Mar 07, 2010 -
His mother used to be a model; from her, Robert Thomas Pattinson inherited his good looks and a passion for acting. Pattinson was born in May 1986 in London, and his father is a car salesman. But it was his mother who encouraged him to become an actor and helped him land his first big role at age 15—when he became the good-looking Cedric Diggory in one of the famous Harry Potter films.
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Feb 26, 2010 -
Get Important Information! Basics, Prevention, and Concerns of HIV and AIDS. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation).
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Feb 26, 2010 -
Get Important Information! Basics, Prevention, and Concerns of HIV and AIDS. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation).
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Feb 24, 2010 -
The three-story, brick townhouse at 133 C Street S.E. sits a half-block from the Cannon House Office Building, roughly three blocks from the Capitol — the home-away-from-home for a regular contingent of fundamentalist Christian members of Congress, who can pray in the living room and walk to work.
The C Street Center, which owns the 1880-vintage townhouse, claims status as a church.
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Feb 08, 2010 -
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month.
Canada's finance minister announced at a summit in Iqaluit, northern Canada, that Group of Seven countries planned to cancel Haiti's bilateral debts.
Jim Flaherty said he would encourage international lenders to do the same.
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Jan 11, 2010 -
Six for Six
By Aaron Goldstein on 1.11.10 @ 6:06AM
I know we are in the first month of 2010 and should be inclined to look forward rather than backward. Yet I think it's only fair to look back President Obama's past year in office and revisit some of the dumber things he did.
Now one must realize that the challenge here hasn't been to come up with six stupidest things Obama has done.
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Dec 24, 2009 -
By KIRK SEMPLE
Published: December 22, 2009
The chief judge of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 9-year-old boy at the center of an international abduction and custody fight must be returned to the United States with his American father, according to the court’s Web site.
Silvia Izquierdo/Associated Press
David Goldman, of New Jersey, who has pursued a five-year court battle to gain custody of his son, in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
The ruling, the latest in a five-year legal battle that has unfolded in both the American and Brazilian courts, put the father, David Goldman, one step closer to being reunited with his son, Sean.
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Dec 07, 2009 -
Two Wounded Soldiers Honored With Purple Heart At Walter Reed
This is an old article but it's something I heard about again recently...
For every solder killed or physically wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, some 10 others come home psychically scarred. The Pentagon has diagnosed roughly 40,000 troops with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since 2003, and tens of thousands of others are dealing with it on their own or ultimately will be diagnosed.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
The Hasan Case: Overt Clues and Tactical Challenges
By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton
In last week’s global security and intelligence report, we discussed the recent call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wahayshi, for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets in the Muslim world and the West. We also noted how it is relatively simple to conduct such attacks against soft targets using improvised explosive devices, guns or even knives and clubs.
The next day, a lone gunman, U.S.
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Nov 14, 2009 -
Republican's exit could clear the way for Tea Party vs. GOP incumbent Bennett
By Aaron Blake
Conservatives have turned to Florida as the central front in their battle with the GOP establishment, but the battle for the Republican Senate nomination in Utah could emerge as the real Tea Party contest.
State Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s exit from the race last week paved the way for other candidates to emerge.
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