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Economic crises can have health benefits
Food and fuel shortages may have made life miserable in the short-term, but they led to long-term improvements in Cubans' health
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Both Cuba, Venezuela reap benefits from medical programHavana, Cuba - Roberto Andrade sat in a hospital waiting room beside rows of patients, each with a bandage on one eye, and explained why he considers himself a diplomat of sorts. |
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Castro the Conservationist? By Default or Design, Cuba Largely PristineHavana, Cuba - Will Cuban President Fidel Castro be remembered primarily as a man of the people, an authoritarian tyrant-or a conservationist? |
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Hemingway papers link Cuba and USHavanna, Cuba - Cuba is sending the US copies of more than 20,000 papers relating to the Nobel Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway. |
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Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Plant Seeds of Hope in Secret GardenGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - With their bare hands and the most basic of tools, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have fashioned a secret garden where they have grown plants from seeds recovered from their meals. |
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news from the Caribbean
- Economic crises can have health benefits
- Computer Program Reveals Anyone’s Ancestry
- Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky
- Haiti: UN pledges to help Government improve security in 2008
- Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007
- Saving a baby: With faith and fortitude, a student helps an infant get surgery
- Monkeys Use ‘Baby Talk’ With Infants
- Both Cuba, Venezuela reap benefits from medical program
- Annan hails Dominican Republic for progress on antipoverty goals
- Castro the Conservationist? By Default or Design, Cuba Largely Pristine
