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An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern plains and causing treacherous roads, closed schools and hundreds of canceled flights.
The White House is announcing that the first family will travel to national parks in the West next week.
Schoolchildren crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness and longing carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who passed through the "Ellis Island of the West" decades ago.
Sales of previously occupied homes in the Western United States climbed in February, as low mortgage rates and cheap foreclosed properties drew in many first-time buyers and investors, according to two reports released Monday.
A winter storm blanketed California with heavy rain and snow on Monday, forcing the temporary closure of major highways and the cancellation of the final round of a national golf tournament.
Climate change will likely shuffle some of the West's most troublesome invasive weeds, adding to the burden faced by farms and ranchers in some areas and providing opportunities for native plant restoration in others, according to a new study.
Sales of existing homes in the Western U.S. rose last month from a year ago, fueled primarily by buyers in a few states snatching up sharply discounted foreclosed homes, according to two reports released Tuesday.
Flights resumed in and out of Las Vegas, but schools and highways were closed Thursday after a record-setting snowfall coated marquees on the Strip, weighed down palm trees and blanketed surrounding mountain areas.
California took a pounding Monday from a powerful storm that collapsed the roof of a trade school, made roads treacherous and forced residents from homes out of fear of mudslides from fire-stripped hillsides.
Sales of existing homes jumped dramatically in the Western region in October as buyers scooped up deals on foreclosed homes and other bargains, according to two reports Monday.
The crackle of gunfire at night makes sleep all but impossible along Georgia's border with separatist Abkhazia, feeding the fears of so many here that the war they hoped was over may be erupting anew.
A new Western regional plan to cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions faces a tough road in state legislatures, where the details still must be worked out.
Americans have trekked West in search of riches for more than 150 years — and Barack Obama is doing the same.
Two iconic pieces by turn-of-the-century artist Charles M. Russell — a painting depicting a stagecoach holdup and a bronze sculpture of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt — have sold at an auction for more than $9 million.
Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds.
An avalanche swept a group of five snowmobilers several hundred feet down a northwest Washington mountain, killing two, authorities said.
The owner of a fast food joint in Montana's booming oil patch found himself outsourcing the drive-thru window to a Texas telemarketing firm, not because it's cheaper but because he can't find workers.
DAWN.COM | World | Thirty years on, Mecca mosque siege reverberatesRIYADH: Thirty years ago, as tens of thousands of hajj pilgrims were completing dawn prayers inside Mecca, gunshots pierced the sanctity of the Grand Mosque.
Keeping Afghanistan Safe From DemocracyThe most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
Walkom: Afghanistan sacrifices may have been in vain - thestar.comWhere does the war in Afghanistan go? My sense is that it is finally beginning the long and drawn-out process toward an inglorious end. For Canada, this would mark the finish of the longest – and the least considered – war that this country has ever fought.
Key facts to keep in mind while opposing war against IranAs we prepare for a barrage of anti-Iranian media spin, it would be good for anti-war activists to remember five basic facts: One: There is absolutely no evidence that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
Is There a Science to Beauty?"He look-a like a man." Remember Ms. Swan? Mad TV's maybe-Korean, maybe-Icelandic, slightly androgynous nail technician played with adroit cultural ambiguity by Jewish-American actress Alex Borstein? Ms.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Racism' claims at Lebanon beach clubsRacism overall in Lebanon, not just at the beach clubs. New law maybe on the way to outlaw discrimination, we'll see. These maids and labourers need protection from abusive employers. Like at the end of the article says:
Four people in Western Isles have suspected swine flu4 people are feared to have swine flu in the Western Isles of Scotland
Lacy Threads and Leather Straps Bind a BusinessKARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan, a flogger is known only as the Taliban's choice whip for beating those who defy their strict codes of Islam.
Isn't the Western society so weird? It claims there is no difference between guys like Alexander the great and these third gender (Queer/ gay) males that were known as Catamites in the olden days, because, as they both like men.
Swimmer missing amid fears of shark attack - National - smh.com.auA suspected shark attack victim's son was swimming just six metres away when his father was attacked and presumed killed off a southern Perth beach this morning.
The Western classification of humans beings, especially males into 'masculine heterosexual males' on one hand and everything else into 'queer' as LGBT, denotes the power structure in control in the West.
Saudi Gazette - Arab youth optimism excels Western peersArab youths are considerably more optimistic about the future than are their Western peers, according to the first ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey commissioned by ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller, the leading public relations consultancy in the Middle East.
This is what I wrote in response to a remark about how straight men always hold hands in public as show of their masculine behaviour, while men hardly ever hold hands with women in public, and that it would be nice if that could happen too:
The concept of 'sexual orientation' invented in the modern West requires a highly artificial society to make any sense.
Straight Men in heterosexualized spaces consist of the following: All of the following have significant to exclusive sexual attraction for men, although most will never ever acknowledge it.
It is now time that westernized, heterosexualized societies started paying attention to real men's gender rights and gender health issues.
Clash of Super Powers in an Age of Global ConflictThis article describes a rather unique relationships between today's financial crisis and the numerous wars.
There are only three kinds of humans: Men, women and third gender. And they all have their respective social spaces.
The concept of sexual orientation in general and homosexuality in particular, allows the Western society to keep an 'open' facade about things sexual, and at the sametime mess up extensively from behind the scenes, with the definitions, identities and spaces they have created -- …
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FILMS WERE SELECTED BASED ON THE 50 ELIGIBLE FILMS FOR THIS YEARS AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE LIST FOR THE TOP TEN WESTERN FILMS. THEY ARE ALSO ONLY BASED ON FILMS I HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN.
Drilling Wilderness Won't Bring Cheap GasAs Americans struggle with high prices at the pump, one thing is certain: a rush to drill in Alaska or on Western public lands will not bring down the price of gas. Unfortunately, it will needlessly sacrifice wilderness and wildlife.
Pride and prejudice the Australian way - National - Home - brisbanetimes.com.auThe Quranic Society had sought permission to rezone land for a $19 million, 1200-student Islamic school.
Imagine that we - and by we I mean Western and European Culture - could take back Colombian contact with the New World in 1492, that we could click "undo" on the destruction of native cultures and civilizations, centuries of slavery, of exploitation, and of colonization.
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