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...Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits...
...places are, Lady Bird has probably been there herself. Though she never gained the reputation that Eleanor Roosevelt had for popping up in unlikely spots, she has traveled some 200,000 miles at home and abroad in five years as First Lady. This week she is completing a final coast-to-coast trip covering 6,071 miles in 96 hours, taking her to New Orleans, Cape Kennedy and the California redwood forests. Before leaving, she welcomed 54 new U.S. citizens in the first naturalization ceremony ever held in the White House. The group ranged from an eight-year-old Filipino...
...Tidewater was founded here a little more than 50 years ago, and kept its main office in New Orleans throughout the oil bust of the 1980s and the following decades of industry consolidation, when dozens of energy firms all but abandoned New Orleans for greener pastures on the Texas coast. In the nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, the pace of exodus has accelerated, complicating New Orleans' halting recovery; according to the local business weekly CityBusiness, the metropolitan area has lost 12 of the 23 publicly traded companies headquartered here, taking white-collar jobs, corporate community support...
...group of feds [Australian Federal Police agents], seven of them. I thought it couldn't be [Haneef] and then they showed me the warrant. It said it was in connection with the London bombings," says Bosher, who had rented Haneef the apartment close to the Gold Coast Hospital in September...
...Australia detained Mohamed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian doctor, as he prepared to board a plane to India at Brisbane airport, and a second Indian doctor was earlier arrested in Liverpool. Haneef left a hospital in the same city last September for a position at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland after answering a job ad in the British Medical Journal...