Republicans Rally Around Romney as Likely Nominee Former President George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara are the latest big-name Republicans to rally behind Mitt Romney. She [Mrs. Bush] was reminding me of the Kenny Rogers song, There is a time when

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Florida Shooting Highlights Racial Profiling Controversy Across the United States, there are calls for action in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Martin is the 17-year-old shot dead in a confrontation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

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Classic Fairy Tale Gets Hollywood Makeover in 'Mirror, Mirror' QUEEN Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? MIRROR Snow White. PRINCE Snow White? QUEEN Ugh. Once upon a time, a very vain queen discovers that her fabled beauty is

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New Texas Institute Coordinates Space Medicine Research Since the human space flight adventure began more than 50 years ago, scientists have learned a lot about things like the effects of weightlessness on bones and muscles, and the danger of increas

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Immigration Tensions Grow as Far Right Plots Pan-European League Around 200 members of far-right movements from across Europe came together in Aarhus, Denmark last Saturday. This day will be remembered and etched into history, 31st of the third 2012.

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Aging HIV/AIDS Survivors Create New Class of Patients In sub-Saharan Africa, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has reduced the mortality rate among HIV-infected people by 20 percent. Many of the people receiving treatment who are now in their forties ar

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China's Hotel Expansion Creates Huge Demand for Qualified Workers Learning how to dress appropriately is one of the most basic lessons at the Beijing Hospitality Institute. Although the tuition is much higher than at other colleges, students like Can

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Kenya's 'Slum Drummers' Make Beautiful Music With Scrapped Objects It's hard to imagine that this instrument, called a kalimba, is actually an old cooking pot, that has been fished out of this place. But Nairobis Slum Drummers are masters at making b

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Many Along Mekong River Concerned About Hydropower Expansion Ek Than's family has lived in this remote Mekong village in northern Kratie, Cambodia, for more than three generations. As dams have popped up in China, as well as on upstream tributaries,

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Self-help Book Becomes Romantic Comedy Comedian and radio host Steve Harvey appeared as himself in the film on his advice book for women. STEVE HARVEY: Actually, it started out just for my daughters, who are all of dating age. I started sitting them

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Prison Theater Prepares Inmates for Life on Outside And if youre going to stage Romeo and Juliet in a prison, your first challenge is casting. Here, as far as personality traits, the feminine is not really embraced, says Hal Cobb, a founding member o

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New York Residential Building Tops in Height, Price Americas most famous skyline has a new architectural icon - New York by Gehry. This gleaming 76-floor residential skyscraper is dramatic. So is the cost to live there. A penthouse costs $65,000 a mo

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WHO Issues New HIV Guidelines for Couples The World Health Organization has issued new guidelines for couples in which one partner is HIV positive and the other is not. The guidelines for so-called discordant couples are being praised by UNAIDS, Doct

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ASEAN Still Searching for Consensus on South China Sea Dispute The maritime dispute has become increasingly heated in the last year. China claims ownership of much of the South China Sea, along with four ASEAN states, including the Philippines. On We

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Burma NLD Claims Aung San Suu Kyi Election Victory Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters celebrated at her National League for Democracy headquarters after the party announced she won. Lawyer Daw Nwe Ni Aung says she believes the woman known affectionately a

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Newspaper Office Bombings Kill 7 in Nigeria After the explosion, the crowd that gathers around the gutted This Day newspaper office in Abuja quickly become angry. They shouted at soldiers and police, saying there is no security in Nigeria. Among the

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Smuggling Tunnels Become Lifelines for Impoverished Gaza One of Gaza's major economic lifelines is a smuggling tunnel, 20 meters underground, stretching some 200 meters from Gaza into Egypt. It is used primarily to smuggle cement and gravel and some

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Marijuana Grower Supply Store Opens in Washington DC With a shovel full of potting soil weGrow ceremonially put down roots as the first store catering to medical marijuana growers in Washington. Franchise owner Alex Wong decided to open the store aft

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Goldman Environmental Prizes Honor Diverse Group of Activists Kenyan Ikal Angelei is a hero to the people who live around Lake Turkana. She received a Goldman award for her efforts to halt construction of a dam on a river in neighboring Ethiopia that

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Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggles to Rebuild In the aftermath of Katrina, the city of New Orleans was in ruins. One hundred twenty of the citys 200,000 homes were destroyed. Eighty percent of the city was flooded. It wasnt the hu

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