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| Punk-flamenco Bebe tops Latin Grammy nominees |
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| The 6th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards nominations were announced today at a celebrity-filled press conference attended by international media, as well as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, at The Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood. |
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Israeli army completes evacuation of Neve Dekalim |
The Israeli army has completed the evacuation of Gaza 's Neve Dekalim settlement, an army spokesman said early on Friday.
"We completed on Thursday evening the evacuation of the Neve Dekalim settlers," the spokesman told AFP. |
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08/19/2005 |
DC Charter Schools Puzzling Performance |
| Accustomed to be in the front pages, D.C. public charter schools were making headlines again this week, when ten of the 18 whose test results could be reported failed to make adequate yearly progress, as required by federal law. |
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08/19/2005 |
Herndon council approves day laborers center |
| More than ten hours of testimony and the Herndon Town Council was as ready as they ever be to vote on the day laborers center that have created such a controversy and generated national attention to the small town. |
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08/19/2005 |
Convicted MS-13 member in machete attack |
| The teen who attacked a member of a rival gang with a machete and severed three fingers on the victims left hand, was found guilty and sentenced to 23 years in prison for aggravated malicious wounding, and another five for gang membership. |
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08/19/2005 |
Mexico's Fox protests as second US state closes border |
| Arizona ignored pleas for greater cooperation from Mexican President Vicente Fox to become the second US state Tuesday to declare a state of emergency on its border due to rising illegal immigration, violence and smuggling. |
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08/19/2005 |
Ecuadorian migrants' tragedy at the sea |
| Colombian and Ecuadorian planes and ships on Thursday scoured the Pacific for more than 100 illegal migrants missing after their small boat capsized, as Ecuador's president vowed a clampdown on gangs that organise human trafficking to the United States. |
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08/19/2005 |
Ecuador protests Colombia Before the O.A.S. |
| The fumigations made by the Colombian Air Force to eradicate narcotic plants throughout the border with Ecuador motivated the protest of doctor Claudio Mueckay Arcos, recently named People's Defender by the Congress of the Andean country who filed the complaint before the Inter-American Commission of Human rights at the O.A.S. in Washington DC. |
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08/19/2005 |
Ecuador halts oil exports because of protests |
Ecuador 's state oil firm, Petroecuador, said Thursday it was suspending exports of crude oil because of protests that have cut production.
In a statement, Petroecuador said it was declaring a state of 'force majeure."
"Exports of Oriente crude have been suspended," the statement said. |
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08/19/2005 |
| Israeli army completes evacuation of Neve Dekalim |
The Israeli army has completed the evacuation of Gaza 's Neve Dekalim settlement, an army spokesman said early on Friday.
"We completed on Thursday evening the evacuation of the Neve Dekalim settlers," the spokesman told AFP. |
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08/19/2005 |
| Pope reach out to the youth in Cologne |
| Pope Benedict XVI returned to his homeland for the first foreign trip of his pontificate Thursday saying he hoped his visit would mark a step towards reconciliation with other religions and unity among Christians. |
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08/19/2005 |
Healthy Briefs |
1) Exercise for a woman's heart
2) Tap water chemicals and pregnancy
3) Painkillers and hypertension linked |
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08/19/2005 |
Back to Birth Basics |
Midwives are working to reverse the
trend of more technology in childbirth |
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08/19/2005 |
Money can buy happiness... sort of |
| Money can buy happiness, according to new academic research in the United States. But the old saw that financial gain doesn't a happy life make seems partly true, as wellbeing appears in proportion to a person's relative wealth compared to their peers. |
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08/12/2005 |
Chlamydia: Latinas wake up! |
| The rate of Latina teenagers with Chlamydia is a crying shame: more than double that of white teens. |
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08/12/2005 |
Our yummy and healthy recipe: Fresh Salsa |
| The National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Office of Research on Minority Health have sponsored the project “Salud para su Corazón” (Health for your heart). |
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07/15/2005 |
Exercice, the spark of life |
| In the beginning, you should start by taking it easy. If you start out with an unrealistic routine, as is usually the case with the born-again exerciser, you are setting yourself up to fall. In that case your guilty feelings about not being able to keep it up might cause you to give it up exercising. |
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07/15/2005 |
| What's Up ? / Women: watch your waistline! |
| Two-thirds of women who die suddenly of cardiovascular disease have no previous recognized symptoms. Therefore, science is making great efforts to find effective indicators of cardiovascular risk that could facilitate timely referral and medical assistance. |
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