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Are we the only one to note that in all the wailing and thunder over the President’s "Surge" speech, no one is even mentioning the two ton black elephant in the drawing room: What’s going to happen once we’re gone?
The Dowbrigade gets an uplifting sense of real national unity in this country these days, [...]
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LEAKING a sensitive government document can mean risking a jail sentence – but not for much longer if an online service called WikiLeaks goes ahead. WikiLeaks is designed to allow anyone to post documents on the web without fear of being traced.
The creators of the site are thought to include political activists and open-source software [...]
Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.
The stamps are on sale in China ahead of their [...]
How dominating is Tiger Woods’s lead in the world rankings? Consider that the 1,000th-ranked player in the world — Hsieh Chin-Sheng of Taiwan — is closer to No. 2 Jim Furyk (8.68 points behind) than Furyk is to Woods (11.17 behind).
from the Boston Globe Golf Notes
Tiger has reportedly converted a Korean War era aircraft [...]