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U.S. to sign UN treaty on people with disabilities
July 30, 2009Original source: President Obama recently announced that the United States will sign on to the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at a ceremony commemorating the 19th anniversary of the passage of the...
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Health care reform a major theme at La Raza conference
July 29, 2009CHICAGO – One of the most important topics discussed during the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) four-day conference here July 25-28 was the overall need for health care reform and how the lack of medical...
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Waitress swallows cockroach to prove a point
July 29, 2009A waitress at a restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, swallowed a cockroach crawling in one of the guests' bowl of noodles.
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Bull checks in hotel for a comfortable night
July 29, 2009A yellow bull running wild entered a hotel in Jinan, Shandong province, and spent an entire night inside one of the rooms last week. The bull, which had already injured a man, casually walked into a...
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Party of no and hate
July 29, 2009EDITORIAL What does the Republican Party stand for any more? If you had asked an old line GOPer, like Colin Powell 10 years ago, he might have said that it stands for 'free markets' and a...
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