Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC

When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.

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Administration Attacks Trade Barriers

The Bush administration on Friday accused 62 trading partners including China and the European Union of erecting unfair trade barriers against American exports.

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A story of passive resistance and persistant defiance to keep a small measure of human dignity in this Palestinian community:

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3 Key Reasons Why You Might Never be Happy (Poll)

We talk about happiness every day of our lives in our elusive search for it. We see happiness as something external we can just pluck out of nowhere when we want it, just call it up when we want to have a better day. Sometimes happiness seems to affect everyone else except us.

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The Power of Habits to Rob You of Confidence - What are yours like?

We know that the three pillars of personal confidence are our sense of achievement, belonging and self-esteem. If we do not feel we belong, or have achieved enough, our self-esteem tends to suffer.

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The GI Bill was a big idea. Seven million young men who might otherwise not have had the opportunity for post-high school education received college and vocational training paid for by Uncle Sam

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"Magal Security Systems Ltd., the Israeli builder of barriers to stop suicide bombers in its home country and in Iraq, may buy an analytic-video company as it seeks to double revenue in as little as four years.

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Jackie Robinson, First Black President Obama Break Color Lines, Share Parallels

In January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States.

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Berlin - Doors are to be knocked in a metre-thick wall that has divided the Catholic and Protestant communities in the church of the German town of Mosbach for 300 years, church officials said Thursday.

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"Lesbian women may be at greater risk for developing certain types of cancer than heterosexual women, while often encountering barriers to health care and social services not typically experienced by straight women.

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Reclaiming Ownership

It is one of the greatest risks of living in a capitalistic society: where money is the presumed basis for happiness, each person grows up implanted with a susceptibility to marketing.

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The good folks of Augusta, Maine, have a very pretty bridge over the Kennebec River that is about to become much less pretty. The reason is that some believe the Memorial Bridge is a magnet for suicide. A barrier, soon to be installed by the state, should save lives.

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TUCSON, Ariz — Federal officials will begin installing steel pole barriers this month to stop drug and migrant smugglers from driving through what have been high-traffic corridors along sections of the Mexican border in Arizona and New Mexico.

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