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• Students in China Set a New Simultaneous Bathing Record

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The China Daily has reported that over 10,000 students in China’s central Hubei province set a world record for simultaneous bathing in hot springs. The record-breaking event took place in seven hot springs in the city of Xianning, the paper said. The ceremony started with a show: students from local colleges ...
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• Solar power at the cost of coal?

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 425
  
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• More on Maj. Hasan

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  The Washington Post reports on a new line of investigation into US Army Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 others during a shooting spree at Ft. Hood, Texas. The article notes that some have alleged that Hasan was led to extremism by the imam at a Washington, DC area mosque he attended after ...
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• Employing Saudis

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Arab News reports that the Saudi government has hired 210K Saudis over the past five years. That’s good and bad. The country needs to find jobs for about that number every year, but at least the government isn’t trying to offer full employment through hiring in its own offices. Too often, developing countries ...
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• Saudi-Yemen Border Incidents Wrap-Up

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  The conflict on the Saudi-Yemen border seems to be finished. Saudi Gazette runs a release from the Saudi Press Agency, quoting King Abdullah’s remark that the Kingdom is strong enough to repel aggressors. Kingdom strong enough to deter aggressors: King RIYADH – King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy ...
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• WATCH OUT FOR…Ke$ha- “TiK ToK”

  
  Off The Charts — Authority: 131
  Introducing Ke$ha! Aka Kesha Rose Sebert. The 22-year-old is currently climbing the American charts with her single, “TiK ToK”. You can see the video above. Nice track, very fun and it’s fast becoming a smash hit in the US. You might recognise her name from her collaboration with rapper Flo Rida, where she ...
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• Spider-Man the Musical – a sticky web of financial woes

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 431
  A web of financial woes He can shoot webs, swing between buildings, and punch through brick walls, but Spider-Man’s fundraising powers are another story. Six years, tens of millions of dollars, and music by U2 have yet to bring the superhero to Broadway, where a planned musical is still short as much as $24 ...
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• Malik Hasan should get no sympathy for murdering U. S. soldiers

  
  Can I Just Finish My Waffle? — Authority: 420
  There is a lot of discussion about what motivated Hasan in his horrific actions  But….. Let’s just say that Major Malik Hasan was not a devout Muslim. Let’s just say he didn’t attend mosque with two of the 9/11 terrorists. Let’s just say he did not make postings trying to justify Muslim suicide bombings ...
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• Junior wranglers find refuge with black cowboys

  
  Beth's Blog — Authority: 154
  Boney D and Rabbit come from rough parts of Brooklyn, places that could be unfavorably compared to the Wild West. You wouldnt expect that theyd escape their environments at a rugged 25-acre ranch in nearby Queens, riding horses and hanging out with cowboys. "Ive seen a guy get shot dead, point [blank] range, right ...
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• Saudis Have $421 Billion Invested in US

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Arab News reports on the scale of American-Saudi business, citing the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s figures that the Kingdom has investments in the US of over $421 billion. It also notes that the US is the main trading partner with the Kingdom while the Kingdom is the 15th most important for the US. ...
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• Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 123
  It is just about 30 years since the wall around Iran went up. And it is a few days away from fully 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The Berliner Mauer had been up for more than a quarter century, and its surface facing east, grim gray , was a metaphor for life in the German Democratic Republic. On its ...
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• Where Are Those Tankers?

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  An interesting webpage which has suddenly burst upon the blogosphere: Marine Traffic uses current online mapping programs to track international shipping. I suggest you play around with it to get an idea of just how busy some ports—as the Gulf oil ports—are on any given day. The mapping is not complete, ...
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• Irony

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  President Obama has made General Casimir Pulaski, a Pole who fought for us in the Revolutionary War, an honorary citizen of the United States. In other words, a man who fought for our freedom has been honored by a man who is trying to take it away. Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen on Friday, ...
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• Route 66 artists life coming to an end

  
  Beth's Blog — Authority: 154
  For decades, Bob Waldmire lived on the "Mother Road," wandering the remnants of Route 66 in his orange VW bus and selling his intricate, India-ink artwork from Santa Monica, Calif., to Pontiac, Ill. Normally at this time of year, the Springfield native would be saying goodbye to family and returning to his homestead ...
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• Pointing Fingers

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  The tragedy that occurred at the US Army installation, Ft. Hood, dominates American media coverage, but it is also being reported in Saudi media. The facts, insofar as we know them at the moment, is that an officer, Muslim and of Palestinian descent, went mad and started shooting up the base. He killed 13 and wounded ...
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• American High School Students Saudi Visit

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Frequent commenter Qusay has his own blog. There, I found a video of the four American high school students who visited Saudi Arabia a few months ago. It seems they had a pretty interesting time.
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• Poverty in Saudi Arabia

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  I came across a web log, the other face of saudi arabia , that focuses on photographs of poverty in Saudi Arabia and offers views of the contrasts between the rich and the poor. I don’t know what the blogger’s purpose it, beyond his stated intent to show the poverty and misery that can be found in the country. He ...
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• Al-Watan Website Hacked

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Al-Watan Website Hacked&rft.aulast;=Burgess&rft.aufirst;=John&rft.subject;=Human Interest&rft.subject;=Political Development&rft.subject;=Religion&rft.subject;=Saudi Government&rft.subject;=Saudi Media&rft.subject;=Saudi Society&rft.source;=Crossroads ...
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• Phony Conservative Anti-Elitism, Revealed!

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 146
  From a new cover story on Sarah Palin by Weekly Standard hack Matthew Continetti,: Last week, when Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens, the vice president took aim at Sarah Palin. "The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin thinks the answer to ...
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• AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articl
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