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Girls in gold-mining: ‘I dont want my children to be like me’
June 11, 2009MANILA (ILO Online) – Together with other children, Aiza stands in the mercury-laden water, shoveling mud or bending over a large pan in search of a tiny speck of gold. She earns 20 pesos or half...
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Dean backs Josh Skaller for council seat
June 11, 2009BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Howard Dean, founder of Democracy for America and Democratic National Committee chair emeritus, gave an enthusiastic endorsement to City Council candidate Josh Skaller, saying, “We need people who are going to be on...
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Howard Dean endorses Josh Skaller for N.Y. City Council
June 11, 2009BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Howard Dean, founder of Democracy for America and Democratic National Committee Chair Emeritus, gave an enthusiastic endorsement to City Council candidate Josh Skaller, saying that “we need people who are going to be on...
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Hong Kong reports first second-generation A/H1N1 flu case
June 11, 2009Two people were tested positive for A/H1N1 flu virus in Hong Kong on Wednesday, one of which did not involve travel history and was regarded as a second-generation case, local health authority announced here.
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Holocaust Museum shooter had close ties to prominent neo-Nazis
June 11, 2009Original source: Southern Poverty Law Center Law enforcement officials have identified the suspect in the Holocaust Museum shootings as James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. D.C. Police Spokeswoman Traci...
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