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Up north a sea to explore
The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations - particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when ...
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Minnesota vets unfairly targeted by benefit change
John Kriesel 's young son was hit in the face with a baseball two years ago, the disabled Iraq veteran and former Minnesota legislator brought his boy to the doctor and then in for an MRI scan to rule out a serious brain injury. Thanks to the Pentagon health insurance program for military retirees that Kriesel is currently enrolled in, his out-of-pocket expenses were about $20. But if the ...
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Americans your patriotic duty is to ask for a raise
The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier. Almost all those I spoke to had already slogged through many years of stagnant or declining hourly wages by the time the recession kicked in. ...
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Do more to get impaired drivers off U.S. roads
It is surprising how few drinks can impair a driver’s judgment. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that alcohol-impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious injuries each year. It is right to urge states to reduce that toll by lowering the allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 ...
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Letter of the Day Child-care union
Don't buy the spin coming from the Star Tribune Editorial Board ("DFL's day care overreach," May 16). Child-care providers across Minnesota want a union and have delivered 874 handwritten letters to their legislators in support of it. The idea that we are merely on a wish list for the union is demeaning to every provider who has fought so hard for this. The editorial writers ...
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The Sun Rises on Human Rights
TOKYO - As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making waves. Known for his aggressive efforts to revive Japan’s economy, his nationalist rhetoric and his openness to military strength, he is also pushing Japan toward a new assertiveness on human rights. Despite a vibrant democracy at home, the diplomats who guide Japan’s foreign policy ...
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Will Kenyas new president respect international court
At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ...
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What Did I Do Last Summer Oh I Discovered How To Make Babies Without Sex. And You
Ah, if only all summers could be like June, July and August 1740 -- when three young guys (and a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old) did a science experiment that startled the world. In those days, you could do biology without a fancy diploma. More people could play. That spring, the hot book -- the one everyone was reading -- was a gorgeously illustrated volume about insects by the French naturalist ...
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Pop Culture Happy Hour Cancellation Blues And Cultural Etiquette
network upfronts week , we talk in this episode about the cancellation of shows, including the ones that came and went that we honestly can hardly remember as well as the ones -- like ABC's delightful, ...
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Mali Prospects for Improved Human Rights
Whether it concerns training the Malian Army in the laws of war (an aspect included in the European Union's training program to be extended to four battalions of the Army), or the fight against corruption (which played a significant role in giving rise to the current crisis and deprives the country of resources required for respecting social rights), or the setting up of a "truth, ...
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Despite reforms Myanmars ethnic violence continues
-- When the European Union recently lifted economic sanctions on Myanmar, it closed a decades-long chapter designed to encourage democratic reform in the country. Although an arms embargo remains in place, the action will send an unequivocal message of "mission accomplished." But while the EU is celebrating the "new Myanmar," Rohingya Muslims in the western part of the ...
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Week In Politics IRS Benghazi Emails AP Phone Logs
. They discuss controversial IRS audits, the release of White House emails on Benghazi talking points and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone ...
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What others say Assault on core values
The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists' telephone records, leaving yet another set of federal boot prints on the First ...
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Unthinkable Putting the second world war to rest | Editorial
the turn of the Bevin Boys -- commemorated in a new memorial to their war years in the coalmines. What will it be next? Unlimited opportunities beckon for similar commemorations - many of them already doubtless well-advanced - through 2013, 2014 and in 2015. The 75th anniversaries kick in even before the 70ths have come to an end, to say nothing of those other commemorations that are already ...
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Multinationals and tax a bad smell | Editorial
Call it the smell test. When Google justifies paying minimal taxes in the UK because "no money changes hands" here, while admitting that up to 70% of its relevant ad revenues are handled by UK staff, then all may be legal - but something still doesn't smell right. When Amazon negotiates the deals in its Slough office, but gets the paperwork done in ...
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Nigeria states of emergency | Editorial
Nigeria , has made little secret of the fact that it regards itself not only at war with the Nigerian state, and its security forces, but its people too. It has bombed churches, mosques, carried out assassinations, kidnapping, and mass assaults. On a single day in January last year, it killed 185 people across Kano. As the years have gone by, the ferocity, ambition and scale of its attacks have ...
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The Recommender Cole Wilson Fast Companys Editorial Relations Genius--And Former Stand-In Videogame Actress
Titillating fact Cole had a very short stint as a video game producer. When actresses wouldn't show up for production, Cole would often have to sub for them. She spent many a day in a CGI bodysuit, acting as a range of characters including (but not limited to) a prostitute and a police ...
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Does the system need change
Are we running out of ideas? Many around the world fear that Indians have lost the capacity to think afresh, are increasingly losing sight of the big picture, and have no clue about how to turn things around by renovating the edifice of governance.In a competitive world, any opinion on a country's performance has to be relative. India may be doing reasonably well compared to its own ...
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Why corruption continues to be around despite the outcry against it
From speaking engagements to dinner with friends, one question continues to be asked: Why isn't corruption going away? The question baffles the educated middle classes. Why is a reasonable, universal and noble demand for an honest society so difficult to achieve in a democracy?The despair increased after the results of the Karnataka assembly elections. The Congress went to the polls right ...
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Sonam Kapoor says those wanting to be actors but not stars are lying
adore everything about stardom -- she confesses that she loves to be in the 'spotlight' despite the constant attention and hectic work hours -- but she can hardly speak for the entire fraternity of actors. Stars might be adored by millions of fans, but everyone doesn't appreciate being scrutinised every second of their lives or reading about their rumoured relationships and ...
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The voo-zoo our netas do
corruption scandals under UPA-II led birdwatchers to ponder vultures darkening our political skies. But it took the Supreme Court to observe the fluttering of another bird. Demanding explanations about ...
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How to Close Guantanamo
President Barack Obama finally broke his long silence on Tuesday on the need to close Guantanamo. Echoing comments he made four years ago -- when, on his second day in office he promised to close the facility within a year ...
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It’s Time for Burma’s President to Act
and several diplomats in Rangoon suggested that the central orders for the offensive did not come from the president's office, and some Western observers have told me in private conversations that a "rogue commander" was at work, out of the control of the president and commander-in-chief. Continued army operations were cast as "defensive actions," interpreted liberally ...
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Could The Presidents Week Get Any Worse
From scandals involving the IRS, to spirited Benghazi hearings, it's been a tough week for the Obama administration. But will this bad week really have further political fallout? Guest host Celeste Headlee checks in with the barbershop ...
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Florida has a chance to get mandatory youth sentencing right — next time
The Florida Legislature should not spend its time trying to craftily dodge a Supreme Court ruling. It should tackle this difficult issue directly and fairly. Next year, Florida has the chance to get it ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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