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| The War Is On |
 The US defence secretary, Leon
Panetta, recently announced
that America hoped to end its
combat mission in Afghanistan
in 2013 as it did in Iraq last
year. Yet at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere,
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| MONEY AND
MORALS |
 Lately, inequality has reentered
the national conversation.
Occupy Wall
Street gave the issue visibility,
while the
Congressional Budget Office supplied
hard data on the widening
income gap. And the myth of a
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HK police seize 800 cobras from smugglers
DPA
HONGKONG
HONG KONG police found nearly 800 cobras that they believe were being smuggled for sale as a delicacy, a report said on Sunday.
The 789 venomous Chinese cobras were found packed into 181 plastic boxes and hidden in bushes behind a beach on Hong Kong’s Lantauis-land, the Sunday Morning Post newspaper reported.
Animal management officials put the snakes down with lethal injections, saying they could not be released into the wild because they would pose a threat to people’s safety.
Chinese cobras are commonly used to make snake wine, medicine and soup, and are particularly popular in mainland China.
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