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Last week, the federal government released the first comprehensive tally [1] of the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package. And while the White House has heralded marquee projects [2] like road construction and solar panel factories, the stimulus package is also made up of hundreds of smaller purchases like office supplies, gasoline and lab rats
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“EVERY day I was in Vietnam, I thought about home. And, every day I’ve been home, I’ve thought about Vietnam.' So said one of the millions of soldiers who fought there as I did. Change the name of the battlefield and it could have been said by one of the American servicemen coming home from Iraq or Afghanistan today. Wars are not over when the shooting stops. They live on in the lives of those who fight them. That is the curse of the soldier. He never forgets."
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"Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and beat civilians. Yet the Kimberley Process, the diamond body, said those gems don't qualify as "blood diamonds," and instead of sanctioning Zimbabwe is giving the country another chance to get its Marange fields under control."
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"The Queen is due to attend the Festival of Remembrance at London's Royal Albert Hall to commemorate those who gave their lives for their country"
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"Obesity causes more than 100 000 cases of cancer in the United States each year - and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday. Having too much body fat causes nearly half the cases of endometrial cancer - a type of cancer of the uterus - and a third of esophageal cancer cases, the American Institute for Cancer Research said."
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"Scientists have developed an atlas of the bacteria that live in different regions of the human body. Some of the microbes help keep us healthy by playing a key role in physiological functions"
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...and some of them make you smell like rotting pizza....
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"A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85 000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso"
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"Diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in south-eastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak or walk, and she sometimes has seizures. Now, Lamic's parents are planning to broadcast her quiet life to the world via webcam. Their announcement has caused a stir in France, with many criticising the plan as an invasion of Lamic's privacy and asking: How far is too far in the struggle to make disabled people more visible in society?"
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""The show is about the space between reality, dreams and fear. There are times when a dream is so real and vivid that you treat it as reality," says Emin."
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I'm guessing one of the things not touching in that dream-picture is a spell checker.
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Just remember the whole alien abduction phenomenon was started by a woman's dream. Sometimes it's God talking to you, sometimes it's your anima or anime talking to you, sometimes it's just a mind dump. It's sometimes just something that you made a note of one day and had no other context. Tread lightly and without any preconceptions.
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"Golden Girls actress Rue McClanahan is recovering in a New York hospital following heart bypass surgery, her manager has said. The 75-year-old was diagnosed with acute cardiac illness on Monday after a routine trip to her doctor who advised her to go to hospital"
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"Qatar is poised to emerge as a major centre for embryonic stem cell research, one of the most advanced and highly controversial fields of medical studies. Weill Cornel Medical College in Qatar is set to embark on research projects that will facilitate the setting up of an independent stem cell research laboratory in Doha. The facility will have technology to expand, maintain and validate the new human embryonic stem cells and in developing cell lines"
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"The team's robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet of cable dangling from a helicopter. Powered by a ground-based laser pointed up at the robot's photo voltaic cells that converted the light into electricity, the LaserMotive machine completed one of its climbs in about three minutes and 48 seconds, good for second-place money"
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Legend has it that on the 15th day of the 6th month of the Tibetan lunar year marks the day for the reincarnation of Sakyamuni, founder of Buddhism. Later, the day became the Buddha Painting Displaying Festival of the Ganden Monastery, a leading monastery of the Tibetan Buddhism near Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region
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""The American Legion extends condolences to the victims and the families of those affected by the shootings at Fort Hood. The facts are not all out and there is still much about the events that we do not yet know. We do know, however, that The American Legion will reach out to assist any soldiers, family members or other victims of this horrible tragedy in any way possible. We will release further statements as the facts become known.""
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"Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence. "Life begins with hope and definitely one day the adversity will be removed and the smile will return again on the children's lips," said Dafaie, whose final lines of his poem he delivered in the first poetic festival, were carried out by Union of Writers and Poets on Thursday in Baquba, the provincial capital."
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