.Obama ...
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How quick thinking saved family from almost certain death
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Bid to tighten Americas Cup safety
23 May 2013 Sailing experts have made 37 recommendations they say will increase safety in the America's Cup, following the death of British Olympic sailing champion Andrew ...
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It takes more than a tornado to crush spirit of small town
Caitlin McBride - 23 May 2013 I remember once, when I was a child growing up in New York, gathering in my basement with my mother and sister after our neighbourhood was placed under a tornado ...
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Little pals died hand in hand
Antonia Lee Candelaria and Emily Conatzer, inseparable nine-year-old best friends, died hand-in-hand in the rubble.And Janae Hornsby (9), described by her father as "sunshine on rainy day", was also among the seven pupils killed when Plaza Towers elementary school in ...
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Gun rights advocates file lawsuit over Conn. gun law
April 10, 2013: A rack of AR-15 rifles stand to be individually packaged as workers move a pallet of rifles for shipment at the Stag Arms company in New Britain, ...
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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube- Polish man gets face transplant 3 weeks after injury
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth defect, the ...
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Obama offers big shift on drones terror policy
The Obama administration formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens in drone strikes outside the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, saying its actions were justified by the danger to the United ...
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Gov. Fallin on Obama’s visit ‘We hope it brings encouragement’
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin talks to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell about President Obama's upcoming visit and the road to recovery in Moore, Oklahoma after the massive tornado that left at least 24 ...
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Wait time and primary care reforms stalled
Shortening wait times for hip and knee replacements, increasing electronic health records and starting a national pharmacare strategy are stalled, according to a new progress report. The Health Council of Canada releases its report on health care renewal in Saskatoon on ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford sacked as football coach
Rob Ford coaches the Don Bosco football team. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/Toronto Sun files) Players on the Don Bosco Eagles football team are backing now ex-coach Mayor Rob Ford, who was dumped Wednesday by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. A statement from the TCDSB Wednesday says Ford was notified of the boardâs decision to âpursue a different directionâ with a ...
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Too-Big-To-Jail Dogs Obamas Justice Department As Government Documents Raise Questions
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have neither conducted nor received any analyses that would show whether criminal charges against large financial institutions would harm the economy, potentially undermining a key DOJ argument for why the world's biggest banks have escaped indictment. Testimony by a top Justice official and fresh documents made public on Wednesday during ...
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Obama Drones Speech To Lay Out Rationale Reiterate Guantanamo Bay Prison Closure Pledge
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official ...
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Hillary Clinton accepts humanitarian award in NYC
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs as she gives a speech during a ceremony honoring her at the Pentagon in Washington. Clinton was honored with the 2013 Helen Keller Humanitarian Award from Helen Keller International in New York on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, ...
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Fire Marshals Office Panel had blast site access
AUSTIN, Texas -; The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 ...
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Troubled Past Aside Obama Wants Putin As Ally
Dmitry Medvedev , now the country's Prime Minister, discussed a "reset" of relations, the Cold War's Punch & Judy have been more like frenemies than friends. Obama reaffirmed on Wednesday his desire to strengthen the beleaguered bilateral relationship with Russia during talks with ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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