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Avatar Posted by investment 533 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Science Discovery Environment | Tags: amazon river nile river
Researchers in Brazil are claiming to have established as a scientific fact that the Amazon is the longest river in the world.

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Avatar Posted by DebbieJohnson 526 days ago (http://www.ioltravel.co.za)
Category: Leisure | Tags: still waters in the land of a thousand l
Still waters in the land of a thousand lakes
June 22 2007
By Susan Stanos

When foreign travellers visit Canada, they generally opt for the cit read more »
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Avatar Posted by Globe 519 days ago (http://www.timesonline.co.uk)
Category: Others | Tags: offbeat news
STELLA SITHOLE is a high school teacher with neatly braided hair and a husband who works in a bank, yet in the twisted world of President Robert Muga read more »
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Avatar Posted by time 470 days ago (http://sports.yahoo.com)
Category: Sports | Tags: young gun nascar sport new york
BROOKLYN, Mich. – If you're from New Jersey, you get used to playing second fiddle.

Fair or not, geography leaves your state in the perpetual sha read more »
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Avatar Posted by lazyguy 461 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: Leisure | Tags: news celebrity world entertainment
COLUMBIA, S.C. - This time, the question was a little easier for Miss Teen South Carolina.

After being stumped by a Miss Teen USA pageant question read more »
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Avatar Posted by Karen 452 days ago (http://edition.cnn.com)
Category: Leisure | Tags: little liechtenstein travel
(Tribune Media Services) -- Two centuries ago, there were dozens of independent states in the part of Europe that was German-speaking. Today, there a read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jackie 433 days ago (http://www.fff.org)
Category: Science Discovery Environment | Tags: everglades florida federal government environment pollution
When most people think of southern Florida, they conjure up images of Disney World and spring break. Yet further south than Mickey and Daytona Intern read more »
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Avatar Posted by Karen 431 days ago (http://www.scienceblog.com)
Category: Science Discovery Environment | Tags: science global warming arctic heat wave stuns climate change
Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen’s University-led climate change pro read more »
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Avatar Posted by gamefreak 431 days ago (http://www.pickthebrain.com)
Category: Gaming | Tags: halo 3 reflect important life lessons succeed
Yesterday I had a blast playing Halo 3 for the first time. It lead me to reflect on the countless hours I’ve poured into the Halo series over the pas read more »
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Avatar Posted by lazyguy 428 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Others | Tags: point of view call of the wild
When tired of lattes and rush-hour gridlock, urbanites like to get back to nature. But it's not the sanitised recreational backyard too many take it read more »
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Avatar Posted by bear 412 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: bacterial infection killed almost 19000 2005 atlanta people united states
ATLANTA, Oct. 16 — Nearly 19,000 people died in the United States in 2005 after being infected with virulent drug-resistant bacteria that have spread read more »
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Avatar Posted by facts 385 days ago (http://www.time.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: what goes wrong adhd brain scientists hyperactivity disorder national institutes of health
Scientists have found that the brain development of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is delayed but otherwise typical, a read more »
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Avatar Posted by Joker 363 days ago (http://www.reuters.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: history geography exploration maps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the L read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jackie 337 days ago (http://www.dallasnews.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: illegal immigration politics border security economy culture
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won't, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American cons read more »
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Avatar Posted by Magnus 292 days ago (http://www.forbes.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: usa wealth gap shopping income tax
Was F. Scott Fitzgerald right when he wrote that, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."?

Yes, at least acco read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jackie 224 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: News Business and Finance | Tags: leftist leaders latin america fernando lugo paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay - The victory of the "bishop of the poor" in Paraguay's presidential election expands a wave of leftist leadership across Latin read more »
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Avatar Posted by bioagri 175 days ago (http://trophort.com)
Category: Science Discovery Environment | Tags: biology agriculture horticulture forestry geography
In the nearly 100 years that have elapsed since DDT was first synthesised, this substance has had an influence on human ecology perhaps unmatched by read more »
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Avatar Posted by bioagri 174 days ago (http://trophort.com)
Category: Others | Tags: biology agriculture horticulture forestry geography
244 species belonging to 181 genera and 57 families of plants plus notes on habitat are listed, including 19 species of legumes and 38 of grasses. read more »
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Avatar Posted by bioagri 172 days ago (http://trophort.com)
Category: Science Discovery Environment | Tags: biology agriculture horticulture forestry geography
A list is given of 9 species of Lepidoptera, 3 of Orthoptera, 8 of Coleoptera and 4 of Hemiptera that infest soy bean in the Indian State of Karnatak read more »
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