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Tejon Ranch pact would allow 26,000 homes on the range

Real Estate – The agreement ends years of debate over the fate of an untrammeled tableau of mountains, wildflower fields, twisted oaks and Joshua trees in the historic Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

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Cuba's two-currency system adds up to a social divide

News – Cuba uses the dominant convertible peso known as the CUC -- introduced four years ago to replace the U.S. dollar, which had been circulating for more than a decade -- and the Cuban peso known as moneda nacional.

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Beyond Borders uses democracy to drive development

Do No Evil – As an international aid agency working in Haiti, Beyond Borders realized that for development to be successful it needed a model that wasn't based on command-and-control methods.

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McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power

Politics – According to John McCain, then, executive power in the U.S. now is exactly what it should be, perfectly in line with what the Founders envisioned -- except that it is too constrained by a judiciary which "shows little regard for the authority of the president."

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Burma -- Keeping the foreigners out

News – Only two UN flights have so far been allowed to land in Rangoon, but they are not the main problem for Burma's paranoid junta. It is the army of foreign aid workers who come in with them. The military regime can not reconcile the crying need for a massive international aid programme with the openness needed to direct it.

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Torture Showdown Coming?

Politics – Some of the leading architects of the Bush administration's torture policies have agreed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. But anyone hoping for an accountability moment may be in for disappointment.

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McCain's Christocrat

Politics – In his campaign for president of the United States, Senator McCain has not only courted Pastor Parsley and called him a "truly great leader of America", a "moral compass" and a "spiritual guide" but has actually said that he is "honoured" to be in the pastor's company.

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Tied in knots

News – But then Jenna grew up. She graduated from the University of Texas and took a job as a teacher in Washington, DC public schools. She travelled in Latin America as a Unicef volunteer and wrote a book about a young woman with Aids.

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What Makes the Average German Tick?

News – What do Germans earn? How much do they drink? How loyal are they? How often do they lie? What do they believe in? What are they afraid of? How often do they have sex? How do they die? A new SPIEGEL report gives a unique picture of the average German and how they think, live and love.

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Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist

Science – At a microcellular level, the infinitely complex network of nerve cells that make up the constituent parts of the brain actually change in response to certain experiences and stimuli. The brain, in other words, is malleable - not just in early childhood but right up to early adulthood, and, in certain instances, beyond.

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Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

Women – We, the women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

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1968 -- A year of creeping terror

Do No Evil – In the media and in the minds of millions of young people, political radicalism was linked to the counterculture, an amorphous entity that stretched from (and often failed to distinguish between) fashion options, tastes in music, and transformations in consciousness.

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Politicizing Gitmo: A Timeline

Politics – Even beyond the judge's conclusion, the ruling is a remarkable document because it involves a blow-by-blow account of the politicization of the process

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Somalia - Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda

News – Likewise, the BBC takes for granted that the US is the world's policeman; no need to mention it by name. The action of bombing an impoverished Third World country already indicates the agent. This also helps explain why no mention was made of the illegality of this act of aggression.

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Roots of Haiti's food crisis run deep

Food – Subsidized U.S. rice began flooding in 30 years ago, so cheap that Haitians began eating it instead of the corn, sweet potatoes, cassava and domestic rice that had sprouted from plains and mountainsides from the colonial era to the late 1980s.

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