BC Liberal leader Christy Clark. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan HaywardPolitical buffs like me look for trends in elections and lately they’ve been depressing, like the shrinking voter turnout in national and provincial polls. So here’s some good news in the political trend department: Just over a third of the people elected to the B.C. legislature in [...]
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By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its “Glass” wearable computer during this week’s developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere – including to the crowded bathrooms. Google Glass, [...]
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Newark, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven’t typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment. But with poaching raging out of control in several areas of the world, that may be changing. “There is a growing sense of urgency about what’s going on in the environment,” Todd Clear, dean [...]
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Jakarta (ANTARA) – Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi kembali memeriksa Bendahara Umum DPP Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) Mahfudz Abdurahman, perihal kasus tindak pidana korupsi dan pencucian uang terkait kuota impor daging sapi di Kementerian Pertanian. Mahfudz yang tiba di gedung KPK Jakarta pada Senin sekitar pukul 09.40 WIB itu tergesa-gesa memasuki gedung KPK dan enggan menjawab pertayaan [...]
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean coast. With the regime scoring gains on the battlefield, the [...]
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Liputan6.com, Paris : Tak main-main hasrat klub kaya dan jawara Ligue 1 di musim ini, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), untuk mendapatkan tanda tangan pemain bintang Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo. Untuk membujuk mantan ikon Manchester United tersebut mau berlabuh ke Parc des Princes, Les Parisiens, julukan PSG, diklaim bersedia menyodorkan proposal gaji bersih (di luar pajak) sebesar [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday. Such an acquisition would be Marissa Mayer‘s largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic [...]
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Left to right: Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times; Eric Michael Johnson for The New York Times; Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it’s the old parental [...]
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When the new Busch Stadium opened in 2006, the occasional mudhole along adjacent property symbolized the failure of a planned companion project aimed at revitalizing downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis Cardinals had proposed the $ 650 million mixed-use project, known as Ballpark Village, for the 10 acres north of the new stadium. But those [...]
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