Sunday, August 30, 2009

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Amid the Nation's Fallen, Kennedy Is Laid to Rest

By DAVID VON DREHLE

On a hot, thick night in the nation's capital, a nation's mourning reaches its culimation

The Next Step for Microfinance: Taking Deposits

By BARBARA KIVIAT

The poor don't just need loans, they also need safe places to save. The Gates Foundation and others are funding a new push to bring banking services to far flung corners of the developing world

U.S.-Colombia Pact Causes Stir Among Lat-Am Neighbors

By TIM PADGETT

Hugo Chavez isn't the only Latin American leader unhappy about the military agreement between the two nations

Four Years Later, New Orleans' Green Makeover

By BRYAN WALSH

After Hurricane Katrina flattened New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, the city emerged as an inadvertent symbol of global warming, the first American victim of climate change

Cash for Clunkers: The Bribery Stimulus

By NANCY GIBBS

What does the wild popularity of Cash for Clunkers tell us about how to solve our other problems?

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By Karen Tumulty

Mike Huckabee told his radio audience today that under the Obama health plan, Ted Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" upon being diagnosed with a brain tumor

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Sana'a

Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death?

By Andrew Lee Butters

Never mind the social effects of an entire nation addled by the narcotic leaf khat, growing the plant could leave the country short of drinking water

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