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Somalia: Massive School Dropouts as Famine Continues
Nairobi - Jamaal Abdi, an eight-year-old boy at the Badbaado camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, would like to have an education. He has his own dreams for the …
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In Case Of Fire
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Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina
It was a hero America needed, a hero central to his time, a man whose personality might suggest contradiction and mysteries which could reach into the alienated circuits of …
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US Eases Stance on Deporting Immigrants
The Obama administration announced Thursday it plans to focus its deportation efforts on more dangerous undocumented immigrants, a move that gives undocumented Charlotte students like Elver Barrios hope. …
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Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the …
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Suicide Blasts Hit British Council in Kabul
Kabul, Afghanistan - A group of suicide bombers equipped with explosive vests and guns targeted the British Council offices in west Kabul in the early hours of Friday morning, …
Boredom Can Fuel Hostility Toward Outsiders
It’s all too easy to divide the world into people like us and outsiders. Newly published research points to a surprising factor that exacerbates this unfortunate tendency: Boredom. …
Drug Trafficking: Central America’s Dark Shadow
Drug trafficking through Central America is more threatening than ever before. To combat high levels of organized crime, cartel activity, violence, and institutional corruption, Central …
Verizon Workers’ Strike “Most Important Labor Battle Going on Today”
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Juan, before we move on to our first story, the Verizon strike is extremely significant. You wrote about it in your column this week in the …
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Foreign Students in Work Visa Program Stage Walkout at Plant
Palmyra, Pa. - Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s …