"We might say that we were looking for global schemas, symmetries, universal and unchanging laws - and what we have discovered is the mutable, the ephemeral, the complex." - Ilya Prigogine
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Hong Kong (dpa) - One of Asia's most prominent bankers Thursday
confirmed he was being investigated for possible insider trading over
Rupert Murdoch's attempt to buy Dow Jon...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday
categorically denied reports by local media on the resignation of
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motta...
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The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he is bothered by Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture but will support his nomination for attorney gen...
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FBI agents had to break a window at a city alderman's home to get inside Monday to arrest her on a federal bribery charge, authorities said.Alderman Arenda Troutman is accused of accepting $5,000 t...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Locals in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan
tribal district are preparing to chase after foreign militants who
had been driven out of the region's centra...
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Srinagar, Kashmir (dpa) - At least 25 people, including 10
soldiers and 13 firefighters, were missing two days after a major
fire destroyed one of India's largest munitions ...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Rafael van der Vaart will stay at SV Hamburg and
won't be moving to Valencia, the Bundesliga club's sporting director
Dietmar Beiersdorfer announced Tuesday....
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3 inmates executed in Japan
TOKYO - Three death row inmates were executed Thursday in Japan,
the Justice Ministry said.
The ministry declined to identify the three following i...
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The Human Desire to Categorize the World
Top Asian banker faces insider trading probe over Dow Jones bid
