World simmers in hottest year so far
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world is enduring the hottest year on record, according to a U.S. national weather analysis, causing droughts worldwide and a concern for U.S. farmers counting on another bumper year. For the first six months of the year, 2010 has been warmer than the first half of 1998, the previous record holder, by 0.03 degree Fahrenheit, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the federal National Climatic Data Center. Period of a El Nino weather pattern is being blamed for the hot temperatures globally. "We had an El Nino episode in the early part of the...
Published on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 05:59:38 AM
Our Year 2 A.B.
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For any of those who went into a coma around January of last year and just woke up, let me explain this new era after Bush (A.B.), variously known as “this is our moment,” “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” and the era when the “planet healed” and the seas “receded.” In sum, in the year 2 AB, your fossilized world thankfully no longer quite exists. Global warming is “climate change” and its data is “interpreted” rather than blindly “followed.” Natural calamities like the old Katrina hurricane were really man-caused disasters; and man-caused disasters like the new BP...
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500,000 hospital patients sent home too soon every year (UK)
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(and 1,500 a day readmitted for emergency care) More than 500,000 patients every year are readmitted to hospital after apparently being sent home too soon, alarming figures reveal. Labour's waiting-time targets have been blamed for the 50 per cent rise in emergency readmissions of patients within days of them being discharged. Critics said it was a scandal that almost 1,500 a day were apparently being released before they are well enough, harming their recovery.
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Graphic: Obama's First Year Report Card
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Today is the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Obama. Creative Minority Report has obtained the first year report card. Click Here To See Graphic
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Newspaper names homosexual marriage advocate Vermonter of the Year
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Vt newspaper names homo advocate Vermonter of the Year
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New Year's celebrations around the world
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WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world AUSTRALIA_NEW_YEAR Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. The annual fireworks extravaganza over the city's landmark harbor bridge and opera house are the centerpiece of Australia's celebrations. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) New_Year_AUSTRALIA Fireworks flash over Sydney Harbor during New Year celebrations, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. The annual fireworks extravaganza over the city's landmark harbor bridge and opera house are the centerpiece of Australia's celebrations. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) JAPAN_NEW_YEAR People set balloons free to celebrate the New Year at Zojoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, early...
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Treasuries set for worst year since 1978 as U.S. steps up sales
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Treasuries headed for the worst year in at least three decades as the U.S. stepped up debt sales to help spur growth in an economy recovering from the biggest slump since the Great Depression. The existing seven-year note was little changed after a $32 billion of sale of the debt drew a yield of 3.345 percent, compared with an average forecast of 3.372 percent in a Bloomberg News survey of four of the Federal Reserve’s 18 primary dealers. U.S. government securities have fallen 3.6 percent this year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes, the worst performance since 1978.
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AP:Big First Year Leaves Obama Tired
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Washington (AP) - After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired. Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency -- the early decisions to bail out the nation's banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops...
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Obama Ends Year Tired, Sober
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President Barack Obama is ending the year tired - and who could blame him? AP correspondent Julie Pace reports on the multitude of issues that have left the president looking forward to his vacation. (Dec. 29)
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