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Published by | By Brooke Shelby Biggs | Monday, April 3, 2006

Its hard to be a conspiracy theorist when you keep being proved right.

Scotland's Sunday Herald reveals the United States' future plans to engage in world-wide information warfare using everything from PDAs to cell phones, to the web.

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Published by Associated Press | By J.W. Elphinstone | Monday, April 3, 2006

Skyrocketing energy prices propelled ExxonMobil (XOM) to the top of the 2006 Fortune 500 list, and consigned Wal-Mart (WMT) to the No. 2 spot on the magazine's annual ranking of the nation's largest publicly traded companies.

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Published by The New York Times | By Edward Wyatt | Saturday, April 1, 2006

Some of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking have denounced a recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks Inc. that they say restricts makers of films and television shows using Smithsonian materials from offering their work to public television or other non-Showtime broadcast outlets.

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Published by Associated Press | By | Saturday, April 1, 2006

The coalition is urging consumers to pressure Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald's Corp. to support a campaign to boost wages for more than 3,000 Florida pickers. They're proposing a penny per pound increase in pay.

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Published by Inter Press Service News Agency | By Abdullah Dukuly | Friday, March 31, 2006

Liberia's newly-elected but cash-strapped government has begun to find ways that the U.N. sanctions can be lifted to allow the country to exploit its immense timber resources for the benefit of its war-ravaged people.

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Published by Houston Chronicle | By David Ivanovich | Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Federal auditors castigated Houston-based Halliburton Co. repeatedly for failing to control costs and adequately justify its billings when working to rebuild Iraq's southern oil industry, newly released documents show.

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Published by Nerve.com | By Justin Clark | Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Christian leader of megaplex Regal Cinemas is trying to shape what audiences see -- and don't see -- at the movies.

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Published by Reuters | By | Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Vietnam War veterans from the United States, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam gathered on Tuesday to call for more help for the victims of the Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. military.

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