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Nuclear Doomsday Clock may finally stop ticking
February 26, 2009UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament....
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Iran ‘tests’ first nuclear power station
February 26, 2009Original source: Iran declared on Wednesday that its technicians have started a test run of the country's first nuclear power station. The power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr was built with Russian help...
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The fat-cat controller
February 26, 2009Original source: Rail workers heaped scathing criticism on their 'Fat Controller' bosses on Wednesday for plotting to award each other hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in bonuses. Network Rail executives were revealed to...
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Charles Darwin at 200: Solidarity is the best survival strategy
February 26, 2009The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, Feb. 12, brought back memories of a college course I took in which the topic was “social Darwinism,” a philosophy that exalted dog-eat-dog greed in the name of “survival...
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The progressive approach to fiscal responsibility
February 26, 2009Fiscal responsibility, the code word for balancing the budget, is on everyone's lips in Washington these days. With a federal budget deficit close to $2 trillion inherited from the Bush administration, the Obama White House is...
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