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• Real Estate 2010 — Will It Be Better?

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 154
  What about 2010? Where are we headed? Here are the views of one observer — someone who admittedly is not a trained economist, Nobel laureate, high-ranking government official, soothsayer or seer. Source: Real Estate 2010 — Will It Be Better?
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• The highs and lows of being an NRI (Flashback 2009)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Dec 25 (IANS) From suffering a surge in racist violence to being conferred the honour of a science Nobel, the Indian diaspora in 2009 lived out the highs and lows that come with being linked to a country that is rising on the world stage.Many of the thousands of Indians [...]
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• Poetry as an Organizing Tool? Oh , Yeah!

  
  Principled Profit — Authority: 118
  For the last 28 years, I’ve lived in or just outside Northampton, Massachusetts. About ten years ago, Northampton established the position of City Poet Laureate, with a two-year term. Until two years ago, the post was mostly ceremonial. The official poet would occasionally show up and read a poem to mark some event ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Tagore’s chair, teapot found in Bangladesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) A chair and a teapot that Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore used have been found in Bangladesh, over six decades after the poet’s death.Tagore enthusiasts, the department of archaeology and a museum dedicated to Tagore continue to receive memorabilia even as those in their custody are found ...
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• Copenhagen accord must get legally binding by 2010

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (ANI): Nobel laureate and U N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman, R K Pachauri opined here on Wednesday that if India does not get a legally binding agreement by the end of 2010, then it would be losing valuable time.Speaking at an event on the implications of the Copenhagen accord ...
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• Pravasi Bharatiya Divas set to get 1,500 delegates (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) From Jan 7-9, the next annual jamboree of overseas Indians - Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - is expected to see nearly 1,500 delegates, 14 chief ministers and seven ministers in foreign governments who are of Indian origin.With a number of new features, it will be formally inaugurated by Prime ...
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• 1,500 delegates expected at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Nearly 1,500 delegates are expected to participate in the eighth annual jamboree of overseas Indians, Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Jan 7-9, the government said Wednesday.With a number of new features, it will be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Jan 8, while President Pratibha ...
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• Nobel Laureate Ramakrishnan says bureaucracy, politics and red tape hampering India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Chennai, Dec 23 (ANI): Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has said that Indian scientists settled abroad wanted to come back to India, but were held back by the country’s red tapism.A US citizen of Indian origin, Ramakrishnan, along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for ...
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• Obama set to break Nixon’s record of 48 ‘Time’ cover appearances

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 22(ANI): US President Barack Obama looks set to break former President Richard M. Nixon’s record of 48 cover appearances on the prestigious Time magazine.With 24 covers after just his first year in office, Obama is on pace to triple Nixon’s total if he wins a second term, The New York Post ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Amartya Sen for curriculum review in primary education

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen feels there is an urgent need to review the curriculum at the primary level to make home task redundant and private tuition unnecessary.“There is an urgent need to review the curriculum at the primary level.“The children at the primary level have to ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Dalai Lama praises India’s support to exiles

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Dharamsala, Dec 18 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama Friday praised the Indian government for the support it has extended to the exiles, especially in providing modern education.“The Indian government has been of immense help to Tibetans in the past 50 years,” the Nobel laureate told reporters in ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech December 10, 2009 (Part 2 of 4)

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 143
  President Barack Obama delivers his Nobel Lecture after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway. Thursday, December 10, 2009. Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Part 4: www.youtube.comObama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech December 10, 2009 (Part 2 of 4) is a post from: Better World ...
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• Poetry Evening Featuring an Invented Poet Laureatesse

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 126
  By Laverne HuntAward-winning writer Michael Glover is a London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and magazine editor who has contributed regularly to The Independent, The Times, The Financial Times, The New Statesman and The Economist. He is also a London correspondent for ARTnews, New York. His new, on-line ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Amartya Sen wants India to accept some obligations at Copenhagen

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 17 (ANI): Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen hinted on the fact that India should accept some mandatory obligations at Copenhagen although it is a minor polluter.Addressing the inaugural session of ‘Ideas India-2009′ hosted by Aspen Institute India here on Thursday, Sen suggested that the country needs to ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Speech: What If?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  What if? What if Obama’s speech had not simply referenced Gandhi and King but followed them in following the way of Jesus? I have a number of friends, like Nobel Prize nominee John Dear and Ken Butigan, who have articulately raised concerns about…
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