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Texas Approves Massive New Wind Power Project
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Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. In what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U....
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Frozen Embryos Better Than Fresh, Study Shows
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Joanne M.
19 hours ago
Infants born from embryos which were frozen and then thawed before being implanted into a woman had a higher birth weight and were less likely to suffer abnormalities. Fewer o...
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N.Y. Mayor Offers New Way of Measuring Poverty
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Rob Y.
Jul 15
Calling the current federal poverty measure broken and outdated, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City unveiled a new method that he and his aides said gives a more accurate ...
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Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives
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Rob Y.
Jul 12
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture a...
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2 Vetoes Quash U.N. Sanctions on Zimbabwe - NYTimes.com
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Rob Y.
Jul 12
An American-led effort to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe failed in the Security Council on Friday, with Russia and China exercising a rare double veto to quash a resolution that t...
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International Court Charges Sudan Leader with Genocide
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Rob Y.
Jul 15
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The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court formally requested an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, war cr...
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Sudan Vows to Fight Charges Of Genocide Against Its Leader
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Ben R.
Jul 15
The Sudanese government defiantly rejected International Criminal Court charges of genocide against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday, vowing to fight them "legally and diplo...
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White House puts warming threats on back burner
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Mia W.
Jul 12
The Bush administration Friday rejected its own experts' conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period that will delay action to red...
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Seante agrees to triple anti-AIDS funding (PEPFAR)!
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Catholic Relief Services
Jul 18
[After several nail-biting delays, the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to fund PEPFAR! PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) is a crucial program that funds AIDS care, prevention and treatment in poor countries. Catholic Relief Services p...
Plumpynut can feed millions of hungry children
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Tamara G.
Jul 17
Every year, 5 million children die worldwide from malnutrition. That's one child every six seconds. Now, the relief group Doctors Without Borders says it has something that can save ...
The Absurdities of Bottled Water
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Eric S.
Jul 01
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The push to turn water into the new wine is a marketing phenomenon: The bottled-water industry is engaged in an intense effort to convince Americans that the stuff in bottles is subs...
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