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17 Feb 2010 10:40

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Biz, World: In case you were wondering, a ton of coal costs $2,000 dollars

  • $60
    billion
    size of the deal Australia has to supply lots of dirty, environmentally unfriendly coal to China for the next two decades
  • 30
    million
    number of tons of coal that deal will buy China; environmentalists are up in arms, saying the deal doesn’t square with Copenhagen source

24 Oct 2009 18:00

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World: The Saudi sex chat story means lashes for a female journalist

  • 60 lashes for a woman who reported on a guy talking dirty source

26 Jun 2009 13:02

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World: A lot of dirty cops in Mexico got arrested for being dirty

  • 92 officers got hit for helping out Mexican drug cartels source