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Augusta National Woman’s Lament

WHAT A LOAD OF BALLS! Sharon Jacobsen When it comes to the US Masters, one thing’s certain – whoever dons the Green Jacket this year won’t be a woman! What

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Bureaucratic Buffet to Fix U.S. Intelligence

Another Commission Recommends Bureaucratic Buffet to Fix U.S. Intelligence April 4, 2005 Ivan Eland President Bush insists that he is already implementing recommendations from the officious smorgasbord of the presidential

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AUGUSTA : Treading Hallowed Turf

AUGUSTA NATIONAL turns into one of the world’s great sporting shrines every April. We all know about the quality of the golf, but the experience for the visitor is out

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Report: Iraq intelligence ‘dead wrong’

Bush says fundamental changes needed in spy agencies Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 12:43 PM EST (1743 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. intelligence community was “simply wrong” in its

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The Earth Can no longer sustain us

Human damage to Earth worsening fast-report Reuters AlertNet, UK By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent. OSLO, March 30 (Reuters) – Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and …

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Doctors give up on ill boy.

A nine-year-old boy in Fiji is awaiting death on his bed after doctors sent him home because nothing could be done for him about a growing tumour on his lower

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The US Oil Addiction

The Wall Street Journal, John J. Fialka and Jeffrey Ball, 28 Mar 2005 Bipartisan coalition presses Bush to get behind oil-use reduction Lambasting U.S. oil addiction: It’s not just for

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World Bank’s (E)Mission Creep

Critics question World Bank’s role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder By Daphne Wysham 25 Mar 2005 For as long as it’s been around, the World Bank has been prone to

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Restaurant Lingo

I thought it might be helpful to put down some definitions to words that we throw around constantly but might mean nothing to the lay-person. The Dictionary of Serving Weeds

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Why another Exxon Valdez could happen

Sixteen years ago this week, the Exxon Valdez oil spilled 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and horrified Alaska and the world. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is

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