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| What Sunni voters want |
| The minority group is expected to turn out in force to try to secure more political sway. |
| Asian nations seek to chart new directions - without US |
| A summit in Kuala Lumpur brings together 16 Pacific nations to hammer out a 'shared vision for Asia.' |
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| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST Could tea help fight ovarian cancer? |
| Swedish researchers have found tantalizing but far from conclusive evidence that drinking a couple of cups of tea every day might help reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer. |
| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST Foreign policy goes private |
| It's a trend that features the likes of Bono, Bill Gates, former special forces commandos, and trial lawyers–and yet it may be the most important development in foreign-policy making you've never thought about: the rising influence of nonstate institutions, corporations, and advocacy groups. Across the range of issues on the Bush administration's international agenda–from defeating terrorism and delivering humanitarian aid to fighting disease and expanding democracy–private groups of one sort or another are becoming big-time players, and in doing so they are stripping away the near monopoly on power that governments once claimed for themselves. |
| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST Lessons learned from a start-up small business |
| James Archer runs a one-year-old interactive marketing firm, Forty Media, in Phoenix and writes one of the better small-business blogs around. In a recent post to Strange Brand, he tells readers what he has learned about running a small business during the past year. A few of his insights: |
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| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:24:52 EST Allegedly fake ballots seized in Iraq |
| With Iraqi parliamentary elections slated for Thursday and early voting already under way, a truck carrying what are believed to be fake ballots was detained near the Iraq-Iran border, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Meanwhile, Iraqis living around the world were voting early Tuesday. |
| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:38:30 EST Former President Ford, 92, hospitalized |
| Former president Gerald R. Ford has been admitted to Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, for tests, his top aide said Tuesday. Ford's chief of staff, Penny Circle would not say what kind of tests were being conducted, but said that Ford is as healthy as any 92-year-old. Ford became the 38th president after Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal. One of his first acts as president was to pardon Nixon -- a move that many say doomed his 1976 campaign |
| Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:31:29 EST Airlines grounded after Nigerian crash |
| Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has grounded Sosoliso Airlines in the wake of a weekend crash that killed 108 people, many of them Catholic secondary school students on their way home for the holidays, the president's office said Tuesday. |
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