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Chart of The Day

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova The severe bloodletting in the construction industry is slowly waning. The pace of layoffs is coming well off its

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Lunar Eclipse

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 9, 2009 A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 6, 2009, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2009.

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The Royal Scam

View full article at oftwominds.com So when you’re reading the news about how randomly careless and stupid everybody was, just remember the Argentine plan: all

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Euphrates Drying

Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times By Campbell Robertson Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry

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Hormats to State

President Barack Obama is nominating Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department. Hormats, 66,

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"Hand of God"

By Matthew Moore What appears, with a little imagination, to be the outstretched fingers were created by a spinning neutron star known as a pulsar