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U.S. Stocks Lose Ground Over Shutdown Worries

2013-09-28 21:31:32| Footwear - Topix.net

With anxiety over budget negotiations on Capitol Hill keeping buyers at bay, U.S. stocks fell Friday, with the S&P 500 index and the Dow suffering their first weekly drop since August.

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Drill, comrade, drill: Why the Kremlin's Arctic plan worries activists

2013-09-26 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: The way the Kremlin sees it, the vast treasures being revealed by the retreating Arctic ice oil, gas, iron ore, mineralsare Russia's manifest destiny, with Moscow writing a new chapter in the history of the desolate, once-frozen region. It's a narrative that hasn't had much challenge in Russia. But now, after a daring raid on a drilling platform by Greenpeace, the gunpoint arrest of 30 activists, and threatened charges of piracy and terrorism, environmentalists are hoping for scrutiny of how...

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Worries over job security 'falling'

2013-09-23 10:47:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Workers are less worried about losing their job than at any other time in the past four and a half years a survey suggests.

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Dust Bowl Worries Swirl Up As Shelterbelt Buckles

2013-09-10 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl ravaged crops and helped plunge the U.S. into an environmental and economic depression. Farmland in parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas disappeared. After the howling winds passed and the dust settled, federal foresters planted 100 million trees across the Great Plains, forming a giant windbreak - known as a shelterbelt - that stretched from Texas to Canada. Now, those trees are dying from drought, leaving some to worry whether another Dust Bowl might...

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