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1 million kids may have lead poisoning: what you can do
April 25, 2009Three hundred thousand children in the United States are documented as having lead poisoning. Due to poor reporting practices and failure of the health care system to test all children between 1 and 5 years of...
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At home in union-made utopia: PBS looks at the housing co-op movement
April 25, 2009Original source: Three elderly New Yorkers—Yok Ziebel, Julie Luguvoy and Pete Rosenblum—are meeting at the apartment complex in the Bronx where they grew up together. They embrace with all of the affection of lifelong friends. They...
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Taliban withdraws from Pakistan zone
April 25, 2009Taliban militants began pulling out of a recently seized district of north-western Pakistan on Friday. The pull-out came after the government had warned that it would remove them by force. Television pictures showed dozens of militants...
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Anti-Cuban terrorists operate in the US
April 25, 2009Havana, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the US, said many groups plotted and perpetrated terrorist acts against his country from Florida. In a telephone interview with author...
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Senegal: Relief as gay activists are released
April 25, 2009NAIROBI, 23 April 2009 (PlusNews) - International rights groups have welcomed the release of nine AIDS activists in Senegal, who were sentenced in January for their sexual orientation. On 20 April, an appeals court in the...
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