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A day after ending an official period of mourning for Kim Jong Il, North Korea today warned “foolish politicians around the world” not to expect any policy changes under the leadership of... full story
A recent report has concluded that multi-drugs resistant TB is "spreading at an alarming rate” in Europe and Central Asia. TB, a global pandemic which kills an estimated 1.4 million people... full story
Brazil now has at least 1.2 million crack users — this in a nation of just under 200 million — according to the Parliamentary Front to Combat Crack, a committee of government officials... full story
As far as natural disasters are concerned, it would be difficult to experience a year worse than 2010. With a string of devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and then several massive volcanic... full story
A volcanic eruption has created a new island in the Red Sea between Yemen and Eritrea, CNN reported.
On Dec. 23, NASA’s Earth-Observing-1 satellite snapped a picture showing a mass of cooled... full story
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Michael Lewis has scored again, this time with a great column on a particularly funny slice of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Check out this brilliant satire in Bloomberg that Lewis wrote in response to a recent Occupy Princeton event where protesters disrupted a JP... full story
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