Positive news from Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic to plant 2 million treesThe Dominican Republic has launched a reforestation project focused on planting 2 million trees across the country. |
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Dominican Republic to plant 2 million treesThe Dominican Republic has launched a reforestation project focused on planting 2 million trees across the country. |
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Appreciation finds no language barriers during Continuing PromiseEighty-five-year-old Simone Alexis arrived at a medical clinic set up by the crew of USNS Comfort wearing her Sunday best, in anticipation of getting new eyeglasses. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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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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Annan hails Dominican Republic for progress on antipoverty goalsDominican Republic - On an official visit to the Dominican Republic today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the country's progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of global antipoverty targets adopted at a United Nations summit meeting held in 2000. |
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Spider’s Blood Found in Amber May Hold Prehistoric SecretsDominican Republic - A 20-million-year-old spider frozen in time with droplets of its own blood may offer important new clues to the past, says the scientist who found it in the Caribbean. |
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