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2009.
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Forget the hairdos and the funny suits. Kim Jong II is no madman. We don't have access to his shrink, of course, but there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that he's irrational.
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091465
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2009.
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It was late February 2003, a few weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and President George W. Bush's administration still lacked a real strategy for the would-be regional hegemon next door.
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091467
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2009.
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Sometimes fiction can do more to change public opinion than nonfiction. It took Uption Sinclair's 1906 novel, The jungle, to awaken the public to the dangers of sausage and the meat-packing industry in general.
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091469
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2009.
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Want to know what's going to happen with climate change? Is the world going to come together this Dcember at the Copenhagen summit or at some future date, and regulate away enough of the Greenhouse gases that are heating up the planet to warm Al Gore's heart?
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ID:
091468
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2009.
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It's not Twitter or facebook that's reinventing the planet. Eighty years after the first commercial broadcast crackled to life, television still rules our world. And let's hear it for the growing legions of couch potatoes: All those soap operas might be the ticket to a better future after all.
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ID:
091471
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2009.
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The only two Westerners living on their own in Kandar have been bombed, ambushed, and nearly sold to kidnappers.Here's what they've learned about the country where war just won't end.
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