Neenah Family Leaves for Life in Haiti
WBAY Green Bay - Fri Dec 4, 12:34 am ETA Neenah family is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, taking their five children to live in Haiti for the next three months.
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Bridges and Borders
The Mass Media - Tue Dec 1, 8:37 pm ETAt the UMass Boston campus we have large populations of students with Haitian and Dominican descent. Each group has created a club on campus that seeks to support students from their respective cultures and promote awareness of their roots, traditions, and histories.
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Give Back Night: School lends a hand
The Norwich Bulletin - Thu Dec 3, 11:52 pm ETEmma Rankowitz, 4, has a big pink blanket on her bed depicting Dora the Explorer. So on Thursday, Emma, a pre-kindergarten student, helped make blankets so other people can stay warm this winter as part of Give Back Night at the Integrated Day Charter School. Hundreds of students, parents and teachers gathered in the school’s gym to help the needy, as near as a local soup kitchen or as far away ...
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Jazz up your gift-giving with offbeat food baskets
Miami Herald - Wed Dec 2, 12:32 pm ETStill sending baskets of pasteurized cheese and dusty sausage for the holidays? Shame on you. With a little thought -- and less money than you might spend on mundane, ready-made selections -- you can create unique baskets filled with thoughtful South Florida treats that capture the individual tastes of those fussy foodie friends.
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India to Buy More Rice From Domestic Farmers to Avert Imports
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 12:06 am ETDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India, harvesting its smallest crop in seven years, plans to increase purchases from local farmers to avoid imports that are as much as 73 percent more expensive, said a government official.
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Only sliver of aid for U.S.-Mexico drug plan spent
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:38 am ETOnly $26 million of the $1.4 billion authorized to help Mexico and Central America fight organized crime has been spent due to bureaucracy, conditions placed on the funds by Congress and preparations in recipient countries, according to a government report scheduled for release Thursday.
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Channeling a Dream
Journal of Commerce Online - 1 hour 37 minutes agoThe plans for a new shipping passageway in Central America to rival the Panama Canal may flow through the Middle East. Nicaragua is seeking to attract investment from the United Arab Emirates to build a canal across the country and revive a centuries-old dream to compete with Panama via its own transoceanic waterway.
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Holiday wish: Clean drinking water for world
WIS News 10 Columbia - Fri Dec 4, 7:57 am ETOne wish by a South Carolina group this holiday season is providing more safe drinking water for the world.
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Why is everyone going to 'Farmville'?
Contra Costa Times - Fri Dec 4, 2:37 am ETWith Facebook and MySpace providing the wind beneath their wings, a flock of online game startups have soared in one of Silicon Valley's success stories during the recession. Poll: What's your favorite Facebook game?
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The most dangerous domains on the web
Yahoo! Tech Advisors - Wed Dec 2, 2:27 pm ETEvery country has its own top-level domain -- .uk for the United Kingdom, .de for Germany, .se for Sweden -- but just as it is with physical international travel, visiting some of these locales with your computer is safer than others. Should you while away your web time in Eritrea (.er) or Haiti (.ht)? Good question, and McAfee is here to answer that question . The security company has analyzed ...
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STUDENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE:LPHS student collecting soap to help save lives
Lake Placid News - 2 hours 43 minutes agoLAKE PLACID — A local student is trying to prevent deaths in other countries in a unique way. She is collecting discarded soap from area hotels that will eventually be shipped overseas to help battle unsanitary conditions in several nation.
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New Caribbean art showcased during Art Basel fair
NBC 2 Fort Myers - Fri Dec 4, 3:27 am ETAssociated Press - December 4, 2009 3:14 AM ET MIAMI (AP) - As usual, Art Basel Miami Beach is luring collectors to glamorous South Beach. This year, the annual contemporary art fair also...
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WBC Champion Andre Berto Opens Training Camp for “Sugar” Shane Mosley | BoxingInsider.com
Boxing Insider - Thu Dec 3, 12:25 pm ET(WINTER HAVEN, FLA. ) – WBC Welterweight World Champion Andre Berto (Winter Haven, Fla.) has opened training camp in his hometown of Winter Haven, Fla., for his title unification bout with WBA Champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley.
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Donald Washington Sr., 79, jazz musician
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Thu Dec 3, 7:03 pm ETDonald Washington Sr., 79, a well-known Philadelphia-area jazz saxophonist and retired Food Fair worker from Haddon Heights, died of lung cancer Tuesday at home.
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Police on hunt for two men suspected in violent robbery
Delaware County Daily Times - Fri Dec 4, 5:09 am ETDARBY BOROUGH — As a man who was shot in the chest during a robbery remained hospitalized in intensive care Thursday, the hunt was on by police for one of the two men who forced their way into the victim’s North Front Street apartment.
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Drug War Aid to Latin America Goes Unspent
CBS News - Thu Dec 3, 1:00 pm ET$1.4 Billion Appropriated, but Only $26 Million Spent Due to Bureaucratic Hurdles, GAO Report Finds
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