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The Dalai Lama jokes with nasal spray when asked about A/H1N1 flu
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama joked with nasal spray in his nose after being asked about A/H1N1 flu at a news conference after his first lecture in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday. (Valentin Flauraud/Reuters) A relative mourned Tuesday in Herat, Afghanistan, at the funeral of stude …
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J.C. Penney Takes Manhattan
Friday, J.C. Penney opened its first-ever department store in Manhattan. (See related article.) J.C. Penney, long a seller of cheap basics to Middle America, will highlight trendy new lines made by designers like Ralph Lauren and Charlotte Ronson at its Manhattan store. The 107 year-old retailer ha …
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Making Marijuana Legit
The Obama administration’s decision to ease off on busting medical marijuana businesses is attracting people ready to switch careers at a time of deep recession. (See related article.) After years underground, medical marijuana is becoming a legitimate business in California. The Obama administrati …
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Fire Chief’s Pension Sparks Debate
Three days before Pete Nowicki announced he was retiring, fire department trustees agreed to increase his salary in a practice called pension spiking. The resulting bump in his annual pension has angered colleagues and residents in this Northern California area. (See related article.) Retired Orind …
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Middle-Class Dream Slips Out of Reach in Las Vegas
In boom years, Las Vegas offered something almost no other place in America did: upward mobility for the working class. But the recession has jolted the city and by many measures, its rise and fall has been more dramatic than most. (See related article.) Much as jobs on Detroits assembly lines gave …
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Apollo’s Historic Lunar Landing
Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing by American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. (See related article.) In 1961, President John F. Kennedy spoke before a joint session of Congress in Washington. During the address, Kennedy issued …
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Neighborhood Survival
In West Oak Lane, a blue collar neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia, community advocates are trying to beat back the recession one house at a time. (See related article.) Houses were reflected on a window as Margaret Shepherd looked out from the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corp. (OARC) office, …
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Superman Birthplace Is Restored
Superman devotees from around the world joined forces to refurbish the childhood home of the co-creator of their fictitious comic-book icon. (See related article.) Since Superman was born in Cleveland seven decades ago, visitors from around the world have made pilgrimages to what they consider holy …
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Water of Last Resort
With cities across southern California increasingly resorting to desperate measures to secure water, the town of Carlsbad will break ground on a controversial seawater desalination plant next year. (See related article.) Carlsbad Mayor Claude Lewis and other elected officials have dodged environmen …
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Aid Eludes Some Jobless
Many unemployed in Alabama and Mississippi dont qualify for unemployment benefits because their states turned down millions in federal stimulus cash to expand unemployment insurance. (See related article.) Alabama and Mississippi rejected federal funds earmarked to help part-time, seasonal and low- …
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Pfizer Seeks New Sales in Slums
Pfizer is sending sales representatives to the far reaches of the dangerous slums in Caracas, Venezuela, in an attempt to grab market share in the barrio economy. (See related article.) For the first time in a half-century, sales of prescription drugs are forecast to decline this year in the U.S., …
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Fueling Europe
European Union countries are turning to U.S. wood pellet manufacturers to meet renewable energy demands back home, boosting sales of the lowly fuel. (See related article.) As European utilities snatch up wood pellets to meet renewable energy mandates in their countries, new industrial-scale U.S. pe …
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Inside Yangon, Myanmar
Yangon was the capital of Myanmar until the government moved it about 320 km to Naypyitaw in 2005. The economic crisis and neglect of the military junta has left much of the city in disrepair. . (See related article.) A woman in Yangon, which was formely called Rangoon. Yangon remains a semi-rural …
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Unemploy - June 16
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Bank Failure Angers Both Victims and Supporters
The failure of New Frontier Bank in northeast Colorado wiped out shareholders, eliminated more than 200 jobs and deprived nonprofits of one of their most generous benefactors. But many here stand by their bank. (See related article.) New Frontier Bank was chartered in a double-wide trailer in 1998. …
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A Monk’s Immigration Saga
Thai Monk Phra Bunphithak Jomthong has served at a Californian Buddhist community since he arrived from Thailand four years ago. Now he is fighting deportation for unauthorized employment. (See related article.) Monk Phra Bunphithak Jomthong, third from right in this photo taken in Los Angeles last …
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Homeless and Online in San Francisco
In America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have Internet addresses, but staying wired on the streets takes determination. Charles Pitts checks the Internet at the H2O Cafe on Polk Street in San Francisco. Mr. Pitts, 37, says he has been homeless for two years. (Brian L …
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New York Tower Stings Springfield, Mo.
Losses at the police and firefighters pension fund in part from a real-estate gamble have thrown Springfield, Mo., into its worst budget crisis in decades. A billion-dollar speculative office tower is rising empty in midtown New York, bad news for hundreds of pension funds, including that of Spr …
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GM’s Many Lives
People from around the U.S. share their stories about what General Motors has meant to their lives, and the impact of the auto makers collapse. (Hear more from each person.) Michael Martin, Owner, Dudley Martin Chevrolet and Saturn in Manassas, Va. Chrysler going in first may actually help. The pub …
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Beijing’s Voices of Dissent
In the post-Tiananmen era, many Chinese protest leaders are out-of-town petitioners who travel to the capital to enlist the help of powerful officials to right personal wrongs. Shen Lixiu, 53, turned up in the Chinese capital to petition the central government over what she describes as a personal …
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