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…Honorable Senator Levin, While you are focusing your energies on passing the health care bill, Iran announced that it is adding 10 more centrifuges to its aggressive, well- advanced uranium enrichment process to acquire a nuclear bomb, launched a missile test and is reportedly working on a nuclear trigger device. As your constituents and American citizens, we are gravely concerned by the cataclysmic threats posed by Iran. Iran is the world's...…
…My World ROUNDUP Auschwitz Sign Recovered Warsaw/JTA The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign stolen from the memorial at the Auschwitz death camp was recovered. The metal sign from the front gate of the concentration camp, which means "work makes you free was recovered early Monday morning, about 72 hours after it was stolen, according to reports. The 16-foor-long sign, which was forged by prisoners at the camp, was found across the country in norther...…
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