• Against the initial instincts of his foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Alan Beith, the senior Lib Dem who sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee, Mr Kennedy demanded as the price of his co-operation a widely based inquiry that would examine both the political decision-making and the war's legality.

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  • Investors are dumping the currency because the Canadian economy is widely perceived as commodity-based and export-oriented at a time when commodity prices are depressed and export markets are sluggish.

    ECONOMIST: The Canadian dollar

  • Little or no evidence exists that supports the effectiveness of fear-based warnings for a product that carries widely-known risks.

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  • As cloud-based services become widely available, the door is opening for a host of opportunities and fresh capabilities.

    FORBES: Does IT Still Matter?

  • Ms Brychan added that the importance of a school's ethos was "more widely recognised than just the faith-based sector".

    BBC: Church primaries 'above average'

  • More broadly, the principle upon which immunisation is based - namely, exposure to a non-harmful version of the naturally occurring infection in order to induce a natural and protective immune response - can be seen to be a far more natural process than the drug- and surgery-based therapies most widely venerated as the main achievements of modern medicine.

    BBC: 'The natural benefits of vaccines'

  • For years now, Gmail has been widely considered the cleanest and easiest Web-based mail system.

    FORBES: Can Microsoft's New Alternative To Hotmail Take On Gmail?

  • While the market-based emissions policy is widely considered dead in D.

    FORBES: Obama: Cutting CO2 Helps Economy

  • The governments of the countries hosting these stations have mostly been friendly towards America for instance, the most widely watched, al-Jazeera, is based in Qatar, home to America's fifth fleet.

    ECONOMIST: Those awkward hearts and minds

  • "With UltraViolet, consumers enjoy the flexibility and security of cloud-based entertainment rights combined with the choice-expanding benefits of a widely honored industry standard, " said Mark Teitell, general manager of UltraViolet.

    ENGADGET: Seagate now a DECE member, supporting UltraViolet HD

  • Google wants to hand off its proposal to standards bodies in the hopes that some form of PKI-based token authentication will be widely adopted by everyone from browser manufacturers, to website owners to device makers.

    FORBES: Google Reveals Details About Its Plan To Fix Password Security

  • "If used widely, this inexpensive, fixed-dose artemisinin-based combination antimalarial could make important contributions to 'rolling back malaria', " they wrote.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Drug cocktail 'may beat malaria'

  • The duck concept, which has helped the Aflac brand become more widely recognizable, was created by the New York-based advertising agency Kaplan Thaler Group.

    FORBES: 69. Aflac

  • Born in Hangzhou in 1964, Ma first made a name for himself with his idea to start an online directory called "China Pages, " widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company.

    CNN: Jack Ma Talkasia Transcript

  • His journey probably started with DaveNet, a free, subscription-based email newsletter, which evolved into Scripting News, the first full-featured and widely followed blog.

    FORBES: Age of Context: Social Media Becomes a Mature Platform

  • More troublingly for Apple, the attack also highlights a growing number of attacks on Mac computers, which are widely thought of as safer from software viruses than Windows-based PCs.

    FORBES: Apple Admits To Being Hacked, Says No Data Stolen

  • Ali al-Sistani, a Najaf-based ayatollah who is probably the most widely revered scholar among the world's Shias today, has stated that in order to be legitimate such a ruler should win acceptance from a majority of believers.

    ECONOMIST: A debate rages about the nature of clerical rule

  • The "killer applications" of speedy networks (which theoretically can transmit data at 40 times the rate of conventional cellular systems) have been widely touted to be portable videophones, plus access to Internet-based broadband content: games, music and shopping.

    CNN: Stuck On the Runway

  • Law enforcement agents should be able to test the toxin found in the letters to determine its potency and purity, as well as learn what chemicals may have been used to extract it from widely available castor beans, said Murray Cohen, the founder of the Atlanta-based Frontline Foundation, which trains workers on preparedness and response to bioterrorism and epidemics.

    NPR: Experts: Ricin Like That In Letters Easy To Make

  • Markets are monitoring statements from party leaders to see whether they can form a broad-based coalition that would be charged with changing the electoral law, widely considered to contributing to the instability of Italian governments.

    WSJ: Italian Securities Battered Amid Election Gridlock

  • For six months, under U.S. law, Israel-based drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will be allowed to sell generic Zocor in widely used doses.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • For example, one company widely mentioned as a potential target of activists is Textron, the Providence, Rhode Island-based industrial conglomerate that builds everything from the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor to smart cluster bombs.

    FORBES: Faltering Defense Industry Faces New Danger: Activist Investors

  • Since Google revealed in January of 2010 that its systems had been penetrated by China-based hackers, the phenomenon of Chinese cyberspying has been an open secret, widely discussed by the cybersecurity community but rarely mentioned by U.S. government officials for fear of diplomatic repercussions.

    FORBES: Here's The U.S. Government Report That Openly Calls Out China On Economic Cyberspying

  • Arm Holdings, based in Cambridge - an area dubbed "Silicon Fen" - designs microprocessors widely used in tablets and smartphones.

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  • The New York-based group already represented the clinic for free in a lawsuit over a 2011 law banning the widely accepted use of a medication that induces abortion.

    NPR: ND Gears Up For Legal Dispute On New Abortion Laws

  • The painting Matritum Urbs Regia by Russian Pierre Schild was painted in 1956 and is based on the detailed drawings of 16th-century Flemish artist Anton van den Wyngaerde, who travelled widely around Spain on behalf of King Felipe II.

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  • The Vancouver-based yoga gear maker's statement comes a day after a New York Post report that was widely circulated by the media recounted one woman's tale of being asked by sales staff to bend over to prove that the yoga pants she was trying to return were sheer.

    NPR: Lululemon: Downward Dog Not Required For Returns

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