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April 8, 2009


March 18, 2009

  • Sacramento Struggles with Growing Homelessness
  • Poverty Shields Berlin from Downturn
  • Predatory Commercial Tax Preparers Take from Poor
  • Coalition of Christians Fight Cambodian Sex Trade
  • Navajo-Hopi Development Ban to be Lifted
  • Saudi Arabia Considers Protections for Domestics
  • Potato Giveaway Puts Tons Into Hands of Camden Needy
  • Iran Tries Hard to Encourage Marriage
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  • Texas-Mexico Border Wall Records Withheld or Redacted
  • Sanitation Access VIP-Only at World Water Forum
  • CNN: Single-Payer Is So 90s
  • Conference Speakers Call Global Warming Policies Genocidal
  • ABC News Finds 'Person of the Week' in South Jersey
  • Happiness Study Favors Financial Security over Cash-On-Hand

March 4, 2009

  • Nutter Endorses Advocates' Anti-Hunger Platform
  • Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Border and World
  • Tribes Happy with Stimulus but Worried about Poor
  • New Online Portal an Exchange of Climate Know-How
  • Despite US Offer, NYC Stands Firm on Food Stamps
  • Developing World Uses Open Science-Paper Access More
  • Cathedral Kitchen Starts Converting Guests into Cooks
  • 'Don't Call These People Primitive'
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  • Affordable Housing Grants Down
  • China's Water Deficit 'Will Create Food Shortage'
  • Groups Oppose Revival of Fairness Doctrine
  • New Jamaican Governor General Launches Nation-Building Campaign
  • Puerto Rico Unveils Job Cuts Plan

February 18, 2009

  • Job Losses Threaten China with Social Unrest
  • Bipartisan Group Releases Antipoverty Proposals
  • 22 Indians Lose Eyesight After Free Surgeries
  • Caring Kids Assemble Welcome Kits for Newborns
  • Fish-Dependent Nations Face Special Climate Threat
  • Hard Times Drive More to Seek Basic Help Online
  • UNEP Calls for Organic Green Revolution
  • Much-Opposed Clinic Relocation Approved
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  • Ecologists Warn of 'Water Stress', War
  • Obama Opens Faith-Based Office, Expands Its Scope
  • NGOs Must Provide Unrelenting Leadership on Climate Change
  • More People Empty Their Coin Jars for Dollars
  • Labor Minister Urges Inmates to Acquire Skills

February 4, 2009

  • Salem County Homeless Count Yields Zero
  • Water Treatment Plant Opens in Baghdad's Sadr City
  • New Bus Service Spans Pine Ridge Reservation
  • Poverty, Conflict Deadly for New Mothers
  • Jersey Shore Needle Exchange Evaluated
  • London Dance Situation Laments Zimbabwe Situation
  • Socioeconomic Status Revealed by Body Language
  • Versatile Aid: Solar Ovens for Haitians
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  • Fugitive Safe Surrender Efforts Lauded
  • World Food Shortages May Force Use of Bioengineered Crops
  • Summit Meeting Looks at Gloucester County Homelessness
  • Hard Times Haven't Stopped Corporate Philanthropy
  • Old Veteran's Freezing Death Causes City to Remove Power
  • More Small Hauls

January 14, 2009

  • The 'Amazing Race' of Missionary Work
  • Reforms Target Rooming House Operators
  • Utilities: Late Payments, Shutoffs Rise
  • Plans Debated for Aid to Iraqi Widows
  • Legal Safety Net Under Threat
  • Rudd's Homeless Plan Pleases Welfare Groups
  • Small Troop Makes Big Holiday Happen for Camdenites
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Generous Gifts Fill Charities' Wish Lists
  • Taliban Imposes Co-Education Ban in Border Region
  • Stretch Your Charity Dollars
  • Domestic Violence Spotlighted in Angola
  • 'Support the Troops' Means 'Here, Too'
  • More Small Hauls

December 17, 2008

  • High School Students Become Microfinance Investors
  • Elmer NJ Dentist Helps Needy in Israel
  • School Lunch Program Sees Rise in Demand
  • Running Businesses, Women Escape Domestic Violence
  • New Jerseyans Testify About Prison System
  • Major League Baseball Joins Alliance to Help Poor
  • Vineland Tree Helps Families in Need
  • Indigenous Filmmakers Arise in Argentina
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  • Cooperative Solutions to Crisis Needed
  • An Italian Solution for the Hungry
  • Community Rushes to Aid of Nurses' Food Pantry
  • Doctors Graduate in Somalia, First in Years
  • Salem Gearing Up to Get Homeless Census Right
  • Bangladesh Pushes Debt Relief, Climate Insurance
  • More Small Hauls

December 3, 2008

  • Cutting Recess Time a Trend in Education
  • New Center to Boost Knowledge on Underutilized Crops
  • Chronic Health Problems Increase in Older Californians
  • Dental Plan Overcharges Threaten Australia's Budget
  • Sex-Offender Law Adds More Punishment, Says Court
  • Large Malaria Vaccine Test Starting Soon
  • Grassroots Effort Brings Factory to Indian Reservation
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  • Malaria Rates Plummet Among Kenyan Children
  • Re-Enlistment Rises As Job Market Falls
  • Thinning Glaciers 'Endangering South Asian Water Supply'
  • Racial Bias Targeted in Iowa Foster Care
  • GAO Report Shows Failure of Plan Colombia
  • Plan for a More Walkable, Bikeable Camden Area
  • More Small Hauls

November 19, 2008

  • Tent Cities Proliferate As Seldom Before
  • Oncoming Kyrgyzstan Winter Raises UN Concern
  • Food Bank Can't Keep Up with Need in Vineland
  • Zimbabwe Sees Another Poor Grain Harvest Ahead
  • Mysterious Donation Bins Spark New Local Laws
  • 'Battle Against Hunger Lies in a Seed'
  • Life-Net Radio Profiled in Major Newspaper
  • To Do a 'World of Good', Go Shopping!
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  • 'People's Champ' Out of Prison
  • Experts Advise on World Hunger
  • A Fresh Look at the Rich-Poor Kids Health Gap
  • Sat Photos Show Destruction of Tribe's Land
  • To Improve Rural Life, Merge Some Villages
  • More Small Hauls

October 29, 2008

  • Widening Need Empties NJ Food Pantries
  • EU Says Stalin Planned Ukrainian Famine
  • Economic Downturn Ticks Up for Barter Sites
  • E-Waste Industry Not So Clean
  • Energy Efficiency Generates Jobs in California
  • Caribbean Civil Society Unites on Haiti Debt Relief
  • 'The First Soup Kitchen in the Country to be This Green'
  • UN Urges Indonesia to Stop Imprisoning Drug Users
  • Minner Announces Increased Low-Income Heat Aid
  • Romany Communities Under Pressure in Italy
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  • If Venezuela Had Emulated Alaska
  • Afghan Girl Freed from Slavery in Seattle Area
  • Taliban Kills Aid Worker for 'Spreading Christianity'
  • Rehab Helps Young Albertans
  • More Small Hauls

October 15, 2008

  • What Africans Will Remember About George W Bush
  • Movement for a New Poverty Metric
  • World Food Program to Start Buying from Local Farmers
  • Ancient Agricultural Practice Revived in New Jersey
  • Cheap Labor Mines Virtual Gold in Web-Based Games
  • Asset Poverty: A Profile
  • Ugandan Crafts Become Fair-Trade Industry
  • Apartments Renamed in Honor of Moorestown Advocate
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  • Economic Downturn Fails to Slow Greenhouse Emissions
  • Charities Sue UK Government Over Fuel Poverty
  • Zulu Artists Rise from Poverty and AIDS to International Acclaim
  • Bulgarian Monk Offers Perspective on Financial Crisis
  • Seychelles Stands Up Against World Trade Regime

October 1, 2008

  • World Poverty and Wealth Both Grow
  • Ex-Crime Fighter Opens His Home to Sex Offenders
  • The Ultimate in Recycling
  • When Life is Already Hard, a Hurricane
  • Climate Change Could Be Huge Jobs Generator
  • Man Admits Recruiting Homeless for Medical Fraud
  • Computer Giant IBM Pledges Huge Volunteer Service
  • WIC Being Upgraded
  • Under the Unforgiving Sun
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Religious Leaders Spend a Week Against Poverty
  • Immigrants Face Poor Work Conditions in Canada
  • Ike Damage Hobbles Gulf Seafood Industry
  • Reduce Global Warming Sooner: Eat Less Meat
  • More Small Hauls

September 3, 2008

  • Wealthy Town Attacks Affordable-Housing Rules
  • New Agreement Aims to Protect Afghan Aid Workers
  • Community Policing Begins on Reservations
  • Bangladesh Landmass May Be Growing Not Shrinking
  • Water Stations Disallowed for Desert-Crossing Migrants
  • UN Agency to Help Tajikistan Avert Famine
  • Festival Promotes 'Slow Food', Agro-Reforms
  • Community Fights to Reverse Seizure of Mangroves
  • Nursing-Home Residents Bless Children Worldwide
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  • Cave Creek Rethinks Day-Labor Ban
  • Kids Profit from Porn
  • Back-to-School Effort Gets Fathers Involved
  • Australia Considers Expanding Its Guest Worker Plan
  • Labor Issues and Religion Linked in Holiday Weekend Sermons

August 6, 2008

  • Biden (D) and Bush (R) Unite on Huge New AIDS Law
  • North Korea on Brink of Hunger Catastrophe
  • LA Bans New Fast-Food Outlets in its South
  • Afghan Kids Allowed to Live with Incarcerated Mothers
  • Amid and Despite Violence, Tribe Wants Casino
  • Council Tries to Protect Trailer Park Residents
  • Charity Helps Transform Haiti Fishing Economies
  • Major Child Labor Case Unfolds at Kosher Meat Plant
  • At-Risk Teens Build Houses for Aging-Out Foster Kids
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  • Europe's East-to-West Migration May Be Reversing
  • Tour Shows Woes of Atlantic City Housing Project
  • Botswana Takes Aim at Upcoming Large Rise in Water Demand
  • High School Students Sample College Life by Living It
  • Officials Leave Church-Sheltered Illegal Immigrants Alone

July 23, 2008

  • Magazine Picks Camden 'Hood as #2 Best in US
  • China's Waistlines Growing with its Economy
  • Tough Times in Burlington County
  • Indonesian Government Losing Control to Corporations
  • Controversial NJ Housing Loophole Now Closed
  • Africans Genetically Susceptible to HIV
  • Pro-Life Democrats Call for Plank to Reduce Abortions
  • Peace Corps Seeks and Signs More Adults Over 50
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • New Method Predicts Who On Death Row Will Die
  • In Response to Food Crisis, Same Old Tricks
  • Half of Utah's Indian Students Drop Out of School
  • Subsidy Plans Proposed to Combat Chilean Inflation
  • Climate Change to Have Serious Consequences for Fisherfolk
  • More Small Hauls

July 9, 2008

  • New Africa Enviro-Atlas Exposes Extent of Degradation
  • US Soldiers Risk Ruin While Awaiting Benefit Checks
  • Hundreds of Students Homeless at Top University
  • Camden to Flatten Dozens of Crime-Riddled Houses
  • Angola's Assault on Cholera
  • More Households Self-Insufficient in Delaware County
  • Entrepreneurial Vision Takes Shape in Bolivia
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  • Next for Busy Girls: Build Houses
  • Virgin Islands Delegate Highlights Healthcare Gap
  • Sandanistas Kick Off 'Agro Revolution'
  • Healthcare Help Available But Unknown
  • Home-Improving Girls Get Coveted Awards
  • More Small Hauls

June 25, 2008

  • NJ Senate Votes on Regional Contribution Agreements
  • Canada Apologizes for Residential School Abuses
  • NJ Considers School Vouchers
  • 'Let Children Be Seen and Heard' in Africa
  • An Art Exhibit for Social Action
  • Suriname Sex Trade Exploits Dominicans and Brazilians
  • Camden Approves New Ordinance to Displace Crime
  • Filipino Education Dept Pushes 'Power Vegetable'
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • New Solutions Needed Amid Republicrat Leadership Vacuum
  • The Food's Free in Summer
  • AHOME Completes First 10-Year Round of Affordable Rehabs
  • New Initiative Would Get Some Tenants Evicted
  • More Small Hauls

June 11, 2008

  • Harnessing Sunlight on the Cheap
  • Severe School Budget Dilemmas in Kwazulu-Natal
  • Poll Shows Effects of Debt Stress on Health
  • Child Poverty Levels Drop in Gloucester County
  • Indonesia's (Micro-Hydroelectric) Power Couple
  • Assisted Living Centers Probed for Improper Evictions
  • '$100 Laptop' Gets Redesigned
  • Sale Exploits What Departing Students Abandon
  • In Spite of Efforts, Many Child Soldiers Remain
  • Camden Children to Play Ball on White House Lawn
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Scientists Block Sexual Development of Malaria Parasite
  • Clayton Afterschool Program Simulates Adult Society
  • Existence of Isolated Tribe Revealed in Brazil
  • Unions Say Privatizing Prisons Leads to Escapes
  • Employment Agency Workers Arrested for Fraud
  • More Small Hauls

May 28, 2008

  • Vietnam War Still Kills in Laos
  • Katrina, Rita, and the Houma
  • Extinctions of Domestic Species Pose Major Threat
  • Prescription for Global Poverty
  • Lower Income, Earlier Death
  • Conditions Worsening for Palestinian Workers
  • Testimony Heard on Water Service Shutoffs
  • Mangrove Project an Anti-Hunger Model
  • Co-Op Grows Crops for Public and Jobs for Refugees
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Wildlife Researchers Fear Effects of Border Fence
  • Survey Exposes Hunger Crisis in West Timor
  • Troubled Ancora Psych Hospital Slated for Changes
  • ILO to Help Pakistan Tackle Child Labor Abuses
  • Rapper Seeks to Revive Era of Conscious Hip-Hop
  • More Small Hauls

May 14, 2008

  • Atlantic City 30 Years After the First Casino Opened
  • The Rise of the Rest
  • The Incredible Shrinking City
  • Iraq: Corruption Eats into Food Rations
  • 'Rwanda Project' Underway in Maple Shade
  • Wyclef Jean Joins PAHO to Get Haiti Vaccinated
  • Early Start to Lives of Giving
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Happiness Is ... Neither Children Nor Money
  • Immigration March Shows Waning Movement
  • Egyptian Civil Society Strangled by Laws
  • Greater Woodbury Walk Raises Anti-Hunger Money
  • CHEERmobile Brings Shopping to Shut-Ins
  • More Small Hauls

April 30, 2008

  • New Vietnam Film Reveals an Unknown Side of the War
  • Inflation Drives Workers Out of Phnom Penh
  • Medicaid Co-Pay Proposal Causes Concern for Poor
  • In India, Even the Gods are Going Hungry
  • Foreclosure Crisis Has Wider Effects on Cities
  • Child Labor a Nationwide Problem in Saudi Arabia
  • Burmese Job Seekers Die in Thailand
  • How to Buy Happiness
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Divorced Female, 8 Years Old
  • Teen Honored for Giving Back
  • Man Plans 65-Mile Run for Education for Veterans
  • Dangerous Wheat-Killing Fungus Detected in Iran
  • Ocean City Sees Influx of Older Job Applicants
  • More Small Hauls

April 16, 2008

  • Record-High Cereal Prices Mean More Food Riots
  • Gang Prevention Program to Expand Across NJ
  • Global North-South Gap Slowly Shrinking
  • Cooper Hospital's Expansion and Its Side Effects
  • USAID Commences Environmental Repairs in Haiti
  • AYUDA Game to Benefit Needy Dominican School
  • Morocco 'Good Example' for Emerging Countries
  • New Network to Simplify Access to Services
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • African Media Urged to Promote Progress Not Hatred
  • County Tries to Rise Up from Bottom of 'Kids Count' Ranking
  • Ajanta to Challenge Tata Nano with Electric Car
  • IBM Executive Honored as Volunteer of the Year
  • More Small Hauls

April 2, 2008

  • Plague of Rats Threatens Millions with Famine
  • Spring Break Volunteers' Post-Katrina Update
  • North Korea Food Crisis Worsening
  • Housing Bust Stunting Remittance Growth
  • Women's Lives 'Worse Than Ever' in Afghanistan
  • West Chester Students Show Simulated African Shanty
  • When Laughter is the Only Medicine
  • Retail Clerks Could Revive the Labor Movement
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Poverty-Alleviating Debt Relief Offset by Rising Oil Costs
  • IRS Outreach Helps New Jerseyans Get Stimulus Rebates
  • Acute Respiratory Infection Kills in Papua Highlands
  • Recipients Call Attention to Inadequacy of Food Stamps
  • More Small Hauls

March 19, 2008

  • Officials See Progress in Camden
  • Millions of Iraqis Lack Water, Healthcare
  • Federal Homelessness Chief Visits South Jersey
  • AIDS Not as Prevalent in Haiti Anymore
  • Princeton to Send Incoming Freshmen Abroad to Serve
  • Spain Heads List of Remittance Senders
  • New Jersey's Only Successful Needle Exchange
  • NAFTA: A Look at the Mexican Side
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • 'Death Camp' for Cats Found Near Pittsburgh
  • North Africa to Develop Drought-Resistant Barley
  • UK Child Poverty Goal 'Unlikely to be Hit'
  • Tracking System Developed for Maternal Death
  • More Small Hauls

March 5, 2008

  • Anti-Malaria Net Production Begins in Africa
  • Fewer Code Blue Days, But More Families Seek Shelter
  • World Urged to Help Poor Adapt to Climate Change
  • Anti-Overcrowding Bill Sparks Vigorous Debate
  • Nigerian Prisons a National Scandal
  • Nonprofit Aims to Produce More 'Extreme Makeovers'
  • A Birthday Party in Gaza
  • South Jersey Farm Honored for its Produce Donations
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
  • US Economy Good for 'Repo Man'
  • India Hotspot for New Infectious Diseases
  • Village Wants Alaska State Troopers Out
  • Celebs Rally Against Human Trafficking
  • More Small Hauls

February 13, 2008

  • A Cancerous Cold War Legacy
  • Where the Cops are Too Far Away
  • Progress Slow for Roma Civil Rights
  • 'Homeless Real World' Exploits and Assists
  • Arab Stars Collaborate to Help Iraqi Refugees
  • Black Belt Region Seeks National Heritage Status
  • Brazil Booming
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Eighteen Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned
  • Four-Legged Foreclosure Victims
  • Families Take Government Handouts, Quit Zapatistas
  • Bipartisan Proposal Would Protect Money Meant to Help NJ Workers
  • Malaria Vaccine Enters Second Stage
  • More Small Hauls

January 30, 2008

  • Hungry Mothers Risk Addiction in their Adult Children
  • Semantics Debate Keeps Homeless Out in the Cold
  • Resettlement Offer Unsettles Bhutanese Refugees
  • More Illegal Immigrants Bypass Border States
  • Class Divide Hardens in Argentina
  • New Jersey's Slack Economic Sails
  • Romanian Children Caught in Dickensian Crime Schemes
  • Activists No Longer Besiege World Economic Forum
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Subprime Mortgage Crisis to Cause Record Losses for African-Americans
  • Muslims Unite with Christians in Grief for Slain Priest
  • Voorhees Eases Restrictions on Where Sex Offenders Can Live
  • Mentally Disabled Residents Routinely Abused
  • NY Town Pushes Plan to Let Seniors Work Off Taxes

January 16, 2008

  • Can the World Afford the Tata Nano?
  • SSD: Social Security Doldrums
  • Poor Sanitation Seen Killing 5,000 Children a Day
  • Camden Dealer Tells of Drug Earnings
  • Africa's Doctor Drain Apparently Underestimated
  • Emails Reveal Starbucks' Anti-Unionization Espionage
  • Lakota Sioux Declare Sovereign Nation Status
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • 2007 the Warmest Year Ever on Land
  • Aboriginal Canadian Children Receive Books Voraciously
  • Family Dollar Adapts to Challenging Economy
  • 'Sanitation Costs a Lot, But It's Not a Luxury'
  • Low-Cost Heating Oil Ads Sway Some, Roil Others
  • More Small Hauls

January 2, 2008

  • Middle-Class Security Now Elusive in America
  • Glacier Melts Threaten South America's Water Supply
  • Affordable-Housing Complex Now Eco-Friendly
  • Helping Burundian Refugees Go Back Home
  • NJ Families Re-Unify After Foster Care
  • US Immigration Policy Vs International Norms
  • Opportunity and Obstacles in Millville
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Mother Teresa's Inner Darkness
  • Being Poor is a Lot of Work
  • More Small Hauls

December 12, 2007

  • American Healthcare Puts First Americans Last
  • Dalits Still Suffering Post-Tsunami
  • Nonprofits and Christmas: A Reality Check
  • Nigeria Steps Up Fight Against Child Trafficking
  • Legislators Open Debate on Affordable Housing
  • From Truck-Stop Prostitution to Legitimate Commerce
  • Incentive Program Leads to More Prenatal Care
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Residential School Horrors Haunt Native Americans
  • Children's Anti-AIDS Efforts Spotlighted
  • Brides and Grooms Say 'I Do' to Toy Drive

November 28, 2007

  • Deforestation Means Starvation in North Korea
  • New Numbers on US Poverty and Hunger
  • More Financial Services Needed by World's Poorest
  • Many Denominations, One Purpose in Camden
  • Deadly Disease Combination on the Rise
  • High-Profile US Evangelicals Fight AIDS
  • A Desire to Learn Stifled by Hunger
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • Kentucky Students Aim to Influence State Lawmaking
  • Chávez's 'Socialist City' Rises
  • Food Drive Makes Teacher Sleep on Roof

November 14, 2007

  • Economy in Africa Looking Up
  • Mystery Donor Astounds Charities
  • Serbian Mental Institutions 'Horrifying'
  • Camden School Shows Excellence Through the Arts
  • Displaced in Somalia: A Refugee's View
  • How Immigration Raids Affect Children
  • New Genetic Map Shows How AIDS Got to US
  • LNN Small Hauls
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  • South Jersey Students Experience Katrina Recovery
  • 'Extreme Makeover' Episode Draws Instant Acclaim in Camden
  • Anti-Gay Job Discrimination Affects Men More Than Women

 

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