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By JODI RUDOREN and KHALED ABU AKER
Published: June 19, 2012JERUSALEM - A West Bank mosque was burned and vandalized early on Tuesday, with graffiti warning in Hebrew of a “war” over the impending evacuation of the small, disputed Jewish settlement of Ulpana ( Read more... )

(lj'er's note: fascinating, strange and--for the conspiracy theorist in [all of] us--a little scary this look at how companies utilize the info they have on us via our paper trails ( Read more... )

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WATERLOO, Sierra Leone - The paramedic’s eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase in patients had been fivefold, or tenfold. The exhausted paramedic had lost count in a blur of uninterrupted examinations and deliveries ( Read more... )

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Note: In case you were wondering, I'm anti-gay marriage, but this is big news and not posting it won't make it any less true. Also, I apparently have a history of posting news articles related to homosexual marriage. I'd honestly forgotten.

N.Y. Gay Marriage Bill Gains Key VotesBy NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO ( Read more... )

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKCAIRO - The headline screamed from a venerable liberal newspaper: Coptic Christians had abducted a young Muslim and tattooed her with a cross. “Copts kidnap Raghada ( Read more... )

Pitcher Says No Thanks to Sure $12 Million

By TYLER KEPNER
Published: January 26, 2011The guaranteed contract is a fundamental principle of Major League Baseball, as much a part of the game as balls, strikes and outs. No matter how a player performs, or how his body holds up, he must be paid in full. Only in rare cases - an injury sustained off ( Read more... )

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