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The Rich Keep Getting Richer as the World’s Billionaire List Grows – For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man. Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation”. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. In his new book, The Moral Landscape, will be published in October, 2010, he poses 12 questions and his answers to them.
Besides recently being crowned the world’s second-largest economy, China now has the dubious distinction of spawning the world’s longest traffic jam. And it’s all directly attributable to China’s voracious appetite for energy and automobiles.
A line of cars and trucks 60 miles long (100 kilometers) has snarled the road along the Beijing-Tibet 110 Expressway for the past nine days.
Soon after the start of the war, it became apparent to George Washington that the American Revolution would end prematurely because of lack of funds. The individual who would help finance the Revolution was born in 1740 to Portuguese Jews and his name was…..Haym Solomon.
Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than predicted, accelerating their march to the sea and adding to the rising ocean levels that threaten coastal communities worldwide.
There are so many death penalty cases where the conviction was a travesty of justice and the sentence given, “death” then becomes a crime against the constitution. This must be unacceptable in a free and democratic society. Instead of dealing with the hundreds of individual cases The Lang Report is offering this database provided by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Palm Inc stole the limelight at the Consumer Electronics Show by unveiling a new touch-screen phone and mobile operating system that doubled its share price overnight……that’s right…….DOUBLED OVERNIGHT! But investors may be celebrating too soon.
This story proves that anything having to do with Sarah Palin is of interest to the public.
Sherry Johnston, the 42–year old mother of Levi Johnston, the Wasilla 18-year-old who impregnated Bristol Palin, the daughter of Sarah Palin, was arrested yesterday and charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance.
The estimated population of the United States is 305,237,623 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $34,950.88. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.80 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Are you surprised? Times Square’s National Debt Clock, which has been tallying up money owed by the U.S. government since 1989, is running out of spaces.
Here are 450 things that proponents of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution never realized. This list is not new and tends to always cause a lot of controversy whenever it is discussed. You decide just how valid the claims are.
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