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Bill Gates has been usurped by Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecoms tycoon, as the world's richest person, a Mexican financial website has claimed. Mr Slim, 67, has amassed personal wealth of $67.8bn (£33.6bn), the Sentido Comun revealed in its Who's Who business rich-list published yesterday. More than half of his wealth can be attributed to his 33pc holding in mobile phone group America Movil, worth $36.2bn.

Media Bias: After "60 Minutes" used fake documents to accuse President Bush of avoiding war service, how could CBS News possibly stoop lower? By hiring a longtime Clinton crony to rescue its evening news show. Consider this quote, dating from a few months after Bill Clinton first took office: "If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk away winners." Those are not the words of a campaign operative or grass roots fundraiser, but of then-CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather, speaking on...

House approves oil drilling in Alaska refuge; Prospects in Senate slim.By H. JOSEF HEBERT/Associated Press Writer Published: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:51 AM CDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing the public outcry over $3-a-gallon gasoline and America’s heavy reliance on foreign oil, the House on Thursday voted to open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, knowing the prospects for Senate approval were slim. Drilling proponents argued that the refuge on Alaska’s North Slope would provide 1 million barrels a day of additional domestic oil at peak production and reduce the need for imports. But opponents to developing what environmentalists argue...

Ann Coulter will be coming to speak at WMU.   These are the details:February 22nd 7PM Ballroom of the Bernhard Center Free and open to the public Doors open at 6PM There will be an exclusive book signing following the event.  (no pies or tomatoes please) A donation of $50 to the WMU College Republicans is requested and appreciated in order to attend the book signing.   Don't be a bunch of cheapies!  Support the WMU GOP!  Ashley AllenChairman WMU College Republicans

Latin America's Richest Man Calls for Reducing PovertyBy Mark Stevenson Associated Press Writer Published: Sep 7, 2005 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, called for an effort to reduce poverty on Wednesday, saying it was good business. "We have to fight poverty for ethical reasons, but also for economic reasons," Slim said in a speech to students. Former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, speaking at the same event, echoed Slim's comments, noting "poverty is not good business." "A businessman has to feel solidarity with the country he lives in," said Slim. "Wealth must be...

FRESNO — The nectarine came off the branch with a rustle of leaves and a snap of the stem. The flesh was soft and light, with a tangy aftertaste that was only slightly sour. It was a few days from being perfectly ripe — and that, said Central Valley labor contractor Fred Garza, was a problem. It might have been too ripe to make the market in time. "The harvest started getting away from us. We should have 25 men here, but we only have six," Garza said while standing in a nectarine orchard last month. "I've lost two jobs...

RAPPER Eminem’s new album Encore has been leaked on to the internet. The Real Slim Shady star’s hotly-anticipated fourth album was stolen nearly two weeks before its release date. The theft has sparked panic at his record label Interscope who have brought forward the worldwide release date. An illegal website called RNS put the entire album on the net two days ago. Thousands of fans instantly downloaded it and could pass it on to countless others. It could lose the 32-year-old rapper MILLIONS of pounds in royalties from CD sales. Interscope bosses were locked in meetings all day yesterday. They...

<p>An SBC board member is also one of the largest investors in rival MCI -- a situation that Wall Street analysts and experts in business ethics say represents a clear conflict of interest.</p> <p>Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, 64, the richest man in Latin America and a major telecom investor, has sat on SBC's board since 1993. He served until last month as chairman of Telmex, Mexico's largest phone company, in which SBC holds an 8 percent stake.</p>

Sexual dysfunction affects both men and women and can potentially ruin relationships but now a new hormone may be able to help. Dr. Stephanie Ash, a gynecologist at Bay Regional Medical Center in Bay City, Mich., says that lack of labido is wreaking havoc on women and that nationally 43 percent of women suffer from a low sex drive. "Many women are distraught about it,"said Ash,"... and actually I would say at least 50 percent are reduced to tears in discussing it." However a drug on the market is working to change all that, it is nicknamed the "Barbie pill"...

The woman who could end Senator John Kerry’s chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station. The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday. Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no 909 on James Gichuru Road, next to the Spring Garden Chinese Restaurant. A guard...

"Una Pelosi ala Izquierda" Sung to: Slim Wittman's "Una Paloma Blanca" Note: Izquierda is "left" in Spanish It is pronounced "eess-key-air-da" When the truth shines on us liberals And we Rats are on the run It's a new day It's a new way Being a Democrat is not much fun We can feel our rotten dee-feat And it smells like burning Rat We can hear Republicans calling Hey! In that Bush there is a cat Una Pelosi ala izquierda I'm the left-wing bird in the sky Una Pelosi ala izquierda I'm the left wing bird in the sky I can...