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This paper discusses marijuana, crack/cocaine, tranquilizers, hallucinogens, amphetamines, heroin, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine to provide a framework for the author's argument that the legalization of drugs can in no way be deemed as ethical or moral.

Drug legalization has benefits.

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A unique feature of previous Ebola outbreaks has been the relative sparing of children. For the first time, an out break of an unusual illness-Ebola haemorrhagic fever occurred in Northern Uganda - Gulu district.

Ebola Epidemic breaks out in Zaire.

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The organizing committee said 65 countries have entered the Lillehammer Olympic Games, matching the number of nations at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

65 countries take part in the Lillehammer Olympic Games.

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Philip Morris cited strong volume gains in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, central and eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Brazil.

Philip Morris made market gains in Russia.

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More than 2,000 people lost their lives in the devastating Johnstown Flood.

100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.

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Unlike seal hunting in Canada, where pups are hunted for fur, poachers in China catch seals primarily to sell to zoos or to use the genital organs for traditional Chinese medicine.

Seal-hunting endangers species.

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In reaction to the ongoing uncertainty, the E.U. enlargement commissioner warned the Turkish Army about interfering: "It is important that the military leaves the remit of democracy to the democratically-elected government and this is the test case if the Turkish armed forces respect democratic secularism and the democratic arrangement of civil-military relations," commissioner Olli Rehn said. Erdogan and Gül support Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.

Turks want Gül to be President.

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McDonald's said overall global sales at its restaurants climbed 6.2% in June, 6.3% in the second quarter and 7.1% for the year to date.

McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant chain, led the advance after the company reported earnings that exceeded estimates.

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Scott's execution led to outrage in Ontario, and was largely responsible for prompting the Wolseley Expedition, which forced Louis Riel, now branded a murderer, to flee the settlement.

Scott's execution caused the Wolseley Expedition.

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Australia was one of the countries in the U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003.

The coalition is coordinated by the U.S

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Aeschylus is often called the father of Greek tragedy; he wrote the earliest complete plays which survive from ancient Greece. He is known to have written more than 90 plays, though only seven survive. The most famous of these are the trilogy known as Orestia. Also well-known are The Persians and Prometheus Bound.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

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El-Nashar was detained July 14 in Cairo after Britain notified Egyptian authorities that it suspected he may have had links to some of the attackers.

El-Nashar was arrested in Egypt.

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Moscow (USSR), 12 Jul 89 (PRAVDA)- Blood is flowing in Columbia, where last year, according to official statistics, there were 4,600 victims of political violence, including Jaime Pardo Leal (president of Colombia's national coordination committee), around 30 deputies and many municipal advisors and mayors.

Jaime Pardo Leal was killed in Moscow.

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Domestic fire incidents have an important impact on population health by contributing to early death, serious and often disfiguring injuries, and ongoing disability. Fire-related injury is a leading cause of unintentional injury in the home in all age groups.

Domestic fires are a major cause of unintentional injury in the home.

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Catastrophic floods in Europe endanger lives and cause human tragedy as well as heavy economic losses.

Flooding in Europe causes major economic losses.

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Four US cable companies, including industry leaders Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable, have entered the fast-growing wireless arena through a joint venture with Sprint Nextel.

Time Warner Cable is a partner of Sprint Nextel.

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Experts say that Mr. Abbas will need that big win to show that he has the support of most Palestinian people in order to push through his aims of peace talks with Israel.

Analysts had said that Mr. Abbas needed a large margin of victory in order to push his agenda of peace talks with Israel.

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At the southeastern tip of the city, Xochimilco, another small town subsumed by the city, is a popular tourist destination because of its chinampas, or "floating gardens," boats made out of reeds on which the Indians have grown plants since pre-Columbian times.

Xochimilco is a popular tourist attraction because of its chinampas, or floating gardens.

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In all, Zerich bought $422 million worth of oil from Iraq, according to the Volcker committee. In the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, Rich quickly became the most powerful trader there.

Zerich bought oil from Iraq during the embargo.

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Of all the national park lands in the United States, none is closer to a major urban area or more beset with problems than the Everglades, a shallow, 50-mile-wide river of grass that flows south from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. For more than a generation, this fragile natural wonder has been held hostage by a web of special interests -- farmers, sportsmen and about 6 million South Florida residents in need of drinking water and flood control -- that is as complex as the ecosystem itself.

The Everglades is 50-mile wide.

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Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, and Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawar, visited the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

Ghazi al-Yawar is Iraq's new president.

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Typhoon Xangsane was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday as it moved inland from the central Vietnam coast, where it killed two people, injured at least 80 others and damaged hundreds of homes, officials and state-controlled media reported.

A typhoon batters the Philippines.

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An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.

Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.

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Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's two most powerful auction houses, swapped confidential lists of super-rich clients who were spared from paying fees charged to other sellers, people close to the companies and to a federal antitrust investigation of them said.

Christie's is one of the world's largest auction houses.

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James Kerr had been the foreman for the Deane, Adams and Deane gun factory. Robert Adams, one of the partners and inventor of the Adams revolver, was Kerr's cousin.

Dean invented a revolver.

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Both sides have a point. German spelling does need overhauling: over the decades, it has grown more unwieldy. But the reform, approved by German-speaking countries in 1996, does not make the rules much easier, and in some cases the new way is harder.

A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.

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According to members of Brazilian Court, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be subjected to an impeachment process, if there is some proof that he is really involved in some of the alleged scandals, or in case someone can prove that he was acting with negligence.

The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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ECB spokeswoman, Regina Schueller, declined to comment on a report in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that the ECB council will discuss Mr. Fazio's role in the takeover fight at its Sept. 15 meeting.

Regina Shueller works for Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.

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The evidence for the continuing accretion of gas by the Milky Way involves high-velocity clouds, or HVCs--mysterious clumps of hydrogen, moving rapidly through the outer regions of the galaxy.

High-velocity clouds are made up of hydrogen.

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On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.

A bomb exploded outside a mosque.

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The ghost shirt was then donated to the Glasgow Museum in 1892 by an Indian interpreter and has remained a visitor attraction for 100 years. It became the subject of an ownership wrangle when descendants of the Sioux tribe petitioned for its return in 1995. The Wounded Knee Survivors Association including a Lakota elder had it returned to the tribe.

A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum.

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Yemen, too, was reunified in 1990.

Yemen was reunited in 1990.

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Five U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded Friday in an ambush near the Shiite neighborhood Sadr City.

Five US soldiers were killed and five wounded on Friday in an ambush near the Shi'ite neighbourhood Sadr City.

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Drug development is an enormously complex and expensive process.

The Research and Development phase of creating a new drug is complicated.

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The M-2000 uses a commercially manufactured NbTi superconductor, similar to that used in the M-2000 Maglev magnets.

Maglev is commercially used.

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Concerns have been raised that potential leads in the hunt for missing York woman Claudia Lawrence are not being followed up quickly enough. It comes after hotel staff in Malton contacted police after a stranger in the bar expressed satisfaction when asked if the chef was still missing. The incident happened more than three weeks ago and staff said detectives had not yet been in touch. Police said leads were being assessed in a methodical and structured way.

Claudia Lawrence resides in Malton.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a liberal thinker whose left-wing politics angered many conservative politicians and heads of state. His job as a reporter for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, in 1960, and and friendship with Fidel Castro resulted in his being ultimately denied entry to the United States for political reasons.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a conservative politician.

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He said a new study might include more than just Cox 2 drugs possibly adding such widely used painkillers as Ibuprofen naproxen and diclofenac.

Cox 2 inhibitors are pain relief drugs.

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Argentina was still obsessed with the Falkland islands even in 1994, 12 years after its defeat in the 74-day war with Britain.

The Falklands War took place in 1982.

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Up to 150 workers were believed to have been inside the factory, which produces syringes and other plastic medical supplies, at the time of the explosion.

Workers were inside the plant at the time of the explosion.

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Saudi Arabia's production mix will shift to a higher proportion of lighter crudes. Unlike last year's Qatif and Abu Safah developments, nearly all of the proposed projects produce Arab Light or lighter crudes.

Saudi Arabia produces more oil than any other country.

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We are committed to the deployment of these technologies and are excited by the advances in remote sensing technology that are enabling us to extract more information from sensors in a cost-efficient and timely manner.

Ocean remote sensing is developed.

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United States President Barack Obama unveiled his administration's 2010 United States federal budget on Thursday. The budget calls for a record US$3.6 trillion in spending.The new budget will use a $1.75 trillion deficit, which would be nearly four times greater than any previous deficit and is $250 billion larger than what was projected just days ago due to a proposed new spending for another bank bailout.

Barak Obama planned US$3.6 trillion in spending.

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The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.

The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.

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Family members and friends told Fox News that the couple had been fighting over several things, including Luong's girlfriend, on Sunday evening and Monday morning. Luong later drove off with his four children, whom he reported missing to the police and claimed he had left them with his girlfriend who lives in a hotel. Police however became suspicious due to "holes in his story" and he later changed his story. The Associated Press say that the authorities believe that Dauphin Island Bridge is where Luong threw the four children, of which he was the biological father of three, into the water.

Luong threw his children off a bridge in Louisiana.

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Madrid: Luis Roldan, the former Spanish chief of police who fled the country 10 months ago after allegedly hiving off millions of pounds from secret government funds, was on his way home to a prison cell last night after being captured in Bangkok.

Luis Roldan was director of police from 1986 to 1993.

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David Millar retained his Tour de France leader's yellow jersey despite crashing in the final two kilometres of the third stage of the race to Nantes.

Tour de France winner is likely to lose the crown.

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In 2000 there were 10,578 divorces in Bulgaria, which represents 301 divorces per 1000 marriages or a 1.3% divorce rate per 1000 inhabitants.

In 2000 there were 301 divorces in Bulgaria.

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"Having for years enjoyed greater rights than other women in the Middle East, women in Iraq are now losing even their basic freedoms. The right to choose their clothes, the right to love or marry whom they want. Of course women suffered under Saddam. I fled his cruel regime. I personally witnessed much brutality, but the subjugation of women was never a goal of the Baath party."

Women in Iraq have lost their freedom.

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The VW chief has been under intense pressure from the Bonn government and colleagues in German industry to seek conciliation following his outspoken statements last, which were widely seen as damaging Germany's reputation.

Germany is concerned about the effect of the court investigations on domestic economic and political affairs.

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To avoid further price-gouging, Norway's Ministry of Government Administration announced that it was freezing prices on lodging, food and beverages in the Lillehammer area during the Winter Olympics.

Norway hosted the Winter Olympic Games.

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One reason for increased osteoporosis in developed countries is the sodium-potassium imbalance.

Dietary intake of potassium prevents osteoporosis.

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"On Feb. 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement issued to Aspen Daily News. The death was confirmed by Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis. Hunter S. Thompson was best known for his 1972 book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". He was recently married and had emotionally supported his friend John Kerry's candidacy.

John Kerry was friends with Hunter S. Thompson.

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Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.

Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds.

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For others, in the northern hemisphere, judgment may be a little off due to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is often at its peak in the weeks following the shortest hours of daylight.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.

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Mr Piech dismissed suggestions that VWs actions in hiring away Mr Lopez and his seven colleagues from GM had caused widespread dismay in German industry, and was at odds with the style of German business.

Piech got nationalistic in his accusations.

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Last week's release of long-secret Justice Department interrogation memorandums has given rise to starkly opposing narratives about what, if anything, was gained by the C.I.A.'s use of waterboarding, wall-slamming and other physical pressure to shock and intimidate Qaeda operatives. Senior Bush administration officials, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and cheered by many Congressional Republicans, are fighting a rear-guard action in defense of their record. Only by using the harshest methods, they insist, did the intelligence agency get the information it needed to round up Qaeda killers and save thousands of American lives.

Dick Cheney was the chief of the Justice Department.

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"The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but it seems to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands," Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village in the Middle Andaman Island told Reuters by phone.

Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village is part of the Middle Andaman Island.

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Tilda Swinton has a prominent role as the White Witch in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", coming out in December.

Tilda Swinton plays the part of the White Witch.

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The order is worth EUR 58 million and handover of the submarines to the Portuguese navy is scheduled for 2010. The contract also includes an option for the same equipment to be built into a third submarine.

The Portuguese Navy has 58 submarines.

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There is no way Marlowe could legally leave Italy, especially after an arrest warrant has been issued for him by the authorities. Assisted by Zaleshoff, he succeeds in making his escape from Milan.

Marlowe was arrested by Italian authorities.

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The demands on Italy's 53rd postwar government are apparent, as are the resentment and uncertainties Berlusconi has roused at the head of a new party with the catchy name Forza Italia (Go, Italy).

Silvio Berlusconi is in Forza Italia.

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According to the captain, the 1999 ferry was inspected by the Transport Ministry on December 9 and was certified to be in good condition. "It seems that due to the weather conditions the chance is little, but we still hope," Djamal stated. With 17 crew members, and carrying 200 tons of cargo, the ill-fated PT Nur Budi owned and operated ferry sank so fast that the crew "had no chance to ask the passengers to wear life jackets."

An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank.

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The Security Council voted in 2002 to protect U.S. soldiers and personnel from other nations that haven't ratified the creation of the court through a treaty, and last June renewed the immunity for a year.

Immunity for soldiers renewed.

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Heemeyer cut portholes for his guns, then welded a tight enclosure around them so police bullets could not penetrate.

Out of an old bulldozer, Heemeyer built a concrete box that no police bullet could penetrate.

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Witnesses told police a gas canister exploded to start the fire in a multilevel building which houses the Ycua Bolanos supermarket, a food court and a parking garage, causing the bottom floor to collapse.

Television footage showed several levels of the multi-level supermarket covered in soot, including the lower level parking garage.

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World Bank programs have been heavily criticized for many years for resulting in poverty.

The World Bank is criticized for its activities.

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To promote The Simpsons Movie that will be released July 26, 2007, over a dozen 7-Elevens in the United States have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, the grocery store from the popular TV series. Most of the other 7-Eleven stores will also sell products with brands reminding of The Simpsons, such as Buzz Cola, Krustyo's cereal, squishees, and Bart Simpson's favourite comic book Radioactive Man, but not Duff Beer, Homer's favourite drink.

The Simpsons is a show broadcast in America.

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In 1983, McClintock found that bacteria have rings of DNA (plasmids) that reproduce and have genetic changes that tell the bacteria how to defend itself against the antibiotics.

Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.

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According to NC Articles of Organization, the members of LLC company are H. Nelson Beavers, III, H. Chester Beavers and Jennie Beavers Stewart.

Jennie Beavers Stewart is a share-holder of Carolina Analytical Laboratory.

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In Russia, BAT is setting up a joint venture with Yava, Moscow's largest cigarette factory.

BAT acquired production interests in the Ukraine, Hungary and Russia.

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Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr.

John W. Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan in the chest.

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(CBS/ AP) Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. A Superior Court jury returned the verdict after an estimated 29 to 30 hours of deliberations. The jury had the option of choosing involuntary manslaughter, but did not do so. Spector had no obvious reaction. His attorney argued that he should remain free on bail pending the May 29 sentencing but Judge Larry Paul Fidler accepted the prosecution's argument that he be remanded to jail immediately.

Lana Clarkson and Phil Spector were engaged.

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Rich and poor nations struck a historic deal on Sunday to slash billions of dollars in farm subsidies, create more open industrial markets and revive stalled world trade talks that could boost global growth.

Rich and poor nations crashed into a historic deal on Sunday.

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A journalist for the French Daily Libération, Christophe Boltanski, was attacked on Friday by several men in a street of Tunis, where he was reporting on the repression of human rights activists. He was badly beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by four unidentified assailants near his hotel in the embassy district. Boltanski was also hit in the face by pepper spray. He called for help, but the policemen on guard outside the nearby Czech Embassy did not react, according to Libération.

A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.

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Humic acids are complex organic molecules formed by the breakdown of organic matter in the soil. They are not considered to be fertilizers, but soil enhancers and improvers.

Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.

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Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a maker of high-speed networking systems, which he later sold to Cisco Systems.

Bechtolsheim was the owner of Cisco Systems.

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Sharon sent dismissal letters to Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman, who oppose his withdrawal plan, on Friday.

On Friday,Sharon fired Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman.

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Investigators described the gunman as white, about 30 years old, of medium build with shoulder-length, wavy blond hair and as having a "scruffy" or "grunge" appearance.

The gunman is described as a white male in his 30s with a medium build, shoulder-length blonde hair and an unkempt appearance.

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Castro's successful visits to Harlem and the Bronx, his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the October 21 march of 3,000 against U.S. policy and subsequent picket lines at Cuba's UN mission in defense of the revolution - all these events dealt blows to the U.S. government's unceasing efforts to isolate and slander Cuba.

Castro visits the UN.

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A Pentagon committee and the congressionally chartered Iraq Study Group have been preparing reports for Bush, and Iran has asked the presidents of Iraq and Syria to meet in Tehran.

Bush will meet the presidents of Iraq and Syria in Tehran.

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Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced that Pope John Paul was still in serious condition, but he was not in a coma.

Joaquin Navarro-Valls is the Vatican Spokesman.

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Crude oil for April delivery traded at $37.80 a barrel, down 28 cents

Crude oil prices rose to $37.80 per barrel

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Boise and OfficeMax customers will have the opportunity to get involved with the Belief in Hope campaign in a variety of ways.

Boise to acquire OfficeMax.

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BTA said those injured in the fire at Borovets, 22 miles southeast of Sofia, were from Britain, the Soviet Union, West Germany, the Netherlands, Greece and Denmark.

Sofia is located in Britain.

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The new moon, which is only about 25 miles in diameter, was actually photographed 13 years ago by the Voyager 2.

The moon Titan has a diameter of 5100 kilometers.

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Claes denied categorically that they had ever known of the existence of an Agusta proposal, and told the NATO ambassadors that he did not know anything about an Agusta payment to the Socialist Party.

NATO Secretary General Willy Claes resigned.

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The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq’s interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.

Transfer of power in Iraq on June 30.

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The weapon Inspectors have had since 1991 to peacefully disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

Weapons inspectors will go back to Iraq.

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The ivory ban has been successful. Demand for ivory has dropped and elephant populations expanded dramatically in areas where they were virtually extinct.

The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.

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The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq's interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.

The U.S. chose Paul Bremer as new governor of Iraq.

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"The Black Panther", or "The Black Pearl", as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.

The best scorer at the World Championship in 1966 was "The Black Pearl."

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Kohl participated in the late stage of WWII as a teenage soldier. He joined the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) in 1947.

The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.

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September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.

Andreotti is accused of Mafia collusion.

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This coalition took seven months to form, the longest deadlock in Dutch history. It occurred only after negotiations between the CDA and the PvdA failed, first over tax issues, then over the issue of abortion.

Three parties form a Dutch coalition government.

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A recent study offers sound medical proof that ACE inhibitors, like beta-blockers and aspirin, can improve a patient's odds of surviving a heart attack.

People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.

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Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were "playing out of their socks", but admitted that they were "racing against time" to track down the bombers.

The officers belong to Sir Ian Blair's family.

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The magnitude 7 earthquake that occurred today on the Hayward fault (a part of the San Andreas fault system, along the densely populated eastern side of San Francisco bay) caused hundreds of deaths and almost $100 billion of damage.

There was a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault.

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Fiona North, Ophthalmic Adviser with the SHSSB added: Eye injuries caused by fireworks are extremely serious and can permanently damage eyesight. I would urge those who are co-ordinating efficient firework displays to use appropriate eye protection.

Fireworks may cause serious injuries.

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Kerry hit Bush hard on his conduct on the war in Iraq.

Kerry shot Bush.

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