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President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
(photo: AP / Ron Edmonds)
Obama Tells Haitian Leader That U.S. Aid Will Continue
The New York Times
| WASHINGTON — Even as the United States military withdraws the forces it sent urgently to Haiti after its devastating earthquake in January, President Obama on Wednesday pledged a lasting commitment to aid and assistance. Win McNamee/Getty Images | President Barack Obama with President Rene P...
In this image provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society anti-whaling protestors in an inflatable boat pursue the Japanese factory whaling ship Nisshin Maru as water cannon is used to blast the radical conservationists during the clash in frigid Antarctic waters Monday, Feb. 2,
(photo: AP / Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Josh Gunn, HO)
Australian Police Search Anti-Whaling Ships
The New York Times
| Filed at 2:31 a.m. ET | ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -- Australian police conducted searches Saturday on two anti-whaling vessels that recently clashed with Japanese ships in the Antarctic Ocean in an attempt to obstruct their annual catch, police and activists said. | Federal police with search warra...
Coalition for Responsible Transportation Commends the Port of New York and New Jersey for Dirty ...
redOrbit
Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 09:00 CST | Port's Clean Air Initiative Will Significantly Reduce Diesel Pollution and Improve Air Quality in the Port Region | NEWARK, N.J., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of The Coalition for Respon...
SS United States being marketed for scrap
Philadelphia Daily News
| By Sam Wood | Inquirer Staff Writer Once, it was the fastest and one of the most luxurious ocean liners in the world. | On its maiden voyage in 1952, the SS United States set a transatlantic speed record - New York to Bishop Rock, England, in three...
37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three
The Guardian
| In 1972, three men in a Louisiana prison were placed in solitary confinement after a prison guard was murdered. Two of them are still there – even though many believe they are innocent | Angola prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana, is the ...
Demand for Lithium Is Poised to Take Off
The New York Times
| For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/Bloomberg | An engineer for the Bolivian government’s pilot plant f...
 Voters trickle in at the Voting Centre in downtown Port-au-Prince, Faculte de Medicine, to cast their ballots in parliamentary elections, today in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. (mb1)
UN /Sophia Paris
Medicines running out in Haiti
Canoe
By Ben Fox, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | A man collects wood to build a shelter in the devastated downtown of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Hait...
GONAIVES, HAITI (Sept. 15, 2008) Hospital Corpsman Shane Leidig, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), carries a sack of rice during a humanitarian assistance mission in Haiti.
US Navy / Oscar Sosa
Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics
Chicago Sun-Times
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country's devastated hospitals -- as well ...
FSU's Ringling Museum of Art the state art museum. Florida State University libraries comprise one of the largest collections in the state of Florida. In total, Florida State has ten libraries and millions of books and journals to chose from.
Creative Commons / Sirberus
Museum and Gallery Listings
The New York Times
| ART | Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. | Museums | AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: 'THOMAS CHAMBERS (18...
Henri Salmide, 90, Dies; German's Defiance Saved a French Port
The New York Times
| PARIS — Henri Salmide, a former German naval officer who defied orders to blow up the French port of Bordeaux in 1944, died on Feb. 23. He was 90 and lived in Bordeaux. | His wife, Henriette, confirmed the death. | Born Heinz Stahlschmidt, Mr...
Carp Solution Could Provide Financial Benefits
The New York Times
| Proposals to block Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes have largely focused on the costs and inconvenience of closing off Chicago-area waterways into Lake Michigan. But now business and environmental groups are exploring a possible upside: a b...
Australian Police Search Anti-Whaling Ships
The New York Times
| Filed at 2:31 a.m. ET | ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -- Australian police conducted searches Saturday on two anti-whaling vessels that recently clashed with Japanese ships in the Antarctic Ocean in an attempt to obstruct their annual catch, police and ...
OPEC
Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, president of the OPEC conference and minister of petroleum from Angola
(photo: AP / Ronald Zak)
OPEC sees risk of overproduction
m&c
| Vienna - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) warned in a report released on Wednesday that its members might be pumping too much oil given the uncertain global economic outlook. | The cartel's latest monthly market report came one week before the next regular OPEC meeting in Vienna, where oil ministers are set to discuss ...
Cargo & Logistics
 Cathay Pacific Airways /aaeh
(photo: Public Domain)
Cathay Pacific returns to profit
Gulf News
| Hong Kong: Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong's biggest carrier, posted a second-half profit after paring capacity and selling a stake in a maintenance venture. | The HK$3.9 billion (Dh1.84 billion) profit compared with a loss of HK$7.9 billion a year earlier, based on annual results announced yesterday. | Sales fell 18 per cent to HK$36 billion. ...



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