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Obama Tries to Reinvigorate Wall Street Reform

Monday, 14 September 2009 18:01

Warning that "history cannot be allowed to repeat itself," President Obama urged Wall Street on Monday to help jump-start a stalled effort to overhaul the U.S. financial regulatory system and head off a potential reprise of the U.S. economic crisis.

Visiting New York on the first anniversary of the nation's biggest bankruptcy, Obama used a speech at Federal Hall at 26 Wall St., site of George Washington's 1789 inauguration, to rally support for regulatory reform and call on the financial community to take responsibility for avoiding the abuses and failures that led the nation into a financial crisis last year and triggered a global recession.

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Father Of the Green Revolution, Norman E. Borlaug, Dead at 95

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 September 2009 15:54 Monday, 14 September 2009 17:59

Norman E. Borlaug, 95, an American plant pathologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for starting the "Green Revolution" that dramatically increased food production in developing nations and saved countless people from starvation, died Saturday at his home in Dallas.

"More than any other single person of this age, he has helped provide bread for a hungry world," the Nobel committee said in honoring him. "Dr. Borlaug has introduced a dynamic factor into our assessment of the future and its potential."

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Yale Killing Not a ‘Random Act,’ Police Say

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Last Updated on Monday, 14 September 2009 17:58 Monday, 14 September 2009 17:56

NEW HAVEN — The police in New Haven have said that the apparent slaying of a 24-year-old Yale graduate student “doesn’t appear to be a random act,” a spokesman said, suggesting that she had been singled out.

The body of the student, Annie Le, was found behind a wall in a laboratory building near the Yale Medical School on Sunday night. Her identity was confirmed in an autopsy on Monday, according to the office of Connecticut’s chief medical examiner.

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Outburst Helps Wilson, Opponent Raise More Cash

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Monday, 14 September 2009 17:51

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Joe Wilson’s two- word outburst during President Barack Obama’s congressional address on Sept. 9 has helped both the South Carolina Republican and his Democratic opponent raise more than $1 million for their 2010 campaigns.

The amounts they’ve collected are more than either had for their 2008 contest.

Wilson, a five-term House veteran who brought in $893,218 for his last re-election, raised more than $1.3 million since he shouted “you lie” at Obama, the National Republican Congressional Committee said.

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U.S., NATO must change to win Afghan war says commander

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Monday, 14 September 2009 17:45

KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn around the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. and NATO commander there said on Monday, wrapping up a much-anticipated review.

U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal said the situation was "serious" but the 8-year-old war could still be won. He gave no indication if he would ask for more troops but is widely expected to do so in the coming weeks.

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