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Study: Ocean Acidity Exceeds Natural Norms New research suggests an overload of carbon dioxide in the oceans is posing a serious threat to marine life, food security and tourism. While most CO2 emissions from automobiles, buildings and factories go i

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Tahrir Square Packed as Egyptians Mark Uprising For many, being on Tahrir Square once again has brought the memories of last year's revolution flooding back. Doctor and former protester Rabie el Khouly brought his wife and children. My family as a wh

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'Hugo' Leads Oscar Race With 11 Nominations Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure movie Hugo, a fantasy tribute to French film pioneer George Melies, leads the list with 11 nominations, including one for Best Director, numerous technical categories and the

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Aquaponics Could Signal Future of Food Imagine growing vegetables and fish in the same space. Thats the idea behind aquaponics, a marriage of fish farming and soil-less plant cultivation in a single, sustainable closed system. Supporters believe aqua

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Obesity Linked to Brain Damage Researchers are beginning to understand why lasting weight loss is so hard. They believe it has to do with damage to the part of the brain thats involved in weight control. If obese people stop overeating, switch to a h

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Iran Threat to Close Strait Could Hurt Economic Recovery Nearly one-fifth of the world's traded oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, much of it destined for Asian and European nations. Lucian Pugliaresi at the Energy Policy Research Foundation sa

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'Rin Tin Tin' Recounts Dog's Rise to Stardom Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, has vivid memories of the German Shepherd from her 1950s childhood, when the animal performed daring rescues on a television series. But as she

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Children's Asthma Not Eased by Anti-Reflux Drug Seventeen-year-old Alaina Kvapil was diagnosed with asthma when she was 13. When you have an asthma attack, your airways actually close up and people dont realize that you cant breathe, you cant get the

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The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, on Wednesday cut short-term interest rates in an effort to boost the slowing economy. VOA's Barry Wood reports it was the eighth cut in the overnight federal funds rate in the past year. United States Fede

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Former President Bill Clinton made his first campaign appearance alongside Democratic candidate Barack Obama, during a campaign stop in Florida. Both Obama and the Republican contender, John McCain, are making late drives to win Florida, which will

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In countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of poor people face daily hazards to earn meager livings by scavenging for recyclable goods. In Cambodia, hundreds of scavenger families find their lives changing - they will lose their homes and

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Rescue efforts continue in southwest Pakistan, where the official death toll from Wednesday's magnitude 6.4 earthquake reached 215. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that providing shelter for homeless families is now a top priority. Rescu

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Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua dismissed 20 cabinet ministers in a government shake-up following growing criticism of the government's performance in the past 18 months. The administration has made little progress in the sectors the president set

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Nobel Peace Prize winners are helping young people tackle issues from disease to global warming through a group called PeaceJam. Mike O'Sullivan attended a PeaceJam conference in Los Angeles, California, that brought together six Nobel laureates wit

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Zambians went to the polls Thursday to elect a president following the untimely death of former President Levy Mwanawasa. Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from our bureau in Dakar. Levy Mwanawasa (file photo) Voters in Zambia turned out early Thursd

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The tone of the rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign is sharpening with less than a week to go until Election Day. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are focused on the economy and each other in the final days of the campaign, as

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Nevada is one of a handful of so-called swing states that could decide the U.S. presidential election. Nevada voted for the Republicans in 2000 and 2004, but Mike O'Sullivan reports from the town of Pahrump in rural Nevada, a shift toward Democrats

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A new study says that a global agreement on climate change will come too late to save the majority of the world's coral reefs. The research comes as the Queensland state government announces a new multi-million dollar plan to protect the Great Barri

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A new report is underlining the need for India to educate its massive young population, to ensure that it can participate in the country's growing economy. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, experts are warning that failure to train the coun

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has spoken with India's Prime Minister to express his sympathy for victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Kabul where the president said there is a new need for a regional approach

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agrandize
aksay
aromoline
Athapaskan
Athyrididina
attention anomalies
audio-discs
azotetrazole
be driven back on
best fellow
boat rising
Bulbus superior venae jugularis
cable force measurement
CAFOD
canaras
carpet pin
Caňas, I.de
CD i
cephatotoxin
Cleveland, Mt.
common ownershp
conditional construct
control fin
deep fissured sheath
diconnected digraph
dorigoes
doubleedge
drum type surface cooler
employee-owned enterprises
end of data
end-of-message code
Euphorbia latifolia
external pressure tester
family peripatopsidaes
fire detection equipment
fluviated
Flärke
formatted form
forthnim
galaway
grouping pattern of hits
Hasvik
hieb
hip-bone
homoenergetic flow
interlunary
Jesuitize
lasofoxifene
lofoten is.
magnetic stripe accounting machine
mentulomaniacs
microdictyon okamurae
Moldovan
NE (not equal to)
Nidau
noninflationary wage increase
palaeoclimatic
pale malt
paper mulberry fibre
pectorales
plain steel wire
port data unit
prebiotinylation
primary ionization
pyrotechnic shell
radio determination satellite services
radioisotope source
Rapid Horn
reductivists
regular channels
rotational absorption line
Rutergan
sad-clown
Santa Maria do Salto
Sayan Mountains
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self balancing ledger
self-raising flours
separate sludge digestion
sinkler
slow-speed magnet action
social position
solvent-assisted dyeing
Space Dye
sterlingite ( (1)zincite (2)muscovite)
subprime mortgage crisis
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sugar drier
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trichloro-cupric acid
twin-cam
unicorn in the garden
uterography
v. circumflexa ilium profunda
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yagnas
youth stage
zero-error