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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Ohio Standard.com http://www.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:12:00 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:12:00 -0500 30 Some of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256143/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:45:07 -0500 (Op-ed) Gideon Levy - Haaretz http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256143/cs/1/ Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:10 -0500 Ohio Standard.com http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ I experienced the reality firsthand a week ago. I was interviewing Razia, an Afghan single mother, in the small apartment she shares with her three children in Aghios Panteleimonas square in Athens ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259192/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:54 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259192/ A core tenet of human rights is that they apply equally to everyone. But when it comes to ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe today, popular attitudes and political debate suggest otherwise. In ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259093/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:53 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259093/ David Osmek's commentary ("Stop the light-rail obsession," Feb. 2) was misleading, because he conveniently ignored the staggering costs of business as usual -- which seems to be his ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257557/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:13 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257557/ The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped notably during the Obama administration -- from a high of 11.9 million in 2007 to 11.2 million in 2010. That fact may be lost on ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257556/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:09 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257556/ LOS ANGELES The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257558/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:04 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257558/ FactCheck.org , which tracks accuracy in political messaging, found that the "avalanche of negativity" in recent Florida ads also contained a fair share of distortions and outright lies. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257559/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:59 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257559/ Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259034/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:32:30 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259034/ Yet in drawing up the rules that will govern health care reform, the Obama administration didn't just cross that line. It galloped over it, requiring employers affiliated with the Catholic Church to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259035/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:28:17 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259035/ The World Social Forum meets in Caracas, 2009. From January 24-29, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre was again the staging ground for the World Social Forum (WSF), an annual international gathering ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258710/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:27:51 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258710/ 5 February 2012 10:12PM Let's see if the Government is strong enough to deal with Network Railor will it weakly hide behind the excuse that it's predecessor allowed ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257795/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:01:21 -0500 The Guardian http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257795/ "I think it's very harmful to Republicans because instead of the candidates presenting their views and their policies and their proposals, it's all gotcha," harrumphed Sen. John McCain, no primary ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257562/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:55:40 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257562/ As a retired economics professor, I have seldom heard of anyone who begrudges self-made individuals. However, what no rational person can or should buy is privilege. Medved's statement that we ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257560/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:51:13 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257560/ On ReligionFaith. Religion. Spirituality. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257561/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:49:09 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257561/ We all agree that smoking isn't healthy, but neither is excessive drinking of alcohol or overeating. Does opposing view writer Paul Terpeluk, Cleveland Clinic's medical director of Employee Health ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257546/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:45:33 -0500 USA Today http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257546/ Tray Woodall scored a career high 29 points and Ashton Gibbs added 24 to lead Pitt to a 79-70 victory against Villanova this afternoon at the Petersen Events Center. The Panthers (15-9, 4-7) won ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258709/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:42:20 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258709/ The international community has justifiably expressed outrage over Saturday's veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad step ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257375/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:51:41 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257375/ NEWARK, N.J. -- Ilya Kovalchuk scored one goal and assisted on two others to lead New Jersey to a 5-2 victory today over the Penguins at the Prudential Center. The loss was just the Penguins' ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257374/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:05:58 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257374/ Krishna spells out the sure method to attain any goal that you have set for yourself in the Bhagwad Gita's ninth chapter. He tells Arjuna, "Give your mind wholly to me, be my devotee, ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256391/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:06 -0500 Times of India http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256391/ Please tell us about your book. The idea was basically a detective story about a drunk who's trying to track down a mysterious cricketer. I was working at the time as a copywriter in ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256392/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:03 -0500 Times of India http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256392/ telecom licences issued in 2008 by ex-telecom minister Andimuthu Raja has evoked several strong responses. One is a feeling of schadenfreude: glee that some companies have been stripped of their ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256393/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:06:52 -0500 Times of India http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256393/ It took a high-speed chase, a pursuit on foot, and a scuffle, but two McKees Rocks police officers on routine patrol spotted a car jacking in progress and arrested a suspect. A news release from ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256394/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256394/ (CBS News) I have a confession here. My expertise in Roman numerology goes to about 20 - once we go beyond XX, I have no idea what number we're talking about, so I couldn't tell you how ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255292/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:11:26 -0500 CBS News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255292/ Some members of the grassroots movement known as Occupy Pittsburgh appear this morning to be pulling out of their encampment on BNY Mellon's property. Others appear determined to remain at the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255290/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:19 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255290/ November 1996: Brentwood police Officer John Vojtas looks away from protesters in front of the Allegheny County Courthouse, as he and his legal team cross Grant Street during a recess in now-Sgt. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255289/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:18 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255289/ Using his uncle's Civil War diaries, Mark A. Miner chronicles how the not-yet-famous poet and his uncle overlapped in their service to wounded ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255291/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:17 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255291/ On the day that New Zealand is, or should be, most conscious of its national pride, it seems timely to suggest we should stop pleading for instant access to Australian social welfare. Every time the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254087/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:29:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254087/ (CBS News) News takes on deeper meaning when you put a human face on the statistics. Here's Ben Stein: A few days ago when I opened the newspaper the news was so strange that it made my head ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254070/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:37:12 -0500 CBS News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254070/ Anyone who is asked to sign a petition to force a recall election for Douglas County Commissioner Joe Laurance should think about the consequences ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252944/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:34:21 -0500 News-Review http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252944/ New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up before the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers last month in the City by the Bay. Oddsmakers have their money on Manning and his ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251629/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:33:33 -0500 NPR http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251629/ Contributed by : Carol Gould Editor's Note in January 2012:In light of the troubled and troubling Republican primary debates and ugly campaign rhetoric I remind readers of an editorial I ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251627/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:32 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251627/ Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonWhy is British Television not covering the worst child abuse scandal in American history?Right now it is well into the wee hours and I am glued once again to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251628/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:30 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251628/ Firefighters battled a blaze in Bridgeville this morning that destroyed an apartment building and spread to a neighboring structure. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire at 667 Baldwin ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252943/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252943/ After three challenging years in office and before the revving of his re-election drive, the State of the Union message delivered by the 44th president of the United States had to be interesting, ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252942/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252942/ County Executive Rich Fitzgerald jumped the gun Monday when his office announced that the county had "an improved website" for the new property values of the court-ordered reassessment. It ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252941/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252941/ While legislators across the country debate bills on the dangers of driving while using a cell phone, a report last week added a new wrinkle to the epidemic of traveling while distracted. A study ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252940/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252940/ Two Beaver County residents were hurt Saturday in a car crash blamed on speed. State police at Beaver said Mark Frankenberry, 22, of New Brighton, was cited for driving at an unsafe speed following ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251214/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:08:11 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251214/ Fifty years ago Monday, in a Waseda University auditorium in Tokyo, someone pulled the plug on Robert Kennedy's microphone. The attorney general had come to Japan to repair the U. S.-Japan alliance ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203250406/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:03:13 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203250406/ Recently we learned that the Army and the Marine Corps will become a smaller fighting unit, the Pentagon and top defense officials propose to delay some ships and may even scrap some defense ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248467/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:35:24 -0500 WLOX http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248467/ Do you remember what happened on February 2 last year? On that day, one year ago, Tahrir Square was attacked by thugs on camels, horses and donkeys. These clashes, which lasted for hours and were ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247578/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:19 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247578/ about GLW - the need for alternative media In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248479/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:18 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248479/ 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247599/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:59:02 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247599/ It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247600/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:56 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247600/ France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247601/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247601/ Washington state is promenading down a controversial aisle that's familiar to Californians after its Senate approved a bill last week legalizing same-sex marriage. The lower house and the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248471/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:58 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248471/ There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248472/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:53 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248472/ Vatican Council in 1965, conservative and liberal Roman Catholics have been deeply divided over church teachings, many of them concerning marriage and sexual matters. Those who are more conservative ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248473/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:46 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248473/ In a file picture taken on June 2, 1953 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II accompanied by Prince Philip waves to the crowd after being crowned during her coronation at Westminter Abbey in ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248474/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:42 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248474/ The Smoking Deaths billboard in West L.A. keeps a running tally of annual smoking deaths. Every year, on Dec. 31, a crowd gathers as the death-toll counter resets to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248478/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:37 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248478/ In trying to crack down on the homeless and criminals, L.A.'s City Council is limiting the public's right to the boardwalk at certain hours. It amounts to a curfew, and it strikes us as ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:34 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ GOP presidential candidates were charging that "elites" have launched "a war against religion," a federal court in Rhode Island ordered a public school to remove a prayer mounted ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248475/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:26 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248475/ Contributed by : Carol Gould First published in August 2011 ( still no apology from Raoul's Cafe four months on) London I went to Raoul's deli in Clifton Rd W9 at 4pm on Friday 29 ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247597/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:04 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247597/ Contributed by : Carol Gould It is now four years since I first wrote the following piece. A doctor in Arizona, Robert Kuske, whom I consulted by telephone told me in August 2010 that because I ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247598/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:01 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247598/ President Barack Obama and every other American who believes that the Department of Defense has become oversized in the past 11 years of unremitting warfare must pay close attention as the Pentagon ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248470/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248470/ Come September, it could be really easy to find a space at 18 of the Port Authority's park-n-ride lots. And that's bad news. The Port Authority has scheduled the closing of 2,900 of its ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248469/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248469/ "Mary, Mary, quite contrary," asks a children's rhyme, "how does your garden grow?" When contrary Mary grows up and becomes a real gardening enthusiast, she will find that ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248468/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248468/ is alive and well in contemporary Cajamarca, in the form of the US-based Newmont mining corporation, an outfit with a slick PR machine and a very dirty environmental and human rights track record. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246015/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:32 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246015/ United States' oil giant ExxonMobil had the largest profits of the "big five" oil companies last year, raking in US$41.1 billion. This is a 35% jump from the year before. Here are a ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246924/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:31 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246924/ A prison in Western Sahara. Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Sahrawi people continue to demand independence after ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246206/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:30 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246206/ The Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247367/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:29 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247367/ Anti-austerity protest in Barcelona, January 28. A vast icy pool of Siberian air, the coldest in 50 years, settled over all Europe in late January. At least 150 people without shelter were killed. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246169/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:27 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246169/ By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing 2011, 259 pages, $27.95 (pb) The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler who took a bus ride across ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247368/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:26 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247368/ A 48-hour strike on October 19-20 was the biggest since the end of the Greek dictatorship in 1974. Over October 19-20 there was a general strike in Greece. The overwhelming majority of Greek workers ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:24 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/ – Oct. 7, 2011 But veiled contempt for Mormonism is becoming too regular of a feature on the opinion pages of the Times which published an incomprehensible screed against the faith by scholar ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246110/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:33 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246110/ WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246112/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:29 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246112/ On Feb. 1, a federal court near Seattle, Wash., heard closing arguments in a case about the right of conscience, a fundamental American principle (Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky). That right is the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246111/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:26 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246111/ – Feb. 8, 2011 Two powerful forces are pushing crude oil prices up. First, the administration is restricting production of oil through its energy policy, in which it obstructs efforts to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246115/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:14 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246115/ The current Republican debates have become the latest episode of "Presidential Apprentice, Debating With the Candidates," or "Survivor of D.C." We wait to see who has the most ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246117/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246117/ For the first time in history, Utah has candidates running in four different congressional districts. Most of the interest is in the wide-open contests for the GOP nominations in the 2nd and 4th ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246118/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:59 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246118/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Gasoline prices rose sharply in 2008 and again in 2011, largely as a consequence of rising global demand and limited supply. People's reactions were mixed. Some called ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246119/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:55 -0500 Deseret News http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246119/ (Oregon Coast) – Every time a major death incident happens along the Oregon coast, a tsunami of media outlets cover not just the tragedy itself but also reminders of beach safety. This works ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246762/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:22:19 -0500 Beach Connection http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246762/ In the debate over how to fund a Vikings stadium, Mayor Chris Coleman took a strong stand for St. Paul last week. He's right to have done so. An eventual solution won't be a good one if ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247365/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:49:14 -0500 Pioneer Press http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247365/ Mark Clayton Southers has been working on "The Gammage Project" for two years and directing the play through rehearsals as it readies for a Thursday opening. There was a moment when he let ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247366/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:45:38 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247366/ a function on January 21. Below is his speech at the election launch. * * * Thank you friends and comrades for turning out in such good numbers at a difficult time of the year given holidays and ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244738/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:38:57 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244738/ A rgentina once again is harassing the British-ruled Falkland Islands 500 miles off its southern coast, islands Argentine soldiers seized in 1982 and from which the British ejected them in a ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245900/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:08:34 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245900/ BOSTON -- TD Garden is not the most hospitable venue in the NHL. The team that resides there is big, tough and talented, and fans can be pretty hostile at times. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245895/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:26 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245895/ Unseasonably warm weather across the Midwest and Northeast this winter has dealt a blow to local and regional resorts for the first half of the snowsports season, delivering less natural snow and ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245894/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:25 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245894/ On-again, off-again relationships can be so uncomfortable for friends and associates of the partners, a condition that is especially true when there's been acrimony, talk of betrayal, fights ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245893/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:24 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245893/ It's been too long since the phrases "unemployment rate" and "cautious optimism" could be found in the same sentence. That changed Friday with news that the nation's ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245896/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:23 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245896/ The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245897/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:21 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245897/ "In retrospect,'' Bill DeWeese told me over dinner last June, "I should have been more administratively punctilious.'' That's the way Mr. DeWeese always has ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245899/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:20 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245899/ "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," said Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in one of the most celebrated passages in ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245898/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:55:18 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203245898/ Duquesne snapped a 14-game losing streak against Richmond Saturday night, beating the Spiders 81-72 in the Chuck Cooper Classic at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Duquesne dominated the boards 39-31, shot ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:13 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain's 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244921/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:59:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244921/ In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:50 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ . That is surely a clue that the people Abbott directed his "unAustralian" jibe at were never exactly aspiring to win any "fair dinkum Aussie" award. These are people who have ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Spain ’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:35:13 -0500 New York Times http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ IN the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as pro-life as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248466/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:29:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248466/ INDIANAPOLIS -- The road for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, selected here Saturday and inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer, must go through Pittsburgh. Of the six new Hall of ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:14:42 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 - published, of all places, on a Web s http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:12:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ As the world has grown smaller while our passion for novelty has expanded, our curiosity about different cultures, particularly those relatively untouched by what we deem "civilisation", ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:33 -0500 The Guardian http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus. ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:41 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt? The Republican presidential nomination ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:38 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:34 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ The Legislature's careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for "sunshine" are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:29 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year's legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:25 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:20 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Fabio Capello , noted fan of opera, and collector of art, will be pondering the question of team spirit. He'll think of Steven Gerrard, who punched a disc jockey in the face as the man walked ... http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:20:48 -0500 The Guardian http://story.ohiostandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/