Letters: Afghan end game
The Guardian, Thursday 20 December 2012 21.00 GMT In your advance report of the prime minister's welcome decision to speed up withdrawal from Afghanistan (4,000 British troops to leave Afghanistan...
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View ArticlePoll: Obesity’s a crisis but we want our junk food
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View ArticleCouple reunited with 1940s love letters
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View ArticleSam Carter, Brent Curnow Resign From Boulder Police Department After Mapleton...
Two Boulder Police officers turned in their letters of resignation Tuesday following their arrest last week for their involvement in the shooting of a bull elk in Boulder's Mapleton...
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View ArticleLove letters from Georgia O’Keeffe
The love letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz number upwards of 25,000. It’s such a prolific amount, it makes you marvel that they had any time at all to live the lives they did. The first...
View ArticleFailing health feared for Gitmo inmates on hunger strikes
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View ArticleNASA brings stargazers down to earth, disputing Voyager 1 success
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View ArticleWindows open: Microsoft reveals tens of thousands of users data disclosed
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View Article‘Hunger strikes instead of justice’: Lawyers still denied access to Gitmo...
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View ArticleBrickbat: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Gloom of Night
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View ArticleAmerica’s new ‘digital public library’ brings millions of documents online
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View ArticleRicin: The KGB and white supremacists’ favorite toxin
While it’s never been as popular among evildoers as anthrax or other biological agents, ricin, the toxin believed to be contained in at least three letters sent to officials in Washington this week,...
View ArticleFertilizer Plant Explosion Rescues Continue, Washington Marijuana Sales...
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