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Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water

Water is the key to life. It is fundamental to all human activities. Water grows the food we eat, generates the energy that supports our modern economies and maintains the ecological services on which ...
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Millions in India, Nepal flee rising water

Extreme flooding has displaced millions of people on either side of the India-Nepal border after a river burst its banks, authorities said Thursday. In India's northeastern state of Bihar, almost 3 ...
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Celebrating Battambang's water

(CNN)-- Cassie Phillips is in Battambang, Cambodia, where she will be working with the NGO Homeland. Homeland is a Cambodian organization that works with local underprivileged children to give them ...
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NATO allies pledge 5,000 troops to Afghanistan

America's NATO allies in Afghanistan are committing 5,000 more troops to the fight against the Taliban, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Saturday. Around 3,000 forces from allied and partner ...
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Johnson and Jeffries appoint bipartisan task force to reform sexual harassment reporting process on Capitol Hill

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appointed a bipartisan task force that will work to reform the ...
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Balancing life and liberty

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --One of the greatest challenges facing Americans in a post-September 11 world may be summed up looking at the plight of Osama Awadallah. FBI agents tracked down Awadallah in ...
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U.S. government sites among those hit by cyberattack

U.S. government Web sites -- including those of the White House and the State Department -- have been under attack since the Fourth of July, along with financial and commercial sites like Yahoo ...
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Obama wants temporary aid for automakers

President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that he hopes there still will be a way to provide temporary assistance to keep the troubled U.S. automakers afloat. "I am disappointed that the Senate could ...
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Borger: Candidate noise all in the background

The campaign needed to find a way to break through all of the noise about Obama, and tried -- if a tad desperately -- to do so. First came the charge, hotly disputed, that Obama decided to go to the ...
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Assessing Rita's wrath

We were out filming the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita in the now famous 9th Ward section of New Orleans and had just finished our interviews and stand-uppers when my cameraman, Scottie ...
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'Octomom' seeks to trademark nickname for TV, diaper line

Story Highlights Nadya Suleman applies to use nickname media coined after she had octuplets Texas game creator also wants to trademark Octomom for game name Suleman's trademark, spelled "OctoMom" ...
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Biofuels: What do the experts think?

What we would like to continue to emphasize is that there are many different types of biofuels, some are more promising than others. Certainly there are things that need to be reevaluated and looked ...