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Survivor of two atomic bombs dead at 93

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Tsutomu Yamaguchi died Monday morning as the result of stomach cancer. He was the the only person to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. He was 93.

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Kimberly Shpeley: Marshawn Lynch Ran Me Over

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Marshawn Lynch takes many hits as a running back for the Buffalo Bills.

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Rumored Couple Alert: Rihanna and Matt Kemp

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Rihanna was hit by her boyfriend in 2009. Matt Kemp hit 26 home runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers

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British Court: Stormtroopers don’t belong to Lucas

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Everyone who wants to make their own Stormtrooper costume without fear of reprisals from George Lucas, move to Britain. That seems to be the message sent by the British courts, which have just declared that Star Wars' Stormtroopers aren't copyrightable. The British Court of Appeals upheld the original British verdict that the familiar white-and-black costume couldn't be considered copyrighted because it wasn't art

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Copenhagen: UN threatens to kick civil society groups out of climate negotiations

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

This piece was originally titled: Protesters experience violence outside; Youth stage sit-in http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/12/16/breaking-youth-stage-sit-inside-the-be… Protesters inside the Bella center are staging a sit in and live-blogging at It’s Getting Hot in Here. Their latest entry read: Young people from all over the world are staging a sit-in at Bella Center until we get a Fair, Ambitious, and Binding climate treaty and reading the names of all 11 million signers of the TckTckTck petition.

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Copenhagen breaking news: Protesters experience violence outside; Youth stage sit-in

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Protesters inside the Bella center are staging a sit in and live-blogging at It’s Getting Hot in Here.

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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

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Ask an Expert: Is Uganda About to Start Executing Gays?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The reports of a possible death penalty for gays in Uganda are horrific. But since I don’t know anything about Ugandan politics, I asked Andrew Rice , a friend who wrote a book about Uganda, if he could add some context. Andrew Rice lived in Uganda between 2002 and 2004 and frequently writes about Africa for publications like The New York Times Magazine , The New Republic and The Economist .

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E.P.A. sets carbon crackdown

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will finalize its determination that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories refineries and other major sources. The move gives President Obama a significant tool to combat the gases blamed for the heating of the planet even while Congress remains stalled on economy-wide global warming legislation.

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