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- Khan & Walker ? Shortwaves VI
- Iz & Diz ? Mouth (Brad Peep's remix for Friends)
- Highland ? Forsaken (Part 2)
- The Orb ? Centuries
- Dido ? Here With Me (Rollo's Chillin' With the Family mix)
- Saint Etienne ? The Way We Live Now
- �-Ziq ? Xolbe II
- Luomo ? Class
- Zzino ? Accelerate
- Zyon ? No Fate
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Iku Iku Byo
Growing numbers of Japanese women are afflicted with an illness that gives them orgasms virtually 24 hours a day. And with suggestions that it could be deadly, the women hardly know whether they're coming or going ... "When I got on the train one day, I could feel blood gushing toward a certain part of my body and it felt so good I almost let out a moan. It was sheer murder when everybody got pushed into the carriage."
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Numbers Game
Between 2 percent and 5 percent of Iraq's 27 million people have been killed, wounded or uprooted since the Americans invaded in 2003, calculates Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for International and Strategic Studies. "This is civil war," he said.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa
At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of labor" for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa's free trade with the West. The initiative will require Western companies doing business in some parts of Africa to own their workers outright ... "Full, untrammelled stewardry is the best available solution to African poverty, and the inevitable result of free-market theory," Schmidt told more than 150 attendees ... One conference attendee asked what incentive employers had to remain as stewards once their employees are too old to work or reproduce. Schmidt responded that a large new biotech market would answer that worry ... There were no other questions from the audience that took issue with Schmidt's proposal.See also...
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Hard To Make Ends Meet
In 1995, estates worth $20 million or more gave away 25.3 percent of their wealth; by 2004, that figure had dropped to 20.8 percent. At the same time, the percentage of $20 million-plus estates that gave nothing to philanthropy increased more than 5 percent, to a total of 47.7 percent. Think about it — more than half the families worth more than $20 million do not give a dime to charity of any kind.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
Two Party System
[US] President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, and Ronald Reagan’s was 35 percent. Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s lows were 28 and 23 percent, respectively ... Just 27 percent said a major reason the Democrats won was because they had better candidates.
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