Friday, October 9, 2009

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Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama

By SIMON ROBINSON

Obama came into the White House with the press of expectations on his shoulders. The Nobel Peace Prize will add to that — and provide ammunition to his political foes on the right

Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green

By ROBERT CHEW

In Michigan, there's a movement to transform little-used heritage routes into a network of green highways that would cater to slow-moving, eco-minded travelers

Chávez to Iran: How About Some Uranium?

By TIM PADGETT

The Venezuelan President tweaks the U.S. with an offer to provide uranium to Tehran. Now, if only he could actually find the mineral in his jungles

Can Dave Letterman Survive the Scandal?

By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

Suddenly the joke's on Letterman. Can he survive better than the pols he's skewered?

Can Crocs Be More Than a One-Hit Wonder?

By TARA KELLY / LONDON

If the ubiquitous rubber clogs are to dodge the fate of past fad products, their maker will have to diversify

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Swampland

By Jay Newton-Small

A day after surviving a GOP-sponsored vote to take away his House Ways & Means gavel, Charlie Rangel was again in the news

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Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Moon

NASA has sent two probes on a collision course with the moon in hopes that the impact will reveal signs of water. That's right: water on the moon. A look at some more little-known facts about that pie in the sky

Quotes of the Day

"After six years of very hard work, we're worthless."
HASSAN SHAMA,
the head of the Sadr City District Council in Iraq, on the failure of local governing bodies in Iraq
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Indonesia's Islamic Schools: More Female Friendly

By Carla Power / Cirebon

While domestic suicide bombers and radicals have been traced to a few notorious schools, others have been incubators for a more benign trend in the world's most populous Muslim nation: the development of feminist readings of the Quran and Islamic traditions

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