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Mama Hilary hugs Iowa
and says “I” instead of “We”

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times says that in Hilary Rodham Clinton’s Iowa performance, she played herself. “She didn't have to prop up Bill after one of his roguish pratfalls. She didn't have to feign interest in East Wing piffle — table settings and pastry chefs and designer gowns. She didn't have to defer to her male colleagues in the Senate, stepping back to give them the limelight.” – 763 words.
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‘Almost all Brazilian cars have flex-fuel engines’
Hugo Chavez: Environmental
hypocrite or ecological Savior?

Nikolas Kozloff says, “During a recent trip to Venezuela, I found myself in my Caracas hotel room watching President Hugo Chavez give a speech on TV . . . As usual, Chavez was thundering against the United States, in this case striking an environmental theme. North Americans, he charged, had pursued an "egotistical" model of development. Chavez denounced the consumerist lifestyle in the United States, predicated on having more than one car per family. — 1,493 words.
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U.S. policy of isolating Iran was an error
Russia to challenge Bush on growing
U.S. military presence in Middle East

Tom Miles of Reuters says Russia expects the United States to explain its growing military presence in the Middle East when the countries next meet to discuss the region, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. — 639 words.
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The ideal of Brotherhood is lost
in battles over oil and gas prices

After Moscow and Kiev managed to settle their dispute over prices for Russian gas deliveries at the beginning of last year, a concerted effort was made by the Russian side to portray the whole imbroglio as an anomaly. But the New Year's holidays again brought another energy standoff — this time with Belarus over oil and gas prices — and the realization that showdowns between Russia and its closest neighbors over energy resources have likely become the normal state of affairs. — 1,123 words.
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Kremlin plays rough with Russia’s
10 million illegal immigrants

In the two weeks since the government imposed a quota of 40 percent on foreign workers at the country's markets, rows of empty stalls have appeared at markets across Moscow, while city officials and market administrators readily admit they are having a hard time filling the void left by migrant workers. With greater or lesser effect, it's a picture being repeated across the country. Proportionally, the largest exodus appears to be in the sparsely populated Far East, where hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Vietnamese traders are reported to be packing up and preparing to depart, leaving whole markets deserted. — 2,227 words.
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True North Canuck Fact of the Day

Hollywood British Columbia delivers big bucks

British Columbia is the third-largest film and television production centre in North America after New York and Los Angeles. So far this century an
average of more than 200 movies and TV shows have been shot in the province annually, injecting about $1 billion into the provincial economy.

Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. Visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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