Typhoon Man-Yi Strengthens as It Heads Toward Japan (Update3)

The storm's winds were gusting to 276 kilometers per hour near its center and typhoon-strength winds of 118 kilometers an hour extend out as far as 147 kilometers from the eye, the Navy said. Wave heights are as high as 11.6 meters (38 feet) near Man- Yi's center.

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Simpsons' Kwik-e-mart becomes a reality

Win.

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Lindsay's parents make Japan plea

The parents of a young British woman murdered in Japan have made a tearful public appeal in a bid to find her killer.

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Japan Ends Talks Without Changes To Limits on U.S. Beef Imports - WSJ.com

TOKYO -- Japan and the U.S. wrapped up two-day talks Thursday after exchanging views and data on American beef imports, but there was no agreement on Washington's calls for Tokyo to relax its import restrictions, officials said.

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Japan's Bonds Complete Worst Quarter Since 2006 on Rate Outlook

June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's government bonds completed their worst quarter in more than a year on speculation the central bank will increase borrowing costs again by August.

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Japan PM seeks missile defence powers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan should find legal leeway to allow its armed forces to shoot down a ballistic missile fired at the United States.

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Chinese Wins Japan's 1st Comics Prize - Forbes.com

A Hong Kong Chinese artist has won Japan's first "Nobel Prize of Manga" for artists working in the comic book genre abroad.

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Hundreds Of Slaves Freed In Raids In China - Forbes.com

"I felt it was a fairly small thing, hitting and swearing at the workers and not giving them wages," said Heng Tinghan, according to the Shiyan Evening News.

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Mayor's killing sows anger at Japan's gangs - International Herald Tribune

It's about time, although it remains unclear as to whether any resolutions put forth in this article will endure.

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So who sent you that spam? HP or Oracle?

We've been poring over data collected by Support Intelligence, a firm that uses spam traps and other methods to trace the locations of infected computers.

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Viacom Sues YouTube Over Copyrights - Forbes.com

MTV owner Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages. It was bound to happen.

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7 NOVA teachers arrested for possessing cannabis, cocaine - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Seven foreign teachers working at the NOVA English language conversation school have been arrested on suspicion of violating a law on illegal drugs and the Cannabis Control Law, police said Wednesday.

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Device will let TSA screeners see through clothes

WASHINGTON -- This month, the federal government plans to launch the nation's first airport screening system that will take potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers in an attempt to find bombs and other weapons. Also this will definitely happen:

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Debunk This: The Fed And Money

This is not a new idea: "The Federal Reserve is not federal and it has no reserves." Although many articles like this exist, all of them rely on the same old sources (some dating back to the 1700s!), and a few are written by blatant conspiracy nutcases.

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Cut Off Iran's Gasoline Imports

An interesting point:

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Why Nuclear Power Cannot Be A Major Energy Source

It takes a lot of fossil energy to mine uranium, and then to extract and prepare the right isotope for use in a nuclear reactor. It takes even more fossil energy to build the reactor, and, when its life is over, to decommission it and look after its radioactive waste.

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The three crises: oil prices, climate change and international debt

Article's conclusion:

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Eliminating the Need for Economic Growth: A submission to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

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How interest-free banking works: The case of JAK, by Ana Carrie

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Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse

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Petrodollar or Petroeuro? A new source of global conflict, by Cóilín Nunan

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