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/ 12 November 2007
The Bush administration took a hard line last week on United States diplomats resisting postings to Iraq, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the US ambassador in Baghdad issued blunt reminders of their duty to serve anywhere in the world.
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/ 31 October 2007
For a room in which one of the most astonishing experiments in modern science is being conducted, the laboratory in the J Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is understated. It is divided into wooden workstations reminiscent of a school science lab. There are stacks of glass test tubes and pipettes, and one wall is lined with air-controlled boxes containing Petri dishes, writes Ed Pilkington.
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/ 14 September 2007
You may have heard of Jonathan Safran Foer but, asks Ed Pilkington, what about Nell Freudenberger and Rattawut Lapcharoensap?
It is a party trick well known to curious teenagers across the United States. Zoom down on Washington via Google Earth and you get an extraordinary eagle-eyed view of the world’s greatest powerhouse. There’s the White House and its West Wing. Sweeping south-east across the Potomac you soar above the Pentagon. But there is one thing you can’t do.
It’s not easy being a nemesis. Particularly if your opponent is Michael Moore. Jim Kenefick has spent years trying to expose the documentary maker’s "deceptions and half-truths" through his website, Moorewatch.com, under the mantra: "Watching Michael Moore’s every move."
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/ 24 January 2007
Books are now being customised and marketed for specific retail outlets, such as hardware stores and delicatessens, reports Ed Pilkington in New York.
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/ 17 November 2006
From Madonna’s <i>English Roses</i> to Gloria Estefan’s Noelle’s <i>Treasure Tale</i>, Ed Pilkington brings out the best and worst of celebrity books for kids.
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/ 13 November 2006
We may be at a green tipping point — but not everyone’s got the memo yet. The following products are so ungreen that they deserve the title "eco-nasties". Air "freshener" is a stupid idea, and this one, called "Baby after bath", smells like a box of perfumed nappy sacks. But let’s not worry about the perfume, even though, according to the label, it "may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment".
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/ 30 October 2006
At this time of week Pastor Russell Johnson begins sharpening his pencil. He’s got two more sermons to write before the mid-term elections on November 7, and he’s got a job on. Up to 3 200 worshippers will turn up for prayer over next two Sundays at his Fairfield Christian Church in Lancaster, Ohio, that looks like the factory. It is, a factory of Christian conservatism.