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This is the most concise and understandishable explanation I could relate to, as to why that agonizing bailout bill needed to pass ( Read more... )

Toward's the end of Barack Obama's speech during the DNC last month, we heard a BOOM echo through the valley. It was so loud that we went outside to see what we could see... About twenty minutes later local news reported that there was an explosion in the Larvin Unit at Bayer Crop Science, which is about twenty miles west of my house. People were ( Read more... )

Officials at the AQA board said their request that schools destroy the anthology containing the Carol Ann Duffy poem "Education for Leisure" had been triggered by concerns in two schools about references to knives. A spokeswoman confirmed the decision had been made in the context of the current spate of knife-related murders. Duffy, widely ( Read more... )