US Tax Rebate Optimism Dissolves Under Weight Of Bad News
The economic optimism induced this week as Americans began to receive $110 billion ($£55.8 billion) of tax rebates has been dashed by bad news about everything from house prices and consume...
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Camels Go On Rampage After They Get Hump Over Drought
Wild camels are invading remote communities in the Australian deserts, demolishing buildings in a desperate attempt to find water amid the country’s severe drought.......
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Playlist: Swinging To Beats In The Past And Present Tense
Reviews of new releases by Joshua Redman, Chu Berry, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Michel Camilo, Kartet and Jana Hunter....
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World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Mugabe Woos Votes With Raises And Tractors
President Robert G. Mugabe, campaigning to be re-elected, has suddenly found enough cash in his destitute nation’s treasury to raise the pay of all civil servants....
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Wake Up And Smell The Cordite – Now China Gives Bush Another Problem
Washington has been sent a blunt new year’s message from Beijing that America no longer has a monopoly on weapons in space, and must choose between negotiating a treaty with the rising Asian power and...
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