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/ 13 October 2009
A banner year for female Nobel laureates highlights incremental but steady progress for women in science’s mostly male bastions, say experts.
US lawmakers are vowing quick action against Iran following a report that weapons experts believe Tehran has the know-how to build an atomic bomb.
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/ 23 November 2006
The battle of the bulge has become a new rallying cry for several United States politicians who have made their personal fight against obesity central to their politics. At a time of no-holds-barred negative campaigning, analysts said the public often is looking for a positive, feel-good political message.
Tom DeLay rose from humble beginnings as the owner of a Texas pest control business to become known as ”The Hammer” — one of the most successful and feared politicians in the United States. DeLay rose to become the Republican leader in the House of Representatives and a key powerbroker in any decision in the US Congress, until a Texas prosecutor threw a spanner into the political works.
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/ 17 February 2006
United States Vice-President Dick Cheney badly handled a damage limitation exercise after accidentally shooting a hunting partner and could now become a case study for future politicians, experts said. ”It will be studied as one of the big ones — an example of how a modest mishap goes completely out of control,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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/ 30 September 2005
Democrats in Congress, who have steadily lost ground against governing Republicans in recent voting, are hoping that mounting ethics scandals will prompt voters to defect from United States President George Bush’s Republican party, with the 2006 election looming.
The United States military official tasked with running the Guantánamo Bay detention camp on Wednesday rejected calls by critics to close the facility, saying it continues to yield vital ”actionable intelligence” in the US-led war on terror.
The United States military official tasked with running the Guantánamo Bay detention camp on Wednesday rejected calls by critics to close the facility, saying it continues to yield vital ”actionable intelligence” in the US-led war on terror.
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/ 28 October 2003
Howard Dean may or may not emerge as the Democrats’ choice to face off against Bush next year, but he already has had a huge impact on the way US political campaigns are financed and run. But Dean has rocketed past his Democratic competitors in fundraising by collecting millions of dollars in small donations.
A marauding invader, with a voracious appetite and seemingly supernatural powers, aroused fears from the moment its presence in the United States first became the subject of news headlines and local television broadcasts.