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12-31	How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly - Tsunami after-effects - Are We Stingy? Yes
12-31	Price of Bush Inauguration Party Is Too Rich for Some
12-31	Justice Expands 'Torture' Definition - Republican Judge Takes Aim at Bush Terror Policies - Torture - From J.F.K. to Baby Bush
12-31	Watchdog Groups Criticize G.O.P. Plan on Ethics Complaints - House to Consider Relaxing Its Rules
12-31	China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence
12-31	High court disallows appeal for television ad privacy
12-31	Dollar Hits Record Low Vs Euro
12-31	Bush to Push for Medical Liability Changes
12-30	Forget OPEC. The next cartel may export drinking water - How safe is the water?
12-30	Rising Death Toll Tops 116,000 - Tsunami Toll Could Top 100,000, Red Cross Says -  Did Animals Sense Tsunami? -  Where Are All The Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks - Coral Reefs May Take Years to Recover from Tsunami - Tsunami Threatens Survival of Indian Tribes - Leader of atoll nation mourns paradise lost - Five million people in 11 countries lack the basic requirements for life
12-30	Bush Converts National Forest Management to Corporate Model
12-30	G.O.P. to Make Ethics Inquiries Harder to Begin
12-30	GOP Sets Up Senate Collision on Judges
12-30	Out of the Cabinet and into the Money
12-30	Who Is Fighting for Whom in Iraq?
12-30	Another Shoe Drops at C.I.A.
12-30	Tailgated by Media Technology
12-30	Tsunamis and Nuclear Power Plants
12-30	Water Is Key to Averting Epidemics Along Coasts
12-30	Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries
12-30	Germans Resent Bush’s Coming Visit
12-30	George Bush has purged the last of his father's senior advisers, handing over control to his neocon allies
12-30	US Businesses Overseas Threatened by Rising Anti-Americanism
12-30	The War on CAFTA Is Just Beginning
12-29	The Year the Earth Fought Back
12-29	Sri Lanka Rides Wave from Bad to Worse
12-29	Warning rejected to protect tourism - Scientists in USA saw tsunami coming - Dead Are Put at 57,000 as Bodies Wash Ashore — Many Missing - At the Epicenter, Tales of Death and of Stubborn Fights for Life - A Tragedy in Asia Affects All Corners of a Closer World - Experts Say Accurate Toll Is Hard to Calculate - Irate Over 'Stingy' Remark, U.S. Adds $20 Million to Disaster Aid - Sounding the Alarm on a Tsunami Is Complex and Expensive
12-29	'Mangroves Can Act as Shield against Tsunami' - Deaths by Water - and Environmental Degradation
12-29	U.S., Britain Holding 10,000 Prisoners in Iraq
12-29	Like a Christmas Tree in the Gutter - Selling the Forest for the Trees
12-29	A Devil's Island for Our Times - Congress Is Quiet on Abuse of Detainees
12-29	New Method Removes MTBE From Water
12-29	Director of Analysis Branch at the C.I.A. Is Being Removed
12-29	Nuclear Capabilities May Elude Terrorists, Experts Say
12-29	China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters every year
12-28	Huge relief effort underway; Far higher death toll feared in South Asian disaster - Asian youths may be half of tsunami victims - In Drowned Village, Grim Searches, Quick Burials - At Warning Center, Alert for the Quake, None for a Tsunami - Billions in Aid Needed for Devastated Areas, U.N. Official Says
12-28	After the tragedy sum of our fears doesn't add up - How can religious people explain something like this? Earthquakes led 18th-century thinkers to ask questions we shy away from - ... and What We Make of It
12-28	Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers
12-28	Pentagon Is Pressing to Bypass Environmental Laws for War Games and Arms Testing
12-28	Saying goodbye to a Hawaii native - Species threatened with extinction
12-28	CIA resists request for abuse data - Trail of torture leads to Washington
12-28	Forest Service Plans Deletes Environmental Protections, Critics Say
12-28	Bush Sending the Wrong Message as Chaos Smolders in Iraq
12-28	Madagascar's Poor See No Benefit from Conservation
12-28	Bush Wants to Break Promise of Social Security
12-28	Facing an e-waste mountain - Health alert over flat screen TVs
12-27	Untold Numbers Are Missing in 6 Countries - Nations with most fatalities not part of tsunami warning system - With No Alert System, Indian Ocean Nations Were Vulnerable - Disaster Sneaks In and a Village Is Pummeled - It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible - Walls of Water Sweeping All in Their Path: Families, Communities, Livelihoods - Massive rescue efforts as Asian quake and tsunami toll soars near 23,000 - Tsunamis Need Not Take Lives
12-27	Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War
12-27	Taxpayers May Be Liable for Oil Cleanup - Abandoned oil and gas wells a growing risk, analysis shows
12-27	Big Pharma's Dirty Little Secret
12-27	History Will Show U.S. Lusted after Oil
12-27	How Bush Won
12-27	Illnesses blamed on creosote plant in DeSoto town
12-27	Sexual abnormalities in fish another alarm on danger of polluting the rivers
12-27	Forest Non-Planning
12-27	Oceans in trouble - Over-fishing, pollution should be curbed
12-27	The Emperor-in-Chief
12-27	Living in Garbage - The Butcher's Bill
12-26	US to Take Bigger Bite of Iraq's Economic Pie; 'Helping' Govt Cut Social Subsidies, Give US Corporations Full Access to Iraqi Oil
12-26	An Eyewitness Account of Fallujah
12-26	Further Detainee Abuse Alleged
12-26	More Than 3,000 Believed Killed by Huge Tidal Waves in Asia
12-26	More Risks for Forests
12-26	Wal-Mart tops state CHIP list; Retailer stands out in program for uninsured kids (Another example of how Wal-Mart's low prices have us all paying in other ways.) - Small town Big Wal-Mart: Spencer lured the giant to town — what are the effects?
12-26	Governors Unite in Effort to Stave Off Medicaid Cuts
12-26	Protesters seek more inauguration permits
12-26	As Nuclear Secrets Emerge, More Are Suspected
12-26	Meth's surge leaves a trail of misery in Kentucky and Indiana; Children, states and environment pay a severe price
12-26	More Oil Is Thought Spilled From Freighter Off Alaska
12-26	Tribal Money Linked to GOP Fundraising
12-26	Evolution Shares a Desk With 'Intelligent Design'
12-26	Ex-Hostage: Rebels Wanted Bush Re-Elected
12-26	US May Strike at Ba'athists in Syria
12-26	Christmas Comes to the Mole People In the Tunnels Under New York City
12-26	Pollution alters body chemistry; Substances in environment upset hormonal balance
12-26	Groups Say Sewage Plan Stinks
12-26	Battle Looms Over State Water Project
12-25	Hungry for Change, Visionaries Promote Alternatives to Foods Banks
12-25	Empires Prefer a Baby and the Cross to the Adult Jesus; From Constantine to Bush, power has needed to stifle a revolutionary message
12-25	Falluja Returnees Angry, 'City Unfit for Animals' - U.S. Families of Dead Raise 600,000 Dollars for Fallujah Refugees
12-25	Blast hits after Rumsfeld leaves; 2nd soldier from W.Va. killed in Mosul blast ID'd
12-25	U.S. Living in 'Fantasy Land' over Iraq
12-25	Judge Limits Protections Allowed to Federal Whistle-Blowers
12-25	Venezuela and China sign oil deal
12-25	Logging Fears as Bush Eases Forestry Laws
12-25	Steps Forward, Steps Backwards
12-25	Bush will face major foreign policy challenges beyond war on terror
12-24	War Crimes- Did President Bush Order Torture? - Torture at the Top
12-24	Come next month, Bush's Inauguration Day approval ratings may be the worst of any president in modern-day history
12-24	New Forest Plan Would Lessen Restraints - Forest Service's Plans Strip Out Environmental Protections, Critics Say
12-24	Precedent-Setting Water Rights Decision over Endangered Species
12-24	Hope at Midnight
12-24	Bush Tries Again on Court Choices Stalled in Senate - Bush Will Renominate 20 Judges - Ideological Warfare Takes No Holiday, Bush Announces He Will Re-Submit Extremist Nominees
12-24	US Failed to Honestly Assess Iraq Threat-Report - Powell Advised Bush to Add Iraq Troops; Secretary Joined Blair And President in Talks
12-24	Families Pay the Price - Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq (Ooh. Can't you just feel the compassion oozing?) - Iraqis' Dismay Surges as Lights Flicker and Gas Lines Grow
12-24	Bush Plans a Media Blitz on Social Security
12-24	Compliant News Media Have Failed the American People
12-24	Norway Oil Drilling To More Than Double
12-24	US may strike at Ba'athists in Syria, official tells 'Post'
12-24	How Uncle Santa Diddles Dems from Ukraine to Venezuela
12-24	Campaigners cry foul over EU fishing quotas deal
12-24	Wicked Weed of the West
12-24	Environmental group targets toys
12-24	Household Chemicals in Direct Link to Asthma Rise
12-24	Battered dollar hits another low
12-23	U.S. to Pay $16 Million in Water Rights Case - U.S. Agrees to Pay for Diverting Water to Aid Two Rare Fish
12-23	Administration Overhauls Rules for U.S. Forests - NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS UNDERMINE DECADES OF SOUND FOREST MANAGEMENT - New Rules Issued for National Forests
12-23	Students to Bear More of the Cost of College
12-23	Iraq Reality Check - Battle scars - The Exploitation of Soldiers
12-23	Ten More Years? - Analysis: A Deadly Prelude to Bush's Second Term
12-23	Iraqi City in Lockdown After U.S. Base Blasted - Christmas Eve of Destruction
12-23	Why Are We Inflicting This Discredited Market Fundamentalism on Iraq?
12-23	Japan discovers first human case of bird flu
12-23	ChevronTexaco Sued in Californian Refinery Emissions
12-23	China in Line as U.S. Rival for Canada Oil
12-23	Kelley Calls for Full Airing on Proposed Government-wide Employee ID; Urges ‘Wider Exposure’ For Biometric Access Plan
12-23	'Indecency' on the Air, 'Evolution' Atop the F.C.C.
12-23	Departing Lawmakers Cash in Years of Service for Big Bucks
12-23	The Bush Economic Plan: Born Again Economics
12-23	Drug Firms are on the Defense as Filmmaker Michael Moore Plans to Dissect Their Industry
12-23	The Compassion of the Christ
12-23	Will the GOP Nuke the Constitution?
12-23	Rumsfeld pressed over Mosul blast
12-23	Travelers who strive to do no harm
12-23	U.S. Rethinks Human Studies on Pesticides
12-22	Nanotechnology: Small but deadly
12-22	The politics of the Christmas story
12-22	U.S. Cutting Food Aid That Is Aimed at Self-Sufficiency (And this helps us in the "war on terror"? One root of terrorism: poverty!) - Big Cities Will Get More in Antiterrorism Grants
12-22	W.House Expects Probe of Iraq, Guantanamo Abuses - U.S. Loses Bid to Stop Turnover of CIA Records - Newly Released Documents Show Possible Interference by Army Commander In Investigation Into Murder of Iraqi Detainee - New Papers Suggest Detainee Abuse Was (Is) Widespread - FBI Agents Complained of Prisoner Abuse, Records Say - Cataloguing US abuses - Torture's Path Has Alberto Gonzalez's Footprints
12-22	56 Percent in Survey Say Iraq War Was a Mistake; Poll Also Finds Slight Majority Favoring Rumsfeld's Exit - Fighting On Is the Only Option, Americans Say
12-22	Precision of Base Attack Worries Military Experts
12-22	Down and Out in Discount America
12-22	New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Oppose Arctic Refuge Drilling
12-22	Media Blacks Out Bush Attack on Labor
12-22	Bush won't "negotiate with himself"
12-22	Tight inauguration security set; Every person along the parade route for the first such ceremony since 9/11 will be subject to search
12-22	The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security
12-22	EU Scraps Cod Closure Plan in Marathon Fish Talks
12-22	Medicare's Troubles May Be Sleeping Giant
12-22	Bush puts Iran, Syria on notice
12-22	Mining Giant Told It Put Toxic Vapors Into Indonesia's Air
12-22	When the Right Is Right
12-22	Venezuela Keeps Hope Alive
12-22	Dutch Pioneer Corporate Bike to Rival Company Car
12-22	Writer held as China turns on intellectuals
12-22	Entertaining Web Sites Promote Products Subtly
12-22	Holiday Haul Goes to High-End Retailers
12-22	Take The Money And Run Offshore
12-21	FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques - New F.B.I. Files Describe Abuse of Iraq Inmates - New jail abuse allegations hit US
12-21	100,000 flee fresh fighting in Congo
12-21	Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New Study Finds
12-21	Lung Cancer Linked to Gulf War Fires
12-21	When Wal-Mart lost: Seven years ago, Kanawha City stood up to a giant
12-21	Dying For Basic Care: For Blacks, Poor Health Care Access Cost 900,000 Lives - Ending Racial Disparities in Health Care Could Save Five Times More Lives Than Technological Advances
12-21	Voting Machine Vendors Campaign
12-21	Security Drill at Weapons Plant Raises Safety Questions
12-21	As Criticism Grows, Bush Offers Support of Rumsfeld
12-21	Bush Acknowledges Impact of Insurgents; But President Says He Is Confident Democracy Will Prevail in Iraq
12-21	Abstinence: Programs fail public
12-21	EPA May Lift Ban on Dow's Termite Killer
12-21	The Myth of National Victimhood - All Wrapped and Delivered for Christmas
12-21	The School of Creationism
12-21	Deconstructing Alberto
12-21	A True Safety Net
12-21	Amazon gas heralds changes in Brazil rain forest
12-21	'Eye in the sky' watches over air
12-21	Fire, Logging Threaten Borneo's Rich Ecosystem
12-21	Southeast Asia Fights Bird Flu, Top Health Risk
12-21	Water, time drying up ...  - Led by zebra mussels, a host of invasive species is wreaking ecological havoc in Lake Michigan
12-21	Monsanto sets up $285 million reserve
12-20	U.S. takes border war on the road; Boats being sunk near Ecuador
12-20	More Aggressive Congress Could Hinder Bush's Plans
12-20	West Virginia not 'judicial hellhole,' group contends
12-20	War on the Cheap
12-20	West has bloodied hands
12-20	Bush administration ignores main recommendations of ocean policy panel
12-20	On a Deadly Day in Iraq, Republicans Step Up Debate Over Whether Rumsfeld Should Stay
12-20	Christian ideals and Republican policies
12-20	Bush Is Time's 'Person of the Year' - 1939: Adolph Hitler Time's Man of the Year
12-20	Bible Is 'Lies and Spin,' Says C4
12-20	When will the president respond to the cascading allegations of prisoner abuse by the military?
12-20	White House Defends FDA as Drug Safety Debate Looms
12-20	Legal advice on British ID cards kept secret - Lawyer resigns over terror laws
12-20	New Law to Spread the Use Of CIA's Analysis Approach
12-20	Fighting Dirty
12-20	Time for Bread and Roses
12-20	Battle Lines Form on Social Security
12-20	In the Zone with G.I. Joe - The New Military Life: Heading Back to the War
12-20	Witness Puts Plan Colombia in Sharp Focus
12-20	2001 Memo Reveals Push for Broader Presidential Powers
12-20	Earth-Hostile Chemical Gets White House OK
12-20	New Power for 'Old Europe'
12-19	After a 15-year presence in West Virginia, Wal-Mart is a force, with more than 11,000 employees. But is it a success or a scourge?
12-19	Unions Have No Answers to Outsourcing
12-19	Violence against Women: The Unacknowledged Casualties of War
12-19	The Wounds of War
12-19	Some Put Money Where Their Politics Are
12-19	Drivers licenses changes
12-19	27 million in US to see tax bill rise
12-19	Abnormal Fish Found Closer to Washington; Waste Suspected in Egg-Bearing Males
12-19	After Outcry, Rumsfeld Says He Will Sign Condolence Letters - A Not So Wonderful Life - Rumsfeld's Critics Grow Stronger - Byrd critical of defense secretary
12-19	How Dubious Evidence Spurred Relentless Guantánamo Spy Hunt
12-19	U.S. economy major target of al-Qaida; Effort unlikely to succeed, experts say (We'll just spend away our kids' futures on the "war on terror.")
12-19	Pentagon Seeks to Expand Role in Intelligence
12-19	Whitman Warns Against Catering to Right
12-19	China becoming world leader in nuclear power: outgoing US Energy Secretary
12-19	Park may be last place to see uncut hemlock forest in W.Va.
12-19	In Kerik, Bush Saw Values Crucial to Post-9/11 World
12-19	US Isn't Winning Against Iraqi Insurgents, Agencies Warn
12-19	The Emperor's Same, Old Clothes
12-19	Nation Doesn't Need an AG Who Cleared Path for Torture
12-19	Another Water Revolt Begins in Bolivia
12-18	Rumsfeld’s exchange with GI may prove to be his undoing - Rumsfeld Gave Torture 'Marching Orders' in Memo
12-18	All the President's Problems - Bush's slash and smear campaign is trying to bring all disparate elements under US control
12-18	America's Sinister Plan for Falluja - A Month After U.S. Declared City 'Liberated,' Insurgents Vow to Keep Fighting - America's Fallujan Dystopia
12-18	In Congo War, Even Peacekeepers Add to Horror
12-18	Facing Down the Killers
12-18	Officials Describe Secret C.I.A. Center at Guantánamo Bay
12-18	A Tenuous Hold on the Middle Class; African Americans On Shifting Ground
12-18	Bush Signs Sweeping Intelligence Reform - White House Predicts Slower Growth in 2005 - Bush Looking at Freezing Domestic Spending (It's expensive to wag an endless war on terror, plus another war built on lies, deceit.)
12-18	Poll: Nearly half of Americans for limiting Muslim-Americans' rights (Yikes!)
12-18	Cuba Erects Sign Linking U.S. and Nazis - Cuba Erects Iraq Abuse Billboards Near U.S. Mission
12-18	U.S. Designates Al-Manar TV as 'Terrorist' (Will Fox News at least get a "propagandist" label?")
12-18	New Gallup Poll Raises Questions about Media Focus on 'Values'
12-18	New Panel to Direct U.S. Policy on Oceans; Crisis Isn't Being Addressed, Critics Say - Human assault of oceans must stop
12-18	Paving the Amazon with Soy
12-18	Coral reefs dying: Study says less than a third remain healthy
12-18	Pentagon Proposes Loosening Its Environmental Policy
12-18	U.S. and Russian Nuclear Missiles are Still on Hair-Trigger Alert
12-18	The revolutionary human compost that has changed the face of farming in Mozambique
12-17	Quiet Protest Planned for Inauguration
12-17	At Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison; CIA Has Run a Secret Facility for Some Al Qaeda Detainees, Officials Say
12-17	Conference Mocks Trial Lawyers; White House Session on Limiting Lawsuits Shows Contempt - West Virginia Ranks No. 4 in Tort "Reform" Association's Ridiculous Annual National List - All West Virginians pay high price in state that's a 'judicial hellhole' - And now here's the Truth: The Medical Malpractice Insurance "Crisis" and its threat to YOUR rights - How Our Civil Justice System Protects Consumers
12-17	Strange choice - Fiddling as Iraq Burns
12-17	British Court Says Detentions Violate Rights
12-17	Oversight on Bioengineered Crops Is Poor, Report Says
12-17	LCV Releases 2004 National Environmental Scorecard
12-17	Kremlin Reasserts Hold on Russia's Oil and Gas
12-17	Mountain Lions Move East, Breeding Fear on the Prairie
12-17	Guard Reports Serious Drop in Enlistment - Guard to triple re-enlistment bonuses (How much of a bonus do you want for risking your life and killing civilians for BushCo's lies?)
12-17	Lott Joins Republican Critics of Rumsfeld
12-17	Wolfowitz raises fears of anthrax attack
12-17	Guarding the Guardians of Peace
12-17	Buying Into Failure
12-17	Colombian Militants Recruited for Iraq Mercenary Gig
12-17	Two Halliburton executives may get millions
12-17	Oversight Is Lacking, F.D.A. Scientists Say
12-17	Bush Reaffirms U.S. Missile Defense Plans
12-17	Having hard time living in sunset of the republic (scroll down)
12-16	A Flood of Troubled Soldiers Is in the Offing, Experts Predict
12-16	Defense Missile for U.S. System Fails to Launch
12-16	Yushchenko’s blood contains more than 6,000 times normal dioxin concentration (Not that there is any "normal" level; rather we all have dioxin in our bodies from pollution, such as the emissions from burning coal.)
12-16	Lawsuit "Reform" a Bush Priority; President Seeks to Limit Class-Action, Malpractice Cases (Another gift to campaign funders at huge expense to the common people, if enacted) W.Va. high in 'hellhole' rankings from BS group
12-16	In Bed with Terrorists
12-16	War Funding Request May Hit $100 Billion
12-16	Molly Ivins: Questions on Social Security
12-16	Justice Reviews Request for Probe Of Satellite Reports - It's Planes vs. Satellites in Debate on Spying
12-16	Who Killed Baha Mousa?
12-16	Food Supply Vulnerable to Contamination by Drugs and Plastics from Gene-Altered Crops
12-16	Rep. Billy Tauzin Demonstrates That Washington's “Revolving Door” Is Spinning Out of Control - House's Author of Drug Benefit Joins Lobbyists
12-16	U.S. Military 'Obstructing' Medical Care in Iraq
12-16	Why Not the Coalition of the Shilling?
12-16	With Few Options Left, Big Oil Pushes Deeper into Gulf of Mexico
12-15	PENTAGON TO JETTISON ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Pentagon to Dump Environmental Responsibilities
12-15	Rich Need To Do More on Environment - World Bank (Yes, an the World Bank needs to stop funding environmentally disastrous fossil fuel projects)
12-15	Supreme Court Limits Pollution Cleanup Lawsuits
12-15	Detainee Abuse by Marines Is Detailed - Document Reveals More U.S. Detainee Abuse in Iraq
12-15	Iraqi Campaign Raises Question of Iran's Sway
12-15	Democrats Say They'll Assume Watchdog Role (Better late than never...) Senate Dems Plan Investigatory Hearings
12-15	Bush Allies May Defect Over Fiscal Proposals
12-15	To support troops, fire Rumsfeld - Rumsfeld, the Bungler - Rights Group Puts Rumsfeld on Spot Over Afghan Deaths - McCain: 'No Confidence' in Rumsfeld
12-15	THE CASE AGAINST PINOCHET
12-15	Bush Gives Medal of Freedom to 'Pivotal' Iraq Figures (Barf bag anyone?)
12-15	Water Contract Renewals Stir Debate Between Environmentalists and Farmers in California
12-15	Blumenthal: Stores selling illegal toys with mercury
12-15	A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA 'Bar Codes'
12-15	Unfair: Gestapo tactics
12-15	New York Art Shuttered After Bush Monkey Portrait
12-15	Court OKs Arrest on 'Reasonable' Grounds
12-15	9-11 Black Boxes Found
12-14	The Price of Fear Is Paid in Lost Freedom
12-14	Iraq President: Citizens That Feel Humiliated Could Lead to 'Iraqi Hitler'
12-14	The Boss Has Gone Crazy
12-14	Bush OKs Ruling That May Endanger Species
12-14	Owned by Bush-backers, an emboldened Sinclair Broadcasting is pushing forward with its right-wing agenda; It's time to push back
12-14	Pinochet arrested on murder charge
12-14	Discovering Darfur
12-14	SPJ concerned over Taricani sentencing
12-14	Inquiry of Kerik in '00 Puts Focus on Vetting Issue
12-14	Senate split saddens Sen. Byrd
12-14	Mexican town curbs mine giant
12-14	Method removes MTBE from water
12-14	Rumsfeld's Fig Leaf Falling
12-14	Penalties are few for idling diesel engines
12-13	Scott Ritter: The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen
12-13	Beyond the Disclosure About Kerik's Nanny, More Questions Were Lurking
12-13	Victim Claims Abu Ghraib Torture was Official U.S. Policy
12-13	GOP May Target Use of Filibuster
12-13	EPA hasn't won the improvements it touted - Residents challenge 'sham' refinery deal
12-13	More talk heard of desertion, disgruntlement; `Backdoor draft' adding to worries for some troops
12-13	Pentagon Weighs Use of Deception in a Broad Arena
12-13	Anti-Social Security
12-13	A Hostile Land Foils the Quest for bin Laden
12-13	Blocking Mr. Torture
12-13	Christian Conservatives Press Issues in Statehouses
12-13	A Year after Saddam's Capture, Iraq's Rebels Fight On
12-13	Soldiers go unprotected
12-13	U.S. Caught in Kabul - Karzai Plans to Destroy Poppy Fields in 2 Years
12-13	First Inauguration Since 9/11 Spurs Tightest Security
12-13	Political blow for Brazil's Lula
12-13	China to expand forest protection plan
12-13	US tapped ElBaradei calls, claim officials
12-13	Money Spied Off a Vanishing Coastline
12-12	Rumsfeld's Double Standard
12-12	Guantánamo Torture and Humiliation Still Going On, Says Shackled Briton
12-12	New Spy Plan Said to Involve Satellite System
12-12	Yushchenko Was Poisoned, Doctors Say
12-12	Frankenfood: Biotech crops booming
12-12	So Little Time, So Many Regimes to Change
12-12	40 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic-tainted water
12-12	Haiti: A nation still on edge
12-11	Debate on Secret Program Bursts Into Open
12-11	Destroying forests won't save them, conservationists say
12-11	Scandal-Plagued Kerik Withdraws Nomination - Kerik Pulls Out as Bush Nominee for Homeland Security Job - Homeland Security Nominee Kerik Pulls Out
12-11	Jailing reporters
12-11	All Corruption Charges Against Berlusconi Are Dismissed
12-11	Unions Plan Big Drive for Better Pay at Nonunion Wal-Mart
12-11	US Stance on Armor Disputed
12-11	The P.U.-litzer Prizes For 2004
12-11	Government Relying on Industry to Protect Water Supplies
12-10	Halliburton's Iraq Contracts Now Worth over $10 Billion
12-10	A Defeat For an Empire
12-10	Security Post Would Put Kerik Atop Field That Enriched Him
12-10	Bush Approach to Be More Disciplined and Aggressive
12-10	Abuse 'continued after Abu Ghraib'
12-10	CIA documents cast new light on Washington's role in Venezuela
12-10	Uncle Sam Wants Your Kids - Now!
12-10	Measure Expands Police Powers; Intelligence Bill Includes Disputed Anti-Terror Moves - NATA Encouraged by TSA Takeover of Passenger Pre-Screening
12-10	Senators condemn mystery spy project
12-10	Passports go electronic with new microchip
12-10	Reporters Fight in Court Not to Reveal Sources - Paper Barred From Fort Carson Over Story
12-10	It's Inauguration Time Again, and Access Still Has Its Price
12-10	U.N. Members Give Annan Standing Ovation
12-10	Armor Scarce for Big Trucks Serving in Iraq
12-10	US Petroleum Demand to Grow 37 Percent by 2025
12-10	Too Little is Known About the Health Consequences of Eating Farm-Raised Shrimp
12-10	Judge Pickering's Retirement Announcement Ignores His Anti-Environmentalism Activism and Ethical Problems - A Graceful Exit by Judge Pickering - Pickering’s Foul Farewell
12-10	Borrow, Speculate and Hope
12-10	Major Fuel Spill Reported in Alaska
12-10	STEWING IN FILTH: EPA TO REVERSE SEWAGE STANDARD, ALLOW MASSIVE DUMPING - Canada Plans to Limit Ammonia, Chlorine in Wastewater
12-10	Shift Toward Skepticism for Civil Rights Panel
12-10	Boone teens prove too smart for racist group Panzerfaust
12-10	Congress Tries to Undermine War Crimes Court
12-10	U.S. Media Still Hiding Bad News From Americans
12-10	Boom in growing soybeans endangers South American environment
12-10	One Billion 'Denied a Childhood'
12-9	Losing limbs, but living
12-9	Troops' Queries Leave Rumsfeld on the Defensive
12-9	Nigeria's Oil Fuels Anger, Bloodshed
12-9	Killed Unarmed Iraqis, Ex-Marine Tells Hearing
12-9	Bush asks religious rules be posted
12-9	Americans’ Opinions About Genetically Modified Foods Remain Divided, But Majority Want A Strong Regulatory System - Half of China Crops May Be Biotech By 2014
12-9	German forests in worse state than ever before
12-9	I Won't Take the Cod, Thank You - EU Calls For Fishing Closures To Stop Cod Dying Out
12-9	What Now for the NAACP?
12-9	Amazon Burning Makes Brazil a Leading Polluter
12-9	Pygmy Chimpanzees on Brink of Extinction
12-9	Pollutants in New York City’s drinking water
12-8	Afraid To Look in the Moral Abyss
12-8	1,000th U.S. Soldier Killed in Action in Iraq
12-8	Huge no-fishing zones 'offer only hope' of saving marine ecosystem from disaster - UK commission findings - a wake up call to the crisis in our oceans - Ban Fishing In One-Third Of Oceans - UK Scientists - Environmental catastrophe that can be averted - Fishing ban call gets short shrift
12-8	India's Highest Court Orders Coke, Pepsi to Print Pesticide Residue Levels
12-8	Reasons for Optimism on Global Health Front
12-8	Torture and Death
12-8	Director's Control Is a Concern
12-8	Japanese continue to make greenest vehicles, report says - Honda Gets 'Greenest' Award From US Group
12-8	Carmakers Fight Calif. CO{-2} Limits -US Automakers Challenge California Emission Rules - CARMAKERS SUE CALIFORNIA ON GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS RULE, CHOOSE LITIGATION OVER INNOVATION
12-8	Is Liberalism Dead?
12-8	Mexico Steps Up Battle Against Illegal Logging
12-8	US Study Links Lead Exposure To Cataracts
12-8	U.S. Workers' Group Says EPA Censors Comments
12-8	US air force 'deaf to sex claims'
12-8	A Call to Arms
12-8	Shangri-La No More: The Dragons Have Settled In
12-8	Protests Cut Deeper Into Nigerian Oil Output
12-7	45 Million Children To Die in Next Decade Due to Rich Countries' Miserliness
12-7	Administration claims killing leads to peace
12-7	2 C.I.A. Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's Path
12-7	Dirty Warriors
12-7	Commander Sees Shift In Role of U.S. Troops
12-7	Post-Election Review Documents Barriers to Ballot, Systemic Inequities and Irregularities
12-7	Accord Reached on Overhauling U.S. Intelligence
12-7	Chickens Come Home to Roost
12-7	Inventing a Crisis - Bush launches bid for big changes in Social Security
12-7	Putin Denounces American "Dictatorship" in Guarded Language
12-7	Karzai Sworn in as First Democratically Elected Afghan President
12-7	Ukraine Leader Accepts New Vote, Blasts U.S. Meddling
12-7	Topping Off the Biggest Gas Tank
12-7	Musharraf: Look to Terrorism Roots
12-7	Price of Global Hawk Surveillance Program Rises
12-7	Icarus (Armed with Vipers) over Iraq
12-7	In the Kill Zone: Managing Facts Army Spun Tale Around Ill-fated Mission
12-7	"America Is So Much Better Than This"
12-7	Military lawyers defend civil liberties
12-7	As Tech Trash Piles Up, E-Junk Recycling Still in its Infancy
12-7	Scientists Make Phone That Turns Into A Sunflower
12-6	Attackers Strike U.S. Consulate in Saudi Arabia - Wave of Violence by Iraqi Rebels Kills 80 in 3 Days
12-6	At F.D.A., Strong Drug Ties and Less Monitoring
12-6	An exclusive, in-depth interview with journalist Dahr Jamail on what is really going on in Iraq
12-6	New Underground Railroad forming; Volunteers helping dissidents run north to find home
12-6	Economic situation of working class will only get worse
12-6	Driving Bans Loom In Europe For Unfiltered Diesels
12-6	Army Spun Tale Around Ill-Fated Mission
12-6	Eight Soldiers Plan to Sue Over Army’s Stop-Loss Policy
12-6	For Biotech, the Action Is in Washington as Much as in the Lab
12-6	Iraq's Neighbours To Get Little For Environment Loss
12-6	Chinese on high alert as experts predict bird flu disaster
12-6	Changes May Be Needed in Superfund, Chief Says
12-6	Tundra Study Backs Longer Oil-Search Season
12-6	Cut loggers’ necks with chainsaws–Duterte - Poverty, Graft at Root of Philippine Tragedy
12-6	Torture in Our Names
12-6	Little Big Man
12-6	Dollar slides to a new euro low
12-6	New forces dominate Bolivia poll
12-6	Why I Resigned from the CIA
12-6	GOP Prepares to Sink Teeth into Social Security
12-5	A Field Guide to the Falling Dollar
12-5	Musharraf: Bin Laden's Location Is Unknown - Bush renews support for Musharraf
12-5	In Iraq, the US Does Eliminate Those Who Dare to Count the Dead
12-5	Dead in the water: How we are killing the seas
12-5	Bush Downplays Thompson's Terror Worries
12-5	Here, Kiddie, Kiddie
12-5	Delaware River Oil Oozes, Mess Gets Murkier
12-5	Secret Intelligence and the 'War on Terror'
12-5	Souls for Sale
12-5	Guam's Birds Threatened as Air Force Project Takes Wing
12-5	British troops wage war on Afghan drugs
12-5	UN Oil for Food 'Scandal'-GOP targets Annan
12-5	Are we doing enough?
12-5	Scientists confident liquid water once flowed on Mars
12-4	The Public Cost of Privatization
12-4	Gaia theory's new signs of life
12-4	The White Elephant in the Room
12-4	U.S. Soldiers Seek Asylum in Canada
12-4	Dollar's Fall Tests Nerve of Asia's Central Bankers
12-4	Evidence Obtained through Torture Is Usable, U.S. Asserts
12-4	Rumsfeld Admits Underestimating Iraq Task
12-4	Media in the Winter of Our "Disremorse"
12-4	Is this American?
12-4	Extinction for Hawaiian bird?
12-4	Toxic wildlife threatens health of Russian Inuit
12-4	U.S. Panel Recommends No Protection for Grouse
12-4	Proposed policy change would weaken sewage treatment
12-3	Fallouja Fight among Deadliest in Years for U.S. - Rich Kids Go to College, Poor Ones to Baghdad
12-3	Harness That Anger
12-3	Imperial State Security And The Global Justice Movement
12-3	Protestors Plan Big Anti-Nuclear Rally In New York
12-3	Coalition Seeks FBI's Files on Protest Groups
12-3	CIA Was Wary of U.S. Interrogation Methods in Iraq
12-3	Ex-NYPD Official To Succeed Ridge
12-3	Fundraising Records Broken By Both Major Political Parties
12-3	Danforth Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to U.N.
12-3	Pentagon experts have made a discovery: Muslims do not hate America's freedoms, but its policies
12-3	US Rules Out Dam Removal For Salmon Recovery
12-3	Michael Lind: "Americans Keep Moving to the Left"
12-3	Even Tiny Amounts Of Benzene Damage Body - Study
12-3	Would Jesus Ban This Ad?
12-3	Pinochet faces murder case probe
12-2	U.S. to Increase Its Force in Iraq by Nearly 12,000
12-2	Bush calls for new world order
12-2	Part II: Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf
12-2	Former Bush Campaign Official Indicted
12-2	5,000 Anti-Bush Protesters Scuffle With Police
12-2	FBI's translation scandal heats up; more whistle-blowers emerge
12-2	Worse Than Ashcroft
12-2	Brazil Amazon Deforestation Jumps, Data Show
12-2	Asia Irritated over U.S. Indifference to Dollar Fall
12-2	China Likely to Decide on GMO Rice in January
12-2	PR Meets Psy-Ops in War on Terror
12-2	Love One Another? Not on NBC, CBS
12-2	What Happened to Iraq's Oil Money?
12-1	Protesters, Police Gear Up for Bush Visit
12-1	Ridge, First Secretary of U.S. Security, Is Quitting His Post - Mr. Ridge's Red Alert Day - US grand organiser bows out
12-1	Reporters Walk Line Between Deference and Diligence in Quizzing Bush
12-1	Red Cross: Guantanamo Tactics 'Tantamount to Torture'
12-1	Environmental Crime Pays in Developing Countries, Says Study
12-1	Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
12-1	EPA Considers Human Testing to Assess Pesticide Safety
12-1	Moss Hunters Roll Away Nature's Carpet, and Some Ecologists Worry
12-1	Wildly fluctuating pandemic influenza fatality projections worry flu world
12-1	Builders Turn More Towards Environmentally-Friendly Products as Costs Fall
12-1	'The age of cheap oil is over'
12-1	A river and region face a toxic past
12-1	Breaking the Code of Silence