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Chile Earthquake

A devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 2010, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean – roughly a quarter of the globe. The quake hit 200 miles (325 kilometers) southwest of the capital and [...]

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The 10 best shots I hit in 2009

Ghosts in the Machine
A thermal scanner shows the heat signatures of passengers arriving at Seoul’s Incheon Airport. Such devices were deployed in the spring to help prevent the spread of swine flu.
Source: http://www.time.com
Inauguration Day
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama waits backstage, moments before taking the oath of office.
Source : http://www.time.com
Chaitén volcano
Electrical discharges sparked by the heat of [...]

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Amsterdam: History of the Red light District

A red light district is a neighborhood where prostitution and other businesses in the sex industry flourish. The term “red light district” was first recorded in the United States in 1894, in an article in The Sentinel, a newspaper in Milwaukee. Other mentions from the 1890s are numerous, and located all over the United States. [...]

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USA & Iran : History of Relations (Video)

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Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers.

The secretary general of the CGT, Hugo Moyano, along with members of the labor union truck drivers, blocked again this morning the Distribution of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin.
The demonstrators staged a protest outside the plant distribution of the two newspapers in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas.
Moyano’s men, who were driving about 30 [...]

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Gisele Bundchen : top-earning model

At $25M a year, the 29-year-old Brazilian is the world’s top-earning model. Married to Tom Brady and pregnant with their first child together, she continues to promote Versace, True Religion jeans, Dior and Ebel watches. She’s known for her sexy, feminine, and body-conscious looks.

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Ares I-X: a great success

For the first time in nearly 30 years, a new type of rocket took off from Cape Canaveral this week.  Though the first launch attempt was delayed by the weather, the second was a resounding success, with the Ares I-X covering 25 miles over a period of two minutes before dropping into the Atlantic for [...]

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The open pit mining in Argentina

Argentine law allows mining is done in the open.
The impact of gold mining, uranium and plutonium are devastating to the health of the population and the environment.
The Argentine government has no qualms in allowing these types of mining projects. He has no intention of protecting natural resources, even those considered world heritage. Last year the [...]

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Human traffic

Is it possible that we as Christians just aren’t angry enough about injustices like human trafficking and slavery?  Perhaps, we’ve grown too desensitized, domesticated, and docile. I’m not trying to say this for the sake of the ’shock factor’ but I really believe there are times when the Church needs to have a deep[er] anger [...]

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The Argentine football team Maradona: could not go to World Championship

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Lost 1-0 Haedo goal against Paraguay, which is already in South Africa. He was again without a team and finished with ten ideas for expulsion of Verona. Maradona set in the second half to Palermo and Schiavi to search for the miracle, but was unsuccessful. Argentina now play a playoff: This fifth behind only Ecuador [...]

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Biosecurity on farms

There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making?
An article of faith among veterinarians and epidemiologists is that large industrial farms are both biosecure and [...]

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Brazil to Send US Biodiesel

This is one of the good news, bad news stories.
The bad news is: According to this story in World Energy Alternatives, Brazil wants to start sending soy-based biodiesel to the U.S. and the European Union. That word comes the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry:
Sustainability studies have been performed to prove the biodiesel was produced sustainably to meet [...]

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