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  • Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    July 19, 2009 By Xinhua News Agency

    (Xinhua) The couple of beekeepers Li Wenhua (C, front) and Yan Hongxia, are enshrouded with over 10,000 bees, by using the queen bee as a bait, to showcase their familiarity and intimacy with the bee and...

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  • COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia

    COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia

    July 19, 2009

    Original source: . Reposted by permission of the author. In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent...

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  • COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis  who should pay the bill?

    COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis who should pay the bill?

    July 19, 2009

    WHITTIER, Calif. — California’s state budget is still being debated with continued threats of cuts and services to the most needed in our state. Here in California we all continue to be on pins and needles...

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  • Pressure mounts to end Cuban travel ban

    Pressure mounts to end Cuban travel ban

    July 18, 2009 By John Bachtell

    CHICAGO -- Pressure is mounting on multiple fronts to end U.S. government travel and trade restrictions against Cuba: the only country in the world American citizens cannot freely visit. The battle is increasingly centering in the...

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  • Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras

    Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras

    July 18, 2009

    While every day dramatic scenes are acted out on the streets of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and other cities in Honduras, pro- and anti-coup forces are also active in the United States, and especially on Capitol...

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