Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise (AP)

February 28th, 2009 by admin

Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise
(AP)

Georgia Tanks pauses at the spot where her husband, Jimmy Tanks, was fatally shot during a vehicle repossession last year at their home in rural Halsell, Ala., Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. A repo man who is awaiting trial on a murder charge in Tanks' death says he fired in self defense. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP – Alone in his mobile home off a winding dirt road, Jimmy Tanks heard a commotion at 2:30 a.m. just outside his bedroom window: Somebody was messing with his car.

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AP: Mexico president wants to win drug war by 2012 (AP)

February 26th, 2009 by admin

AP: Mexico president wants to win drug war by 2012
(AP)

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. In the interview, Calderon rejected U.S. government reports that questioned whether the Mexican government is losing control of its territory to drug cartels.  (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP – President Felipe Calderon said Thursday he wants to win the war against the world’s most powerful drug gangs before his term ends in 2012, and disputed U.S. fears that Mexico is losing control of its territory.

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Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug (AP)

February 25th, 2009 by admin

Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug
(AP)

Vials to be used to collect urine samples. US researchers have made the first steps towards devising a urine test for detecting prostate cancer.(AFP/Ron Wurzer)AP – For the first time, leading medical groups are advising millions of healthy men who are regularly screened for prostate cancer to consider taking a drug to prevent the disease.

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Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug (AP)

February 25th, 2009 by admin

Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug
(AP)

Vials to be used to collect urine samples. US researchers have made the first steps towards devising a urine test for detecting prostate cancer.(AFP/Ron Wurzer)AP – For the first time, leading medical groups are advising millions of healthy men who are regularly screened for prostate cancer to consider taking a drug to prevent the disease.

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Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug (AP)

February 25th, 2009 by admin

Doctors back wider consideration of prostate drug
(AP)

Vials to be used to collect urine samples. US researchers have made the first steps towards devising a urine test for detecting prostate cancer.(AFP/Ron Wurzer)AP – For the first time, leading medical groups are advising millions of healthy men who are regularly screened for prostate cancer to consider taking a drug to prevent the disease.

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Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds (AP)

February 23rd, 2009 by admin

Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds
(AP)

A member of a group of a group of visiting environment ministers and other representatives from more than a dozen nations gazes up at the monumental rock towers rising from 1,500-foot-deep ice sheets near the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. The group flew in to the remote station to learn from international scientists about whether and how global warming may melt Antarctic ice, raising sea levels.(AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)AP – Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent’s ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic “big melt” from global warming.

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Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds (AP)

February 23rd, 2009 by admin

Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds
(AP)

A member of a group of a group of visiting environment ministers and other representatives from more than a dozen nations gazes up at the monumental rock towers rising from 1,500-foot-deep ice sheets near the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. The group flew in to the remote station to learn from international scientists about whether and how global warming may melt Antarctic ice, raising sea levels.(AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)AP – Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent’s ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic “big melt” from global warming.

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Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds (AP)

February 23rd, 2009 by admin

Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds
(AP)

A member of a group of a group of visiting environment ministers and other representatives from more than a dozen nations gazes up at the monumental rock towers rising from 1,500-foot-deep ice sheets near the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. The group flew in to the remote station to learn from international scientists about whether and how global warming may melt Antarctic ice, raising sea levels.(AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)AP – Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent’s ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic “big melt” from global warming.

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Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario (AP)

February 22nd, 2009 by admin

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario
(AP)

Icebergs in Vincennes Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory in January 2008. It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not been dire enough, top climate scientists warned Saturday.(AFP/POOL/File/Torsten Blackwood)AP – If we don’t deal with climate change decisively, “what we’re talking about then is extended world war,” the eminent economist said.

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Activists ‘shocked’ at Clinton stance on China rights (AFP)

February 21st, 2009 by admin

Activists ‘shocked’ at Clinton stance on China rights
(AFP)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles upon arrival at the airport in Beijing. Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.(AFP/POOL/Greg Baker)AFP – Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.

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