News, Etc.

It's an anniversary to remember, no matter how hard one would like to forget: It is the two-year anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers, precipitating the current economic mess.
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Delaware Republicans seem hellbent on throwing away a Senate seat after all.

Another whackjob like Nevada's Sharron Angle is running for the Senate there.
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The IMF is "concerned" and "fearful" of social unrest because of the worldwide jobs crisis, a crisis it helped to create.
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In what is likely a first, and hopefully the last, a parked car at Crater Lake National Park plunged 1,000 feet into the caldera with the family dog inside.

The dog miraculously survived, but the car did not. Apparently the car's owners failed to use the parking brake.
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It's time to take a look at the Chinese education system. It is much different than ours, but if the neoliberals have their way, millions of students will be pushed out of education at the end of elementary or middle school.
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