Wildlife conservationist Alan Rabinowitz travels the world saving animals and their ecosystems -- fr...

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Wildlife conservationist Alan Rabinowitz travels the world saving animals and their ecosystems --
from Belize, where he set up the first ever jaguar sanctuary to now in Myanmar, where he's behind
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Eight years ago, Arizona Senator and presidential candidate John McCain had it all: the war-hero
biography, the rock-ribbed conservative credentials, and, most of all, the Straight Talk Express that
charmed
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When Nobel Laureate James Watson suggested in an interview recently that Africans are not as
intelligent as Caucasians, the backlash came quickly especially from the scientific community. nn
The same
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2. The stunning recent intelligence estimate, stating that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in
2003, was seen by many in Washington as a brush back pitch aimed at White House hawks. nn By
any measure,
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nClemens. Pettit. Tejada. Bonds: it's an All-Star lineup of a very different kind. These are the names
that former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announced yesterday, in New York, as part
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The Golden Compass, the movie based on Philip Pullman's international bestselling fantasy novels,
opened this weekend at number one at the box office -- but not without controversy. nn Conservative
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3. Americans dream of homeownership, and over the past few years many people thought they'd gotten
a piece of the pie. That is, until their subprime mortgages payments - many too low to
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Historian and mystery writer Jason Goodwin won a huge, international following when he invented
Investigator Yashim - the eunuch private eye to the Ottoman Sultan in his novel "The Janissary
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Oprah Winfrey hit the trail in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina this past weekend for
Barack Obama. In the first-ever election where a woman has a chance of becoming president, Hillary
Clinton is
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4. Perfection. Great athletes, star CEOs, and Nobel laureates embody it. Society celebrates those who
strive for it, who sweat the details, who don't settle for second best. nn But perfectionism,
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Pablo Picasso, titan of the art world, is almost as famous for his outsized life as his constantly
changing body of work. From the Blue and Rose periods to Cubism, classicism and abstraction,
Picasso
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Overshadowed by Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is too often forgotten. But for U.S. troops, it is just as
dangerous. nn In the mountainous terrain of eastern Afghanistan -- near the border with Pakistan's
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5. You know the news out of Iraq these days: the surge seems to be working, at least for now. Some
refugees are trickling back in. The U.S. military complains that Iraq's politicians aren't doing
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From Bali to the Beltway, our energy future may be coming on line right now. Energy and climate
bills are on the table in Congress, and a world summit in Bali is convening to hash out the Earth's
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Russians went to the polls yesterday and handed Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, a landslide
victory in the parliamentary elections. It came as no surprise -- for weeks, election watchers
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6. Republicans faced off last night in their first CNN/YouTube debate, and it got hot in a hurry. nn Mitt
Romney said he welcomed legal immigrants but Giuliani criticized Romney about his Massachusetts'
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There's a Great Leap Forward going on in molecular biology: scientists have figured out that our
genes are chock-full of ancient deadly viruses that once tried to wipe us out. nn Most do nothing,
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7. Tom Perkins, and the legendary venture capital firm he co-founded, has been a driving force in
Silicon Valley for over thirty-five years. Netscape, Amazon, Google -- some would say his firm built
the
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The last time Israelis and Palestinians sat down at an American conference table to talk peace --
seven long and bloody years public domain video series ago -- the Middle East was a different place.
nn But this time, as the old
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Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti released his first solo album in 1995 and since then it's been nothing but
up and up. nn He's played with Sinatra, toured with Sting, and recorded duets
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It feels like we've seen this before: US troops make progress in Iraq, while Iraq's political and ethnic
divide appears as vast as ever. nAnd yet something real has happened on the ground: the

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It's a classic story of the American century: the veteran returns from war, and hits the books on the
GI Bill to start a new life. nn Like other generations of G.I.s, Iraq War vets are entering
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The talk of war with Iran that's captivated Washington may be real, or it may be bluff. But there's no
doubt it presses the biggest question now hovering over the Middle East: Can the U.S
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Judith Jones has nurtured and published the biggest names in the cookbook business -- Julia Child,
Marcella Hazan, Claudia Roden and Marion Cunningham, to name a few. In the process, she has
helped start
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