Uganda government outlaws female circumcision
FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 11, 6:19 am ETKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan official says that parliament has passed a bill banning female genital mutilation.
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Metallica's Death Vagina- Miley Cyrus Poisoned- Six Feet Under Leave Satan Hanging- Reatard Attacked- Activision Fires ...
antiMUSIC - Fri Dec 11, 4:35 am ETToday's roundup of quick music news stories
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DuPage students raising funds for Ugandan children
Daily Herald - Mon Dec 7, 1:18 am ETTeens in Wheaton - and the rest of DuPage County, for that matter - have their share of worries: Tests and school projects, relationships, social pressure.
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Fighting the Anti-Homosexuality Law in Uganda
National Catholic Reporter - Mon Dec 7, 12:42 pm ETThe group Faith in Public Life has been doing a variety of good works, showing the many and varied ways that faith informs public policy, organizing prayer services and press conferences on issues from health care to immigration reform.
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Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Challenges Individual Donors to Join Hosea Feed the Hungry in the Fight Against ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 10:58 am ETFoundation will provide $50,000 challenge grant to support HFTH's operating expenses in 2010
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Cash The Killer
Strategy Page - Fri Dec 11, 5:48 am ETDecember 11, 2009: The UN has concluded that the primary problem with violence in eastern Congo is the illegal trade in illegal trade in valuable minerals. For example, Hutu rebel militias control the mining of cassiterite. While the major source is Bolivia, Congo contains large deposits.
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In Copenhagen, U.S. pushes for emissions cuts from China, developing nations
Washington Post - Thu Dec 10, 12:00 am ETCOPENHAGEN -- Two top Obama administration officials arrived Wednesday at the U.N.-sponsored climate talks that opened this week offering both diplomacy and a tough line: The United States is willing to be a full partner in fighting climate change, but the real problem is with China and the...
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OYO Geospace Reports Fiscal Year 2009 Results
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Dec 11, 9:15 am ETHOUSTON----OYO Geospace today announced net income of $1.8 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, on revenues of $92.9 million for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2009. This compares with a net income of $14.2 million, or $2.31 per diluted share, on revenues of $134.5 million for the prior fiscal year.
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CSU graduates cycle across country for $6,745
Colorado State Collegian - Fri Dec 11, 3:03 am ETCSU graduates Mark Kowalik and Kristen DeMint got on their bikes in May and rode 4,400 miles across the country.
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Decade: Mira Nair on “Monsoon Wedding”
indieWIRE - Thu Dec 10, 8:05 am ETEDITOR’S NOTE: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2002 with an interview indieWIRE’s Jacque Lynn Schiller had with Mira Nair upon the release of her greatly ...
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Exchange Club to hold fundraiser, hear presentation on Children UP
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Wed Dec 9, 1:43 am ETMATTOON — Charles Laliberte, director and founder of the Northern Uganda relief organization, Children UP, will speak to the Exchange Club of Mattoon on Dec. 16.
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President-elect wants amnesty for Zelaya
USA Today - Wed Dec 9, 1:12 am ETHonduras' president-elect wants amnesty for ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
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Xeko's Elf Island and Nationwide Children's Hospital Focus on Hospitalized Kids Who Need a Boost in Fun
dBusinessNews.com - Thu Dec 10, 6:15 pm ETATLANTA, December 10, 2009 – Xeko’s Elf Island (www.xeko.com), the award-winning kids’ entertainment brand specifically created to instill positive social and environmental values into the world’s future stewards while empowering kids to make a difference, is extending its “doing good” commitment through a partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the ...
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Minister: Somali Suicide Bomber Was Danish Citizen
INO News - Thu Dec 10, 5:10 pm ET(RTTNews) - Somali Information Minister Dahir Gelle said Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed over 20 people attending a graduation ceremony in the capital city of Mogadishu last week was a Danish citizen of Somali descent.
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Free concert Sunday by African children's choir
Tri-Valley Herald - Thu Dec 10, 9:36 pm ETMatsiko Choir will perform African and western selections.
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Collaborators Sequence Cassava Genome
GenomeWeb News - Thu Dec 10, 3:30 pm ETNEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A multi-partner research initiative has completed a draft sequence of the cassava genome and now plans to use funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue genomics studies aimed at improving the plant and protecting it from disease.
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Uganda memory books tell of stark AIDS truths
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Plane crashes into VIP lounge
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