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Utah mans new running shoe could be golden
The running shoe is all wrong for the human foot, so Orem's Golden Harper came up with a solution — a radically different shoe called Altra that is expected to do $20 million in sales this year and challenge the big brand names in the ...
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Op-Ed Contributor In Iran Hints of Hope and Change
Iranians went to the polls on Friday in what turned out to be ...
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Making Arizona voting fairer
Arizona argued that the law was needed to prevent voter fraud by immigrants who don't qualify to vote. and that it was not pre-empted by federal rules because it was consistent with Congress' intent of protecting the integrity of elections. Such arguments are unpersuasive. As the U.S. ...
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Op-Ed Contributor The Art of Garden Warfare
My new raised-bed vegetable garden ...
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GOODLATTE No command and control for the cows
View results The House is expected to consider this week the reauthorization of the farm bill, a multiyear plan for the future of American farming. While much of the media coverage of the debate in the Senate centered on nutrition programs, an important battle is brewing in the House regarding dairy policy.As the House Agriculture Committee debated dairy policy, Chairman Frank D. Lucas, Oklahoma ...
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Iran elects a good cop who isnt good at all
View results As soon as the results of the Iranian elections were announced, the world’s media proclaimed that a ';moderate and reformist'; cleric, Hasan Rowhani, would become the new president of Iran.Not so. Mr. Rowhani is every bit as brutal and deceitful as the clerical regime that has murderously cracked down on its people for decades.For 33 years, the mullahs who dominate ...
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GAFFNEY Doing something about space weather
View results A wit once observed a persistent truth: ';Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.'; That has been especially the case with respect to ';space weather'; - a phenomenon associated with intense solar activity, known by scientists as coronal mass ejections and popularly as solar flares. If oriented in the wrong direction, one of these ...
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Moving a Washington scandal out of town
View results It’s amazing that there are those - including The New York Times - that continue to prop up the flawed finger-pointing of the Internal Revenue Service, blaming a couple of rogue agents out of its Cincinnati office for the unlawful targeting of conservative groups.The New York Times - along with the IRS - is simply wrong in their assertion that this scandal is based in, and ...
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The social cost of breathing
View results The key to success in business is making products that beat the competition. Government just makes rules, and drives up costs for competitors. Despite President Obama’s happy talk about the nation having achieved the highest proportion of domestic oil and gas production in 20 years, his administration is tipping the scale further in favor of fringe energy sources over ...
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YOUNG The risk of overplaying scandal
View results Americans are hard to lead politically, but they will follow reason. That is a lesson the country has repeatedly taught those aspiring to lead it. It is now one that Republicans should take to heart as they address the Obama administration’s sudden onslaught of scandals.Early in its second term, the Obama White House risks going from being seemingly garbed in Teflon to wearing ...
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Editorial Welfare reform redux
We’ve urged the state Senate to pick up the pace on welfare reforms and happily they’ve obliged. A bill released by Senate leaders at midday yesterday is set for a full debate Thursday. As promised, the Senate is taking a broad approach; call it "Welfare Reform II," after the 1995 crackdown that introduced a stronger work requirement for recipients of public assistance.The ...
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Kyrgyzstan Violence vs Justice
The chaotic scenes at the trial of a man charged over inter-ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan are damaging the legal process, reports Mihra Rittmann. Even in the basement of the courthouse, safe behind a closed door, I’m sure the defendant could still hear the women screaming at him. I certainly could hear the women, standing just metres away, and I definitely felt their violent rage as one ...
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Colleges the next burst bubble
abundant subsidized finance from the Federal government is keeping the system going. As a banker-journalist of 40 years' experience, I can tell you: higher education looks like a bubble about to burst. Countless studies have shown there to be around a 50% salary premium for obtaining a four-year bachelor's degree, compared with high-school graduates. On that comparison rests the ...
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Gore and fatwas show Syrias descent
the Gulf, gathered in Cairo to study plans to call for an international appeal for jihad in Syria. On June 4, Al-Arabiya, a Saudi-financed television channel that is usually liberal, hosted conservative leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, who is based in Doha, Qatar, to urge support for jihad against Hezbollah forces who are fighting alongside Assad's forces in Syria. The spike in religious ...
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Washington split on Rouhani victory in Iran
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - The surprise victory of Hassan Rouhani in Iran's June 14 election has provoked a range of reactions here, ranging from cautious optimism about possible detente between Tehran and Washington to outright rejection of the notion that his presidency will produce any substantive change in policy, foreign or domestic. While most Iran specialists fall into the former ...
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Intra-Asian security ties good for US
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Deepening security ties between East Asian nations offer substantial benefits to the United States as it "rebalances" its military forces towards the Asia-Pacific region, so long as the move is not perceived as a US-led effort to contain China, according to a new report by a think tank close to the administration of President Barack Obama. The report, ...
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Iran flexes muscle with Taliban meeting
By Mina Habib Analysts say a recent visit to Tehran by a Taliban delegation is a clear indication of Iran's intention to boost its influence in Afghanistan following next year's pull-out of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. The Taliban were keen to portray the meeting, which involved a delegation attending an Islamic conference, as a parallel government engaging in ...
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My view Nothing sinister about Common Core
In an effort to improve our nation's education system and make students better prepared for college and careers, a new set of standards is now sweeping across classrooms throughout the United States. It's an approach call the Common Core and it has been heavily discussed at the Education Nation ...
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What others say It shouldnt take a law
The following editorial appeared recently in the San Jose Mercury News: Silicon Valley has a problem. The furor over the Obama administration's use of technology to track possible terrorists has cast a spotlight on the private information Valley companies collect. The question is: Is government's disclosure of its use of data for national security more important than companies' ...
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Iran New face old agenda
OK, so the newly elected president of Iran isn’t a hate-spewing, Holocaust denying whack-job like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.And sure, that’s a good thing. It speaks to the good sense of the people of Iran who, no doubt, would like their leader not to be a source of international embarrassment. It also is encouraging that Hasan Rowhani, the only cleric in the presidential race, spent much ...
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UC and Native Americans Unsettled remains
In 1990 Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Action, which required museums and universities to repatriate human remains to recognized tribes. Repatriation is slow and incomplete. Above: Ishi, who was the last survivor of the Yahi tribe in California, emerged into culture in ...
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Snowden a fool not a spy
And that's certainly a possibility. His decision to flee to Hong Kong - a Chinese vassal - was an odd one, given that China is hardly a bulwark of transparency and civil rights. It's a bit like complaining that Boston is too Catholic and then moving to Vatican City in protest. Then there's the nature of the crime itself. Informed sources I've spoken with are generally aghast ...
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A test of wills in Iran
But the sheer scale of Rowhani's victory (capturing nearly 51% of the vote over four other candidates, with an official turnout of 72%) suggests a more compelling explanation than the one describing him merely as the least bad option. To better understand the meaning of Rowhani's victory, we must take heed of the shadow of the disputed 2009 presidential election - in which charges of ...
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Letter Listening in in Another Era
To the Editor: Phones were constantly ...
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Letter E-Cigarettes and Children
To the Editor: ...
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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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