By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING | Sat May 26, 2012 4:07am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has gone missing, a lawyer said on Saturday, days after he fled his village in northeastern…
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Brother of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng goes missing, lawyer says - @Reuters http://t.co/3gDR8Ksr
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RT @BreakingNews: Brother of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng goes missing, lawyer says - @Reuters http://t.co/OX0M3gE3
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A bereaved wife lies near her husband's coffin as a Marine stands his post. Todd Heisler's image of Katherine Cathey continues to stir military and veteran wives seven years after it was taken.
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@ezraklein
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RT @maddow: If you have Memorial Day off on Monday, read this before you leave for the weekend: http://t.co/dLL335ZA
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RT @cjchivers: As Memorial Day Nears, an Image That Continues to Haunt: http://t.co/MVAhPr5b (On the life of a photograph by @hieslerphoto)
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Remember Todd Heisler's photo of pregnant Marine widow Katherine on an air mattress in front of her husband's coffin? http://t.co/X2B7YiPD
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At War Blog: As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt: A bereaved wife lies near her husban... http://t.co/wCGpfQl4
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Animal Planet Mermaids: The Body Found The film, on Animal Planet, will be shown on Sunday night at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time. As if we didn’t have enough probably fictitious but…
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Television Review : ‘Mermaids: The Body Found,’ on Animal Planet: The film “Mermaids: The Body Found,” on Animal... http://t.co/GqDxKdQ8
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A day after the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station and made aerospace history, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit was the first man inside the cargo-filled vessel. His first reaction? “The smell…
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RT @mashable: WATCH: Astronauts open the hatch of SpaceX Dragon for the first time in this historic video - http://t.co/QPzOsWcd
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Could it happen now? Could someone sinister pluck a small child off that same street at that same hour on the same day, so that he vanished into the ether for 33 years? It was…
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NYT captures Prince St. today, except not a new Apple store - it's been temp. closed for renovations: http://t.co/eTRoFyt8
The doors to a Boeing 777 used to be the gateway to adventure. Now when you get on a plane, it's more like the moment of truth -- for your wallet. The airlines are adding on…
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Allegiant Air will start charging between $10-$30 to store carry-on bags in overhead compartments http://t.co/WuZ6C4UM
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RT @nightline: Allegiant Air will start charging between $10-$30 to store carry-on bags in overhead compartments http://t.co/7zK0Pydw
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The Nobel Prize-winning professor of economics talks to Martin Wolf about what Japan got right, what the Federal Reserve got wrong and how the eurozone can be saved I enter the Landmarc restaurant, at the…
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Martin Wolf says Paul Krugman writes very fast, eats very slowly. Lunch with the FT: http://t.co/5R38dSpQ
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“@davidmwessel: Martin Wolf says Paul Krugman writes very fast, eats very slowly. Lunch with the FT: http://t.co/I9hJdFQh”
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Spain will pump $24 billion into troubled lender Bankia, effectively nationalizing the country's third-largest bank. Meanwhile, S&P downgraded it and four other Spanish banks.
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S&P lowered the credit rating of five Spanish banks as Bankia plans to ask Spain for 19 billion. http://t.co/LTdVQHtL
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Breaking: S&P lowered the credit rating of five Spanish banks as Bankia plans to ask Spain for 19 billion. http://t.co/GlWiKass
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Martin Forman/ZooKeys via Sci-News.com Loureedia Annulipes, the genus of spider named after Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed Velvet Underground rocker Lou Reed is taking a crawl on the wild side. A new genus of spider…
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RT @noahWG: Spider named after Lou Reed. To be known as "Loureedia": http://t.co/eUuQazLE cc: @BrettAndersonTP @dansaltzstein
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A 36-year-old North Dakota woman who married herself in a commitment ceremony last March has now spoken about her self-marriage choice in an interview with Anderson Cooper. The marriage took place among friends and family…
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Endemic typhus is transmitted by fleas KTLA News8:42 p.m. PDT, May 25, 2012 SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A warning to residents in Santa Ana after a man contracted typhus from a flea earlier this…
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In Apple's eye, the U.S. government has cast its lot with monopolies. Apple's legal response to the Department of Justice lawsuit, which the company filed May 22, claims that the case against Apple and other…
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Apple says Department of Justice "sides with monopoly": In Apple's eye, the U.S. government has cast its lot w... http://t.co/6rtY7KX7
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Unofficial Apple - Apple says Department of Justice "sides with monopoly" http://t.co/nbqqlHAi
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Children among scores of people reportedly killed in Homs province, as UN chief calls violence "unacceptable".
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The Vatican has confirmed the arrest of a non-clerical staff member on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to an Italian journalist.
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Man arrested in Vatican documents leak: The Vatican has confirmed the arrest of a non-clerical staff member on s... http://t.co/7AL8WkJv
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May 26, 2012 03:27:04 GMT
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เมื่อ 10.27 ตามเวลาไทย เกิดแผ่นดินไหวขนาด 5.0 บริเวณ north Svalbard ที่ความลึก 10.00 ก... http://t.co/Bg3pgSL9 #paipibat.com
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