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Oct 06, 2008
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Tax rebates start showing up in bank accounts
Monday, April 28, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government began depositing tax rebate checks in thousands of bank accounts on Monday as the stimulus program aimed at giving the ailing economy a jump-start got under way early.
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Sacrifice: An American virtue on rebound
Monday, April 28, 2008
It was a simple question, really, one the debate moderator hoped would lead Republican presidential candidates into a discussion about how much the public was willing to give to benefit the nation. ''What sacrifice,'' she said, ''would you ask Americans to make to lower the country's debt?''
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Bush, big White House crowd greet pope on his birthday
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — An enthralled South Lawn crowd of more than 13,500 sang ''Happy Birthday'' to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday — twice — and President Bush said the first papal White House visit in 29 years was a reminder for Americans to ''distinguish between simple right and wrong.''
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Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.
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WHO: Climate change threatens millions
Monday, April 07, 2008
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned Monday.
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