Behind an unmarked door in a faded business park outside Kelowna, British Columbia, in a maze of rooms crowded with desks, computers, and floor-to-ceiling shelves, Chuck Fipke sifts through 20-pound bags of dirt.

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Pirates have released a Yemeni cargo ship without receiving a ransom after negotiations with local elders, a Somali official said Wednesday. The cargo ship was one of many seized in recent weeks off Somalia's coast, which has seen a sharp spike in pirate attacks.

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Now Brazil has announced that it has a plan to reduce deforestation by 70%, or about 6,000 square kilometers per year. According to Environment Minister Carlos Minc the plan would have the following effect:

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"The community has to be ready to defend itself, because it's clear the economy is going to get worse, and criminals are getting more bold."

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Twenty-five year veteran, Officer Leroy Pyle of San Jose, CA, gives the facts regarding the differences between semi and fully-automatic weapons and how confusion between the two leads to impaired judgement and bad legislation.

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In the Whole Foods Market Inc. commissary a few blocks from Route 99, the same canola oil that's being used to fry Asian shrimp balls and popcorn chicken will soon help power the walk-in freezer and the overhead lights.

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Small cars are simply cheaper to run than bigger ones, and no one believes that this price reprieve at the pumps will last very long. Now that there is a demand for small cars, however, we need to find the cars to fill it. For that, we need to turn to our more fuel-efficient neighbors across the ponds for help.

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November 27 may be Turkey Day in America, but in the world of politics, every day is turkey day. Turkeys are foolish creatures -- overstuffed, noisy and self-important. A lot like the politicians on our list of Turkeys of the Year.

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Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.

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An Alameda County judge has thrown out a lawsuit contesting the election to the county's Republican Central Committee of a handful of supporters of Ron Paul, a former presidential candidate.

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