Irans Voices Not So Different From Americas
Ritual chants of Death to America, in Tehran and the defiance of President Ahmadinejad at the U.N. this past week are the Iranian voices heard most often around the world.
But when ABCs Jim Sciutto traveled to Iran recently, he found more common ground among the people.
He met a mother shopping with her daughters.
Why should we be enemies? said Fatima, referring to Iran and the U.S. The new generation is for peace. Theyre not for war.
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Tourism is being hit by delays to reform Northern Ireland's licensing laws which could enable later pub opening hours, leading voices in the drinks trade said last night.
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Americas support for Israel under fire
In the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.S. may not have any soldiers, but it is in the middle of the fight.
And its goals are in conflict. The administration wants a quick end to the bloodshed but insists first on disarming Hezbollah.
The last thing that we want to do is to have an unprovoked attack by Hezbollah across the blue line and to have, several months from now, a situation in which they can do that again, said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on PBS The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on Tuesday.
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America's embarrassment in "backyard"
The fourth Summit of the Americas has concluded as scheduled. Different from past sessions the summit failed to sign a planned declaration by state leaders, becoming the first Americas Summit that ends without a final document.
The Summit of the Americas has always been an import occasion for the US to push its Latin America policy. This time, US President George Bush attended the meeting with about 2,000 officials and security personnel only to leave empty-handed. The US had hoped to use the occasion to reactivate the negotiations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA),
Conservationist Answered Americas Call of the Wild
When Edgar Wayburn first visited Alaska in 1967, the federal government was still unsure what to do with the new states 360 million acres.
Wayburn, a San Francisco physician and then-president of the Sierra Club, knew exactly what should happen. He and his wife, Peggy, spent that summer scouting locations for new national parks in the sprawling state.
Thirteen years after the Wayburns first fell for Alaska, they saw the final piece of their vision realized. President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act in 1980, creating 10 new national parks that doubled
Brew City noted as Americas Drunkest City
Cheers, Milwaukee: Your city has been ranked by Forbes.com as Americas Drunkest City on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits.
Forbes said last week it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism.
Minneapolis-St. Paul was ranked second overall; followed by Columbus, Ohio; Boston; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Cleveland; Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia and Providence,
