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A nightmare interrupted: Home foreclosure is postponed
May 12, 2009OAKLAND, Calif. -- When does keeping a promise turn into a nightmare? When it involves a home whose price has ballooned beyond reason, a realtor who fails to make loan terms clear, and a lender who...
Read moreLabor, allies vow Never Again, one year after Postville immigration raid
May 12, 2009POSTVILLE, Ia. — The people of this town will never forget what happened here a year ago, today. At first, there was confusion. There were so many helicopters in the sky and, one by one, they...
Read moreAtlantis Astronauts heading for Hubble Space Telescope
May 12, 2009Originally posted on WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) — The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Monday with seven-member crew onboard from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on a mission to upgrade the 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope...
Read moreHealth industry goes to White House: real reform or pre-emptive strike?
May 12, 2009Representatives from the nation’s biggest corporate health lobbies, in a White House meeting with President Obama today, offered up a plan to voluntarily reduce health care costs by as much as $2 trillion over 10 years....
Read moreVietnam celebrates Dien Bien Phu anniversary
May 12, 2009On May 7 Vietnam celebrated the 55th anniversary of its decisive victory over U.S.–backed French colonialist forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War. At Dien Bien Phu City in mountainous...
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