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response
wows Secrets
of Sea creator |
| FAMOUS Italian director and choreographer
Gino Landi is impressed with the quality of audience in Qatar
and would love to present his works again and again, if possible
on the occasion of the World Cup 2022 as well. Talking to newsmen
on Saturday, Landi, who is in Doha to present his captivating
ballet titled ´Secrets of the Sea´ at the ongoing
Qatar Marine Festival 2011, said, "I have noticed that
the audience here sits through the entire show, which is something
that a director... |
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|  |  | | Why Qadhafi Has Lost |
 THE
fight is not over. Whether or not Col Moamar Qadhafi defeats
the rebels in eastern Libya, any legitimacy he once had has
been extinguished. He has weapons, tanks and planes, but he
has lost the allegiance of even those elements of Libyan society
that had once been willing to wait and hope for political reform.
His base of support is now only diehard allies and foreign mercenaries.
They might win on the... |
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| |  | | THE FORGOTTEN
MILLIONS |
| MORE than three years after we entered
the worst economic slump since the 1930s, a strange and disturbing
thing has happened to our political discourse: Washington has
lost interest in the unemployed. Jobs do get mentioned now and
then - and a few political figures, notably Nancy Pelosi, the
Democratic leader in the House, are still trying to get some
kind of action. But no jobs bills have been introduced in Congress,
no jobcreation plans have been advanced... |
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Radiation readings low, says diplomat
AP
VIENNA UN radiation tracking from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant shows levels taken elsewhere in the country, as well as in Russia and California, are minuscule, a diplomat with access to the readings said on Saturday.
In Japan officials said that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, even though they represented no immediate health risk.
The Vienna-based diplomat said the atmospheric measurements are 100 million to 1 billion times less than healththreatening levels.
He said the readings were taken on Friday at Takasaki, Japan, about 330 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of the accident site near the city of Fukushima; at Petropavlosk- Kamchatsky on Russia’s Kamtchatka Peninsula; and at Sacramento, California.
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