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Karen Kramer with daughter, Stella Grace, shortly after giving birth at home. The use of midwives to help with home childbirths is an ancient and honored tradition in many societies around the world. But in the United States, midwifery began to fall

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According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir

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The new film from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle tells a remarkable true story of courage and survival. James Franco stars as a young outdoorsman who makes an unthinkable decision when his arm is trapped by a boulder in a remote canyon. Alan Silv

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Researchers from around the world have gathered for Australia's first international conference focused entirely on adapting to the impact of climate change. Organizers of the meeting say the effects of a warming planet are already being felt and that

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Sally Leivesley, a security advisor based in Britain, said, The potential for three countries - France, Germany, and Britain - to be attacked simultaneously is actually a global shock attack and it comes out of the maturity in the style of attacks th

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, waves to the media during his departure ceremony as he leaves Tehran's Mehrabad airport, while accompanied by Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi (file photo) Iran inaugurated part of what it said is a new

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Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Windhoek, Namibia, 17 Aug 2010 Days after hopes were raised at the Southern Africa Development Commun

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Maj. Joseph Geraci speaks at a town hall-style discussion following a 'Theater of War,' performance. Wars may differ in their circumstances, but the toll on those who fight them has been strikingly similar over the centuries. The violence, clamor and

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Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva talks during his meeting with foreign journalists at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, 29 May 2010 Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stands by his decision call in troops to end the two month l

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Long before singer Robert Plant formed the legendary rock group Led Zeppelin, he was a member of a blues band called Band of Joy. Now, some 40 years later, he's released a new CD by the latest incarnation of Band of Joy, with members that now include

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Arif Mardin (far right) and his classmates, at VOA in the early 1960s. Grammy-award winning producer Arif Mardin died in 2006 after being diagnosed with cancer a year earlier. Now, four years after his death -- and through a loving tribute by his son

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Mark Hopkins's award winning documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, was recently released in movie theaters. The film offers an intimate look into the daunting missions of doctors who volunteer for the international huma

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The World Health Organization says by the year 2015, more than two billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be classified as obese. In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes among children and young people. B

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Indian villagers attack a policeman during a protest by farmers demanding better compensation for their land acquired by the state government for an upcoming expressway project near Agra, 17 Aug 2010 In India, protests by farmers about land acquisiti

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The new gasoline/electric hybrid Chevrolet Volt Today President Obama visits a U.S. auto plant that makes the battery-powered Chevrolet Volt. Some analysts think the Volt could revitalize the struggling American auto industry with its high-tech batte

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Visitors to the Museum of Natural Science in Houston revel in the sight and smell of the corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanum) Over the past few weeks, thousands of people flocked to the Museum of Natural Science in Houston, to see - and smell - a r

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Americans buy tickets en masse for tournament, party on in South Africa despite World Cup exit Darren Taylor | Johannesburg, South Africa 29 June 2010 As the drama of the later rounds of the World Cup in South Africa unfolds, hundreds of thousands of

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Germany's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer eyes the ball shot by England player Frank Lampard before the goal was disallowed during the 2010 World Cup round of 16 soccer match, 27 Jun 2010 The head of football's world governing body, FIFA's Sepp Blatter, says

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Protesters in New York City hold posters to express their opinions about the proposed Islamic Center to be built near the site of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, 22 Aug 2010 Opponents of the proposed Islamic center near the site of the 2001 te

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No matter what image the name Cleopatra conjures up - a seductress who swayed two Roman rulers, the actress Elizabeth Taylor or the tragic heroine in a play by William Shakespeare - Egypt's last queen continues to fascinate and intrigue more than 2,0

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abductor ventralis muscle
acta
Ad Dukaydik
aerothermochemist
avon
basic categories of soil classification
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binding attachment
blow doors
bought in
brain surgeons
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catches fire
class Cyanobacteria
clastobryum glabrescens
communistery
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courtesy phone
cyclohexanone resin
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energy-transfer equation
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erre
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