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Global Health Efforts Make Progress Against Child Deaths (Popularity:  )
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org
Recent initiatives in global health have made significant advances in knowledge, prevention and reduction of diseases affecting children in low-income countries.Those advances will be the subject of discussion on Sunday, May 3, at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Baltimore. The discussion will be led by Mark C. Steinhoff, MD, director of the Center for Global Child Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Jennifer ...
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GlobalGiving Launches Chile Earthquake Relief Fund (Popularity: )
http://www.globalgiving.org/
GlobalGiving, the one-stop-shop for philanthropy, has launched the Earthquake Relief Fund for Chile, which will provide victims with critical necessities and services as the country struggles to recover from the devastating earthquake of February 27. Americans who want to help those affected can make tax-deductible gifts quickly and directly online at http://www.globalgiving.org/chile-earthquake/.GlobalGiving is partnering with local and international organizations who are responding by providing urgently-needed medical supplies, facilitating communications, and ...
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Gulf Oil Spill Poses Unprecedented Challenge to National Parks - National Park Foundation Launches Disaster Recovery Fund (Popularity: )
http://www.nationalparks.org
The ongoing Gulf oil spill poses an historic challenge to the national parks in the Gulf region, and beyond. The National Park Foundation, official charity of America's national parks, today launched the National Parks Disaster Recovery Fund. The public outreach and fundraising campaign will support the National Park Service's response to the Gulf oil spill, and will also serve to create lasting capacity to help national parks recover from future ...
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Helping Teens Get Good Grades in Money Management: A How-To Guide from the FDIC (Popularity: )
http://www.fdic.gov
For teens, saving money may not be as much fun as spending it, but putting dollars aside for their future and learning how to be smart consumers are still important things to do. Teens have access to more money than ever before thanks to allowances, gifts and, for many, income from jobs. Teens also are becoming more responsible for making decisions about everything from small, everyday purchases to saving for ...
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Hundreds Hold White House Rally in Worldwide Solidarity With Residents of Ashraf (Popularity: )
Hundreds of Iranian-Americans held a rally on the 11th day of a hunger strike outside the White House in show of worldwide solidarity with 3,500 "Protected Persons" of Ashraf, who came under a barbaric attack by Iraqi troops on July 28 and 29.At least 12 residents of Ashraf were killed and more than 400 wounded. Thirty-six individuals, many of them injured, were taken hostage. Seven of them are in serious ...
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Illinois First Student Workers Join Teamsters Union (Popularity: )
http://www.teamster.org
School bus drivers and monitors at First Student in Batavia, Illinois, have voted to join the Teamsters Union. The workers joined Teamsters Local 777 seeking improvements in their working conditions, including fair pay, better and more affordable health insurance and fairness on the job. There are 218 workers in the bargaining unit."Over the five years that I've worked here, so much has changed and so much has been taken away ...
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Immigration Amnesty Would Give Hundreds of Billions in Social Security Money to Illegal Workers (Popularity: )
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The "Earnings Suspense File" (ESF), used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to track names and Social Security numbers that do not match government records, has tripled over the past decade. The chief cause of growth in the file is unauthorized work by non-citizens, according to SSA Inspector General Patrick P. O'Carroll.Under an immigration amnesty plan, millions of today's illegal workers would be eligible for hundreds of billions in Social ...
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In Democratic Radio Address, Reid Looks Forward to Progress in 110th Congress and Change in Iraq (Popularity: )
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address, looking forward to Democrats' plans to move America forward in the 110th Congress. Last November, the American people voted for change -- nowhere more so than in Iraq. With President Bush reportedly considering a surge in troop levels in Iraq, Democrats are calling on him to change course, begin the phased redeployment of American troops, and end our nation's ...
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International Foundation for Electoral Systems Releases Survey on Ukrainian Political Attitudes (Popularity: )
http://www.ifes.org
As Ukraine prepares for the January 2010 presidential elections, the newest survey released today by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) finds that a precipitous decline in satisfaction with socio-political conditions and political elites in the country since the Orange Revolution are driving factors in the presidential race. The survey finds that Viktor Yanukovych of the Party of Regions is likely to receive the most votes in the first ...
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Interview of President Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV, Italy (Popularity: )
http://www.whitehouse.gov
The following is a transcript of an interview of President Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV, Italy: Map Room June 6, 2008 10:28 A.M. EDT Q Mr. President, the world has known tremendous change during your tenure, and three areas of concern remain: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. What's your assessment of those three theaters? And looking back in perspective, would you do anything different? THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's an interesting question ...
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