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    A Bitcoin evangelist on the virtues of cryptocurrency

    Oct 09, 2013 09:53 PM EST

    ... It essentially means that as long as coercion is not being enacted, I have no issue with what is happening. So that would, I guess, make me a philosophical libertarian. Paul Solman: Not an anarchist? Jonathan Mohan: No. no. Paul Solman: And so what have you discovered as you've ...

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    News Wrap: Government's insurance website goes offline overnight after glitches

    Oct 08, 2013 04:00 AM EST

    SILVINA IAZURLO, Argentina (through interpreter): I'm worried. It seems to me that her head is her biggest asset. She is someone who's very intelligent, and having to have an operation, regardless of how simple it is, always has it risks. I'm very worried that there won't ...

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    What to watch as new Supreme Court term begins

    Oct 07, 2013 05:00 PM EST

    ... acts between adults and minors. The justices did not comment in rejecting that argument Monday. The court also declined to hear, at least for now, Argentina's appeal of a ruling that orders it to pay hedge funds that bought up some of the country's unpaid debt from its ...

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    Earth and Moon Join Saturn in Interplanetary Photoshoot

    Jul 19, 2013 05:12 PM EST

    ... our outer solar system. The first and most distant was captured 23 years ago by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from a nearly 4-billion-mile distance -- the famous Pale Blue Dot. Cassini also snapped an image in 2006 from 926 million miles away. This panoramic view of Saturn was ...

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    Special Elections Will Test Democrats in Mass., Sanford in S.C.

    Apr 30, 2013 01:34 PM EST

    ... nastier. In their only debate of the election Monday night, Sanford and Busch sparred over spending. Busch even zinged Sanford about his 2009 trip to Argentina to meet his mistress -- the same trip he had claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail and that contributed to the end of his ...

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    Gun Control Advocates Lose 'Round One'

    Apr 18, 2013 01:31 PM EST

    ... television ad buy against Sanford, attacking him not so much for his extramarital affair, but for his alleged misuse of taxpayer money for flights to Argentina, China and France. Meanwhile, Cook Political Report moved the race to GOP toss-up. A study suggests Fox News actually covered the trial of ...

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    Seven Cardinal Contenders for Pope

    Mar 13, 2013 01:20 PM EST

    Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, celebrating Ash Wednesday mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Feb. 13. Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images. Updated 3:30 p.m. ET: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected as the Catholic Church's 266th pope and the first from South ...

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    Food for 9 Billion: Satisfying China's Growing Demand for Meat

    Nov 13, 2012 08:46 PM EST

    As China's Diet Grows, So Do Concerns Over Safety, Sustainability

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    Governments Push for Austerity, but Can it Really Revive Growth?

    Jun 30, 2011 10:06 PM EST

    Greek Parliament passed a bill to implement a new austerity plan Thursday, and Britain was in the throes of a national civil servant strike. Margaret Warner discusses whether austerity measures will likely help those countries with MIT's Simon Johnson and Mark Weisbort of the Center of Economic Policy and Research.

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    In GOP's N.H. Debate, a 'Tough Night' for Pawlenty as Bachmann Builds Buzz

    Jun 14, 2011 10:09 PM EST

    New Hampshire played host to its first 2012 Republican presidential debate Monday with the candidates spending most of the evening criticizing President Obama's performance in the White House. Gwen Ifill and Political Editor David Chalian review the debate's highlights and lowlights.