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Thomas was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation. He died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic cancer. He was 67.
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Millions of years ago, the natural environment was shaping us into the species we are now and humans evolved by natural selection. But as humans continue to evolve, we've turned the notion of natural selection on its head. Nature isn't the only force that picks the genes. Humans are doing it too.
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Wind power, one of the largest segments of the renewable energy market, will experience a sharp decline in growth this year. The slowdown comes as a surprise because the stimulus bill included $43 billion for energy projects -- a big boost for renewable forms of electricity.
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The previously undisclosed estimates of U.S. spending through 2015, detailed in a NATO training mission document, are an acknowledgment that Afghanistan will remain largely dependent on the United States for its security.
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Tropical Storm Hermine Tropical Storm Hermine is expected to hit early Tuesday in the same area where Hurricane Alex roared ashore in June -- a sparsely populated area about 50 miles south of Matamoros, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways are part of a package of targeted proposals that must be approved by Congress, which is highly uncertain at a time when many legislators and voters are worried about adding to federal deficits.
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Make your forecast: Will Republicans take control of the House and Senate? Or just one chamber? Or will Democrats hold on to their majorities in both? The fall campaign kicks off in earnest today. Put your pundit hat on and do some prognosticating.
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The unemployment rate rose to 9.6 percent last month, with big political implications ahead of November elections. If the job market is ever to improve, employers will have to start feeling a lot more confident about where the economy is going. So what will it take for them to create jobs?
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Cities are starting to update a critical public service: on-street parking. Washington, D.C. is in the vanguard of this new parking shift. Officials are working with private companies -- trying out five different technologies to collect parking revenue.
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Just two years ago, Democrats were on their way to the biggest congressional majorities in many years. Now they're struggling to stay in power. And that prompts comparisons to another president who started with a lousy economy. President Reagan's party faced tough midterm elections as unemployment topped 10 percent in 1982.
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News on South America continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
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On a hilltop overlooking Caracas, dozens of shacks made of wood scraps and corrugated zinc have risen among tall weeds - a new slum tacked on to an old one as the poor face harder times in Venezuela.
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Dozens of miners trapped underground in Chile could be rescued by November, according to a document shown to rescue workers.
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An Incan mask, part of the "Inca Gold" exhibition in Paris. The Incas called gold "the sun's sweat," but it's the sweat behind that civilization's handiwork with the cherished metal that's on display in Paris, from Sept.
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Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car -- preferably a Mercedes-- and wants to see the world.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010 The 2010 election predictions: The Orinoco States There are three states in Venezuela that really cannot be fit together except that their daily life is based around the mood of the Orinoco river of impressive water flow.
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A third man survived last month's massacre of 72 migrants by suspected drug traffickers in Mexico and is now in the United States, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said Sunday.
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Long wait ... A relative of the one of the 33 miners trapped deep underground in a Chilean mine.
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He said he wanted to become famous for his political achievements. But yesterday a Tory MP was thrown into the spotlight for a very different reason - after his wife of seven years was exposed as a 70-an-hour prostitute.
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Colombian Troops Kill 11 Rebels In Raid BOGOTA - Colombian troops Friday killed 11 members of the anti-government National Liberation Army group during a raid near the Venezuelan border, the military said.
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Some tendencies within and outside the Bolivian government of Evo Morales propose a form of '21st century socialism' as the goal, while others say state capitalism is a necessary phase to consolidate national unity.
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