Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Pennsylvania Sun.com http://www.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:28:09 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:28:09 -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.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256143/cs/1/ Proposed NSW planning guidelines allow anyone with a residence within two kilometers to veto a wind power project, but not coal seam gas. State planning minister Brad Hazzard released draft ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266002/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:40:44 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266002/ The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266008/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266008/ If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266009/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:43 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266009/ The right response to the lingering malaise in housing is to keep trying to persuade banks to take some short-term losses to minimize the long-term cost of the housing ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267644/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:45 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267644/ Zev Yaroslavsky is seen listening to speakers at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting about various supervisorial redistricting ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267645/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:43 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267645/ Last week, a Haitian judge ruled that former dictatorJean-Claude Duvaliershould not stand trial for human rights abuses - not for lack of evidence but because the statute of limitations had expired. ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267646/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:41 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267646/ By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government last week showed its determination to maintain improved ties with New Delhi, defying public anger over the ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267638/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:42:00 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267638/ By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury DHAKA - Prime Minister Hasina's Awami League government is pushing through construction of a 1,320-megawatt coal-fired power plant, the country's largest, in ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267637/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:59 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267637/ By M K Bhadrakumar If a date needs to fixed marking the end of "post-Soviet era" in world politics, it might fall on February 4, 2012. Russia and China's double veto of the Arab ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267636/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:58 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267636/ Syria and those 'disgusting' BRICS By Pepe Escobar A Greek choir of the "disgusted" and the "outraged" predictably greeted BRICS members Russia and China double ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267635/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:57 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267635/ By Melody Kemp One of the first indications that change was afoot in Myanmar came when President Thein Sein announced last year the suspension of the China-backed, US$3.6 billion Myitsone dam ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267640/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:55 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267640/ By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius last week that he believed Israel was likely to attack Iran between April and ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267639/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:55 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267639/ By Neeta Lal DELHI - India's liberals are crying foul after a book launch by acclaimed Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin was cancelled in Kolkata, West Bengal, following protests from ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267641/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:53 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267641/ Gold and bonds as options on the inflation rate By Spengler Investors generally misunderstand gold. It is not a hedge against inflation, not, at least, against the sort of inflation we see in ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267642/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:52 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267642/ By Farkhad Sharip As a part of Lukoil's incessant attempts to consolidate its presence in the energy sector of Central Asia, on January 17, the Russian company's board of executives ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267643/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:41:51 -0500 Asia Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267643/ My wife had her first mammogram last month. There was a spot on the image. The doctor wanted a closer look. So, a few days later, she had an ultrasound. She is fine. But in the moments between ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264299/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:02:34 -0500 St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264299/ Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney. When Mitt Romney stated that he is "not concerned about the very poor," this ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264254/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:28 -0500 Deseret News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264254/ I have noticed recently that the tea party group is going to spend a lot of money to try and unseat and defeat Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election. I support many of the things that the tea party ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264256/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:23 -0500 Deseret News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264256/ With the Florida primary behind us, pundits are now pouring through its exit polls to come up with numbers to tell us where Mitt Romney's strengths and weaknesses lie. Pollsters are doing the ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264257/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:22 -0500 Deseret News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264257/ To the Editor: Re "In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U. S.," by Dana Frank (Op-Ed, Jan. 27): http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266305/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:27:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203266305/ I f we didn’t have enough to worry about on the subway from catching the flu to dealing with a likely fare hike, along come amateur paparazzi to deal with. A company of pests promises to ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265696/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:19:01 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265696/ Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264251/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:24 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264251/ Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264250/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:21 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264250/ Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264252/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:09 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203264252/ By court order, Occupy Pittsburgh must get off BNY Mellon Green by today, but while many of the tents were removed Sunday, it was not clear whether all of the protesters would be gone. Matt ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265692/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:04 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265692/ Just as the state Supreme Court is stepping into the modern era by tweeting its rulings and allowing TV broadcasts of some sessions, its rules panel wants to take a big step backward. The Criminal ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265691/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265691/ The Congressional Budget Office has not been in the habit of handing out valentines, and so it was last week when it offered its latest annual outlook on the federal government's economic ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265693/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265693/ At the height of his popularity in the early 1970s, "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was more influential as far as young people were concerned than Congress, the president or the press. ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265694/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265694/ At Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama delivered a fascinating address, pointing out the shared values of the world's major religions while constantly ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265695/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:05:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203265695/ For more than two years, people in Utah and Washington have followed the saga of Susan Powell's disappearance, hoping for some good news. It never came. Now we have seen the most horrific and ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262862/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:56:41 -0500 Deseret News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262862/ If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262858/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:38:51 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262858/ To the Editor: http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267347/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:23:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267347/ In a better world - specifically, a world with a better policy elite - a good jobs report would be cause for unalloyed celebration. In the world we actually inhabit, however, every silver lining ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267633/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:15:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267633/ WHEN the United States announced last week that its combat troops in Afghanistan would be withdrawn by mid-2013, there was obvious relief. But it was followed by familiar concerns. http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267634/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:11:48 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267634/ President Obama usually deserves high marks for his efforts to curb the spread of dangerous nuclear technology. But his administration's decision not to insist on an important nonproliferation ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267632/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:07:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203267632/ Egyptian citizens have accused the police and military of failing to intervene on February 1 to stop clashes at an Egyptian football match that killed at least 74 people. Dozens of angry protesters ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203261633/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:25:45 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203261633/ Cutting the working day to a maximum of seven hours, eliminating subcontracted work and raising maternity leave to a period of five months were some of the proposals put forward by thousands of ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203261843/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:25:44 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203261843/ New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) rushes for a touchdown in front of New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo (51) during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game, ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262611/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:42:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203262611/ 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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259192/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:54 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259093/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:53 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257557/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:13 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257556/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:09 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257558/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:04 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257559/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:59 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259034/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:32:30 -0500 USA Today http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203259035/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:28:17 -0500 USA Today http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258710/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:27:51 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257795/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:01:21 -0500 The Guardian http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257795/ 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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257560/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:51:13 -0500 USA Today http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257560/ On ReligionFaith. Religion. Spirituality. ... http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257561/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:49:09 -0500 USA Today http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257546/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:45:33 -0500 USA Today http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203258709/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:42:20 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257375/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:51:41 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203257374/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:05:58 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256391/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:06 -0500 Times of India http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256392/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:03 -0500 Times of India http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256393/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:06:52 -0500 Times of India http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203256394/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255292/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:11:26 -0500 CBS News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255290/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:19 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255289/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:18 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203255291/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:58:17 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254087/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:29:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203254070/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:37:12 -0500 CBS News http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252944/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:34:21 -0500 News-Review http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251629/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:33:33 -0500 NPR http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251627/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:32 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251628/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:30 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252943/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252942/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252941/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203252940/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:41:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203251214/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:08:11 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203250406/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:03:13 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248467/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:35:24 -0500 WLOX http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247578/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:19 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248479/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:18 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247599/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:59:02 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247600/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:56 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247601/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248471/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:58 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248472/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:53 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248473/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:46 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248474/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:42 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248478/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:37 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:56:34 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248477/ 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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247597/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:04 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247598/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:01 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248470/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248469/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203248468/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246015/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:32 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246924/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:31 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246206/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:30 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247367/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:29 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246169/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:27 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203247368/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:26 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.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.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:30:24 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.pennsylvaniasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203246246/