All Stories from August 21, 2011 (Change date)
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Way of life falling victim to warming GreenlandAug 21, 2011 5:37 am - DISKO ISLAND, Greenland — The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people’s frozen lands. “The Inuit say that they are going to heat the `s...
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Post 9/11 golden decade ending for defense companiesAug 21, 2011 5:11 am - NEW YORK — The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, Osama bin Laden is dead, and the federal government is deeply in debt. This spells the end of what was a go...
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Travel becoming a beaucratic nightmare for some MuslimsAug 21, 2011 5:11 am - McLEAN, Va. — The calls have reached a point of repetitive regularity for civil rights lawyer Gadeir Abbas: A young Muslim American, somewhere in the world, is barred fr...
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Families of 9/11 victims mourn around the worldAug 21, 2011 5:11 am - In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the World ...
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Marmion ‘Crayons for Kids’ a successAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - On behalf of Marmion Academy’s Crayons for Kids School supply drive, we would like to thank the patrons of the local Jewel-Oscos for their participation in this year’s s...
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Boomers to spend billions fighting agingAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Baby boomers heading into what used to be called retirement age are providing a 70 million-member strong market for legions of companies, entrepreneurs and cosmetic surg...
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GOP puts party before countryAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - The myth that tax cuts benefiting the richest among us actually create jobs has been thoroughly disproved, and yet the Republican Party stubbornly clings to it. The Repu...
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Where’s the Syria plan?Aug 21, 2011 5:00 am - It’s hard to argue with President Obama’s call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it’s also hard to discern any logic or consistenc...
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Ample blame in debt crisis messAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Jesus said, “Of those to whom much has been given much shall be required.” Christian conservatives persist in telling us that this nation was founded upon Christian prin...
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Desire for control sends consumers to food co-opsAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - Cooperative grocery stores have been on a boom-then-bust cycle since they first emerged after the Great Depression. And the cycle at the moment is back to boom. As more ...