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214 New Laws Take Effect Jan. 1, 2012
More than 200 new laws, covering everything from local library boards to murder, will take effect Jan. 1.
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Insight: Syria's Assad set for long conflict
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - With the enemy at the gates, Bashar al-Assad was dining out. The sound of gunfire and explosions carried to central Damascus as his troops clashed in the suburbs last Saturday with rebels who had seized towns near the capital. Masked gunmen erected checkpoints on the city outskirts. But Syria's 46-year-old president, outwardly unfazed, put on a show of business as usual for ...
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Time for local cities to reassess their own payrolls
Time for local cities to reassess their own payrolls
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The Short Rise and Unbroken Fall of the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange:
A Case for Its Revival.
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'Monster' symbolizes dept. problems
Meet the "Green Monster," a 5,000-pound forklift that, as its nickname suggests, has achieved almost mythic status as a symbol of what can go wrong in city government. Call it a civic Big Foot.
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Drug companies oppose bill to make them take back medicine
More than 200 organizations across the state -- law enforcement agencies, health departments, health care professionals, substance abuse prevention coalitions and environmental groups -- are joining forces to fight prescription drug abuse.
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With the enemy at the gates, Syria's Bashar al-Assad was dining out
Analysis: As his troops clashed with rebels who had seized towns near the capital last Saturday, Assad put on a show of business, dining at a restaurant in downtown Damascus
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Pyongyang to preserve Kim for posterity
SEOUL - There is little doubt about what is going to happen to late North Korea leader Kim Jong-il's body; there is an established tradition going back to the early days of the Soviet Union of what should be done.
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Target UK: Mysterious explosions on a country estate. Mortars trained on the Royal Box at the Derby. As British and U ...
The Iranian navy had recently carried out a war game designed to demonstrate its ability to block the Strait of Hormuz. The threat was explicit: if the West refused to lift their sanctions against Iran as part of its campaign against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, the Strait would be blocked.
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Iran nuclear threat: Top thriller writer Tom Cain imagines terrifying terrorist backlash
The Iranian navy had recently carried out a war game designed to demonstrate its ability to block the Strait of Hormuz. The threat was explicit: if the West refused to lift their sanctions against Iran as part of its campaign against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, the Strait would be blocked.
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