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Wheat farm - Agriculture - Food - Crop - Farming
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Food bill comes in for liberalization
By Aileen Kwa GENEVA - The high food prices that have sparked riots in parts of the developing world from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Haiti should come as no surprise.... (photo: Creative Commons / Victor Szalvay)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (ayt1)
Economy   Missouri   Obama   Photo		  Insurance Newsnet 
Republican National Committee: Why Does Obama Support Economic Policies That Are Bad For Missouri?
WASHINGTON, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Republican National Committee: Today In Missouri, Obama Will Hold An Economic Roundtable: "Democratic Presidential... (photo: AP Photo / Rick Bowmer)
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF JAN 27-28 ** FILE** The Mountaineer Wind Energy Center on Backbone Mountain near Thomas, W.Va., is shown in a July 9, 2003, file photo. West Virginia is one of the Appalachian states that have made strides in attracting wind-power developers. It has has one wind farm running and two proposed. A company is evaluating several sites in eastern Kentucky to find a home for a wind farm, in hopes of delivering electricity to roughly 65,000 homes within the next five years. (AP Photo/Dale Sparkshg3  The Business Review 
DOE report: Wind power can provide 20% of U.S. power needs by 2030
A new forecasting report from the asserts wind power could generate 20 percent of U.S. electricity needs by 2030. The scenario, "while ambitious, could be feasible if the significant... (photo: ap / Dale Sparks, File)
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Dunkin' Donuts  The Business Review 
Dunkin' Donuts to give away free iced coffee
Dunkin' Donuts will hold its second national Free Iced Coffee Day on May 15 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Canton, Mass.-based food chain said it expects to hand out nearly 4 million cups of iced... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Hewlett Packard - HP (rt1) The Business Review
Hewlett-Packard confirms $13.9B EDS acquisition
Tuesday said it will buy for about $13.9 billion in an all-cash deal expected to close in the second half of the year. Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE:HPQ) also posted earnings... (photo: WN)
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Dunkin' Donuts The Business Review
Dunkin' Donuts to give out free iced coffee
Dunkin' Donuts will hold its second national Free Iced Coffee Day on May 15 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Canton, Mass.-based food chain said it expects to hand out... (photo: WN / theresa)
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President George W. Bush thanks U.S. troops in Al Asad, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2007. Middle East Online
How will Bush be received in Saudi?
President George W. Bush will likely receive little more than a smile and handshake when he asks Saudi Arabia to help lower oil prices during a visit to Riyadh this week... (photo: DoD / D. MYLES CULLEN, USAF STAFF SGT)
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Tony Blair Middle East Online
Blair: Israel to ease some West Bank restrictions
JERUSALEM - Israel has agreed to remove some checkpoints across the occupied West Bank in a bid to ease Palestinian travel restrictions, Middle East Quartet envoy Tony... (photo: EC)
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US accepts Seoul's decision to stop beef imports if mad cow disease found�
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's president said today that Washington has accepted his government's plan to stop imports of US beef if any new case of mad cow disease breaks... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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Rice Restrictions in rice trade backfiring The Press Democrat
Final press conference, Commission President Jose Manuel BARROSO . ula1 China, EU leaders meet on trade tensions Orlando Sentinel
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FARM - CROPLAND - CROPS - PHILIPPINES FOOD Big Agri starts to wear black hats Globe and Mail
Plasma TV Beware protection garbed in green The Australian
JEEPNEY - TRANSPORTATION - PHILIPPINES Transport groups to hold strike; govt ready The Manila Times
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KLps1 - December06 - China - Chinese Yuan - Currency - Money - Reminbi. (ps1) 'Devalue' call undermines yuan true faith Asia Times
US Dollar - USD - Currency - Money - Forex. (ps1) Dollar stays flat ahead of Bernanke speech The Times Of India
GROCERY - SHOPPING - FOOD - SUPLIES - SUPERMARKET Price gap shrinks for Canadian shoppers Canada Dot Com
World Politics
Workers repair the Schwedagon Pagoda, which was damaged by cyclone Nargis in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 17, 2008. The junta said Friday that the official death toll from the storm has nearly doubled to 78,000 with 55,917 missing. Aid groups have said the toll is probably about 128,000, with many more deaths possible from disease and starvation unless help is provided quickly to some 2.5 million survivors Needed, available, but denied: the moral dilemma of forcing aid on Myanmar AOL
Former Taiwan Premier Frank Hsieh raises his hands in support of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party during a press conference, Monday, May 7, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan. DPP presidential candidates said Monday that Hsieh will head the independence-lean How best to stay off the middle road Taipei Times
Raul Castro Raúl Castro stirs Cubans' hope with consumer freedoms The Miami Herald
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INDIA-FARMER World's poor pay price as crop research is cut International Herald Tribune
KLps1 - October 07 - Jakarta,Indonesia - Gucci - Fashion House. (ps1) World's luxury brands at India's doorsteps The Times Of India
Tourism Slowdown in world economy hits tourism� Business Day
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