But Bushco Is Making Progress In Iraq
Four days of sectarian slaughter killed at least 91 people by Monday in Balad, a town near a major U.S. air base an hour's drive north of the capital. Elsewhere, 60 Iraqis died in attacks and 16 tortured bodies were found.
The U.S. command said seven American troops died in fighting a day earlier. That raised the U.S. toll to 58 killed in the first two weeks of October, a pace that if continued would make the month the worst for coalition forces since 107 U.S. and 10 British soldiers died in January 2005.
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Tuesday October 17, 2006 5:16 AM
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Four days after the record-setting snowstorm hit, nearly 200,000 homes and businesses remained without power, and a carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator was blamed for three deaths, officials said Monday.
At least three other people died earlier in the storm, which dumped up to two feet of heavy snow on Buffalo and surrounding areas Thursday and Friday.
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I'm lazy, *shrug*
Why is carbon monoxide poisoning so hard for people to "get"? You just can't burn fuel inside a building.
China becoming ‘like Africa’ with AIDS scourge
(Reuters)
17 October 2006
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HIV/AIDS became a major headache for China in the 1980s and 1990s, when hundreds of thousands of impoverished farmers became infected through botched blood-selling schemes.
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(was simply unaware of this)
Tomgram: Schwartz, 9 Paradoxes of a Lost War
HT gt JC
PEACE
U.S. Population on Track to 300 Million
"Because the U.S. has become a suburban nation, sprawl has become the most predominant form of land use," said Vicky Markham, director of the Center for Environment and Population, an advocacy group. "Sprawl is, by definition, more spread out. That of course requires more vehicles and more vehicle miles traveled."
I hate sprawl and am ashamed I worked my way thru university building interstate highways. Hey, it was an honest buck and a large one too.
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