Federal Reserve to gain power under plan - Washington Times

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60 years after Orwell wrote 1984 and was destroyed by the book, a chilling reminder that his sinister vision is almost reality | Mail Online

Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you - CNN.com

Poor farmers to guard Earth's crop riches - science-in-society - 13 June 2009 - New Scientist

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Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

EFF brief accuses DOJ of "backdoor wiretapping"

Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS (VIDEO)

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Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says - Markets * US * News * Story - CNBC.com

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In deploying an all-volunteer army to fight two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on prescription drugs to keep its warriors on the front lines. In recent years, the number of military prescriptions for antidepressants, sleeping pills, and painkillers has risen as soldiers come home with battered bodies and minds.

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Schoolyard Bullies and Three Card Monte are used to explain the current financial crisis.

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Two F-16 fighters were dispatched over Wisconsin Monday to track a single-engine plane that was believed stolen in Canada by a student pilot, authorities said. The incident caused the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison to be evacuated as a precaution.

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Does stress damage the brain? In the March 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry a paper by Tibor Hajszan and colleagues provides an important new chapter to this question.

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