Off Topic, but interesting.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7350775.stm
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“Jakarta classmates recall ‘Barry’ Obama”
By Lucy Williamson
BBC News, Jakarta
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Primary School 1 in Jakarta’s Menteng district is an unlikely place to look for an American presidential hopeful.
Hidden down a narrow street in the Indonesian capital, overlooked by the big houses of the city’s elite, it is easily missed, except for the bubbling noise of schoolchildren drifting over the fence.
But this is where Barack Obama - the man aiming to be America’s Democratic nominee for president - spent some of his childhood.
He’s made much of his varied upbringing during the course of his campaign, and the qualities and vision it gave him.
A new book about his time here has just been launched by an Indonesian publisher - and there’s also a lot of interest in what he might do for US-Indonesia relations should he reach the White House.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “After years of a foreign policy that many Indonesians viewed as anti-Muslim, who better to have in the most powerful job in the world, they say, than someone who’s lived among Muslims, and seen their world from the inside.”
Fyi Only.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/19/london.stink/
April 19, 2008 — Updated 2017 GMT (0417 HKT)
“Stinky manure smell engulfs London”
SNIPPET: “STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Agricultural odor is inescapable in central London
Winds bringing smell of manure from farms in France, Belgium, Netherlands
Smell is expected to last for two days, until wind pattern changes”
LONDON, England (CNN) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The National Farmers’ Union blamed the smell on the muck-spreading by Dutch farmers, who it said are banned from the practice in the winter and are now spreading it “en masse.”
Although the smell may be unusual, the phenomenon of European air spilling its contents over England is not, forecasters have said.”
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“Hillary’s Terrorist Ties”
Friday, April 18, 2008
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann