Oh crap…add Volvo to the list of Chinese recalls…. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/business/global/24auto.html added by: Incredulous 10 comments
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Oh crap…add Volvo to the list of Chinese recalls…. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/business/global/24auto.html added by: Incredulous 10 comments
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China to purchase Volvo
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Mexican police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two week after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops — back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon's drug war. The Public Safety office said in a statement Saturday night that Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested in Culiacan, the capital of the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, where he and several of his brothers were born and allegedly started their gang
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Mexico announces capture of alleged drug lord
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Scientists in Italy have discovered a way of making artificial replacement bones out of wood. Early trials on sheep have showed encouraging results.
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Italian scientists’ achieve ‘wood to bone’ medical breakthrough
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When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt. Republicans scoff at the “Jobs for Main Street Act” title that House Democrats put on their $174 billion package last month.
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House Democrats hope to divert bailout funds to ‘Jobs for Main Street Act’
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December was the first month since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq nearly seven years ago in which no U.S. forces died in combat in the country
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NBA all-star Gilbert Arenas pulled a gun on teammate Javaris Crittenton on Christmas Eve in the Wizards locker room.
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NBA teammates pull guns on each other in Locker Room
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Federal officials have begun rounding up at least 2,500 wild horses from Nevada rangeland, triggering protests from animal advocates who say the trapping endangers these symbols of the American West and condemns them to lives in captivity.
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Activists decry wild-horse roundups
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It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English.
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First case of highly drug-resistant Tuberculosis found in US
Several people were killed and more than 300 were arrested in anti-government protests in Tehran Sunday, Iran's Deputy Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan said on state television station IRINN. The toll was the result of clashes that broke out between demonstrators and security forces as large crowds gathered for Ashura, a major religious observance.
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Iran protests increase: 300 arrested and several killed in Tehran
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