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NSA Center for Spy Data Suffers Electrical Failures - Bloomberg
"A $1.2 billion data center being built in Utah for the National Security Agency to house U.S. intelligence secrets has been plagued by electrical failures, according to an agency official. The electrical failures at the facility located in the suburbs of Salt Lake City have been mitigated and the center is completing acceptance testing, the official, who asked not to be identified, said in an e-mail. The problems were reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal."
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Surging shale output shakes up US gas - FT.com
"The US natural gas market will be turned “upside down” in the next decade as surging shale production inverts the map of supply and demand, according to a leading research group. The northeast, traditionally the biggest gas consumer, will become a net supplier to other regions in a dramatic reversal of pipeline flows, Bentek Energy said in a new long-term market outlook."
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Qatar locals object to Zidane ‘head butt’ statue - Culture & Society - ArabianBusiness.com
"Qatar residents have had a mixed reaction towards the recently installed five metre bronze state depicting two fighting footballers on the Corniche. According to Doha News, the reactions range from admiration and respect to amusement, bewilderment, anger and disappointment. The statue depicts French footballer Zinedine Zidane head butting Marco Materazzi during an infamous moment during the 2006 World Cup."
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Meeting With Israelis, Palestinian Leader Strikes a Conciliatory Tone on Peace Talks - NYTimes.com
"RAMALLAH, West Bank — In a rare meeting with Israeli politicians, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority expressed optimism on Monday that a peace agreement could be reached in the nine months allotted to the current round of negotiations, and pointedly avoided questions that proved provocative in the past. "
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Obama and the Debt - NYTimes.com
"THE Republicans in the House of Representatives who declare that they may refuse to raise the debt limit threaten to do more than plunge the government into default. They are proposing a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that “the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law” is sacrosanct and “shall not be questioned.”"
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America cannot live so carelessly forever - FT.com
"Watching the US budget crisis unfold, I was reminded of a famous passage in The Great Gatsby. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, “they smashed up things, and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together.”"
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