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U.N. Appeals for Aid to Help Somalia
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AP - The United Nations appealed Tuesday for nearly $327 million in aid to help starving people in southern Somalia, which is suffering its worst drought in a decade.
AIDS meeting urges Asian nations to protect children
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AFP - East Asia and Pacific nations must protect young people from HIV/AIDS or face an epidemic that will kill nearly 20,000 children a year in less than a decade.
It'll Be Manning Vs. Deuce in Mississippi
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AP - Mississippi's first NFL exhibition game in a decade will feature two stars with significant ties to the state.
Tokyo Commercial Land Prices Rise
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AP - Commercial land prices in Tokyo rose last year for the first time in more than a decade, while nationwide land prices fell at a slower rate amid a rebound in the world's second-largest economy, the government said Thursday.
Fewer Doctors Providing Charity Care
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AP - The percentage of physicians who provide free care to the poor has dropped over the past decade, signaling a growing problem for the uninsured, a survey suggests.
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New Edition's Next Edition
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E! Online - A decade after releasing their last album, Home Again, the now grown-up members of boy band New Edition--Bobby Brown included--are reuniting to perform at the Essence Musical Festival in July, organizers announced Tuesday.
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Braves' Andruw Jones Tries to Keep Pace
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AP - Almost a decade behind schedule, Andruw Jones finally had the kind of season everyone expected of the teenager from Curacao who hit two homers in his first World Series game.
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Relatives open hearts, homes to foster-care children
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USATODAY.com - In the past decade, the federal government has intensified its efforts to find permanent homes, in the form of adoption, for more foster-care children. Despite an domestic stall, more relatives are adopting a rising number of foster-care children, from 15% in 1998 to 23% in 2003, Department of Health and Human Services records show.
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Charles urges religious tolerance
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Prince Charles tells Egyptian television he tried to warn of growing problems between Islam and the West a decade ago.
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Good guys don't always finish last
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The Sporting News - Wait, who's that -- No. 16 in Dodger blue? The guy walking like Captain Ahab? Yes, it's catcher Pat Borders, that Pat Borders, World Series MVP. From 14 years ago. Borders is 42 and has played a whopping 295 games since 1996, which puts him even with Queen Elizabeth, a U.S. Congressman and portable heaters in Riyadh based on hours worked in the past decade.
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India to Make Currency Fully Convertible
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AP - India will soon announce how it plans to make its currency fully convertible, the finance minister said Monday, a decade after such plans were shelved following the Asian economic crisis nearly a decade ago.
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India Ponders Making Currency Convertible
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AP - India is looking into making its currency fully convertible and lifting all restrictions on foreign exchange transactions, a top government official said Sunday, a decade after such plans were shelved following the East Asian economic crisis.
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Shortage Of Pharmacists Looming In The U.S.
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Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - A new survey finds that the U.S may face a shortage of pharmacists in the coming decade. HealthDay News reports the shortfall will be due to more practitioners choosing part-time work over full-time work, and more male pharmacists retiring. Survey...
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Food Companies a Target in Obesity Fight
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AP - It's tempting to blame big food companies for America's big obesity problem. After all, they're the folks who Supersized our fries, family-portioned our potato chips and Big Gulped our sodas. There's also the billions they've spent keeping their products ever on our minds and in our mouths.
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Former Wailer Sues for Marley’s Royalties
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Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer London, England (AHN) - A former member of Bob Marley's band, The Wailers, has taken his fight for a slice of the reggae great's royalties to a British courtroom. Aston Barrett, who was Marley's bassist for almost a decade, is suing Universal-Island Records...
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Drug-related HIV rates 'soaring'
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The number of HIV-positive drugs users who inject has reached its highest level for more than a decade.
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Fresh Orchestration Sweetens 'Jelly's Last Jam' Revival in Atlanta
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Playbill - Alliance Theatre in Atlanta gives the Broadway musical Jelly's Last Jam its first major Equity revival in a decade, March 15-April 9. Alliance associate artistic director Kent Gash directs and co-choreographs the show, which celebrates the life of musician-songwriter Jelly Roll Morton. Bryon Easley is co-choreographer.
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Decade of planning culminates in Commonwealth Games opening
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AFP - A decade of planning is to culminate as the eyes of the world zero in on Melbourne for the official opening of the Commonwealth Games, which Queen Elizabeth II praised for uniting nations.
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Hingis Wins Latest Rivalry With Davenport
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AP - Martina Hingis won the latest round in a rivalry with Lindsay Davenport that stretches back more than a decade, taking a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory Tuesday in the Pacific Life Open.
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U.S. Markets Post Solid Gains
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Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer New York, New York (AHN) - U.S. markets closed on a high note, with the Standard and Poor's 500 finishing the day at its highest level in almost half a decade. The Dow industrials finished the day at its highest close since June, 2001, ending up 75.32...
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MPs slam asylum removals backlog
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It could take more than a decade to clear the backlog of failed asylum seekers staying in the UK, say MPs.
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China's parliament approves rural reform plan
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Reuters - China's parliament approved a rural reform plan on Tuesday that seeks to address the chasm dividing rich cities and the poor countryside, closing one of the most contentious legislative sessions in a decade.
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Bourne's "Swan Lake" a top-notch success in LA
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Reuters - Choreographer-director Matthew Bourne's breathtaking and sexy version of "Swan Lake" was first performed in 1995 in London, where it won the Olivier Award for best new dance production. At the Ahmanson, more than a decade after its groundbreaking opening, the show is still one of the most original, entertaining and imaginative evenings of theater imaginable. A revised/updated ballet for the general audience.
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Shipping under threat as bridges across China's Yangtze set to triple
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AFP - The number of bridges spanning China's longest river the Yangtze could triple in the next decade and a half, severely hampering vital shipping to the nation's interior.
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Ex-Yugoslav Leader Milosevic Dies in Cell
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AP - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.
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