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NATO Agrees to Take Command of No-Fly Zone in Libya

NATO member nations approved the plan as allied warplanes delivered a ferocious round of airstrikes on Libyan ground forces.

Thousands March to Protest Syria Killings

No violence was reported in huge marches, but actions by Syrian forces suggested a hard line on protests.

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The potential military and political outcomes for Libya.

Japanese Town Mulls Future Without Whaling Industry

Japan’s tsunami seems to have succeeded — where years of boycotts by environmentalists had failed — in knocking out a pillar of the nation’s whaling industry.

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Madonna’s Plan for Malawi School Fails

Plans to build the $15 million all-girls’ school in Malawi have been abandoned amid criticism of what auditors called $3.8 million in outlandish expenditures.

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G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether

The company is skilled at avoiding taxes, lately to the extent that the Treasury owes the company money.

Tools Suggest Earlier Human Arrival in America

Researchers say the tools may be as old as 15,500 years, retiring a hypothesis that the so-called Clovis people arrived first.

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Gay Bar Mourns Elizabeth Taylor

The actress became a regular at the Abbey in West Hollywood, where customers and employees were saddened by her death.

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“Illegal” follows the struggles of an immigrant trying to stay in her adopted land.

 

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Wherever This May Be

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A Design So Far Out It Just Might Be In

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Irwin D. Simon, chief of the Hain Celestial Group, says that treating people right will make them want to be a part of your team.

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