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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 22, 2011

Will troop surge prevent crime in Latin America?
Alaska Dispatch
The Honduran government is the latest to employ this measure, sending hundreds of troops to the northern province of Colon, where clashes over land have left at least 11 people dead. Scattered reports have linked the killings to criminal organizations ...
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Alaska Dispatch
Treasury Wine's strategy bears fruit
Business Spectator
Treasury has its big production bases in Australia, New Zealand and North America, as well as wineries in South America and Europe, but the North American wineries' output is devoted almost exclusively to that domestic market. There is obvious sense in ...
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LG sheds light on the Optimus Sol, available mid-September in Europe
Engadget
... and South America afterward. It'll also be available in black, titan and white color options. Want to know more? Take a look at the full press release after the break. SEOUL, Aug. 22, 2011 – LG Electronics (LG) today announced the latest (LG-E730). ...
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Chile's president sees star fall amid student protests
Financial Times
It is the world's top national producer of the red metal, the only South American member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Security, and its prudent economic management is widely lauded. Mr PiƱera's predecessor, Michelle Bachelet, ...
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5 Reasons Capitalism Has Failed
AlterNet
When the timberlands of North America began to be depleted, lumber corporations moved to South America and then Asia. Now, the "easy pickings" are gone. Global corporations have ravished the world and citizens of every nation live with the ...
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University of Mary latest school to ban smoking and tobacco on campus
Bismarck Tribune
A sign at the south entrance to the University of Mary campus tells visitors that smoking and tobacco are now off limits. The university became a smoke-free campus on Aug. 15. The university's campuses also will be tobacco-free beginning Jan. 1, 2012. ...
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Brazil Education Sector Holds Enormous Growth Potential
SBWire (press release)
Ongoing research revealed that the country has witnessed rapidly increasing need and demand for higher education facilitates, owing to emergence of Brazil as a focal center for knowledge outsourcing in Latin America. Rapidly changing economic landscape ...
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Announcement: Help Us Cover Emerging Digital Media Markets
paidContent.org
We want to deliver more news and analysis to our global readers from China, Russia, eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia. The world may be getting smaller, but the sector now defined as digital media is only getting bigger. We're looking for occasional ...
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Sharon Man Is All Write
Patch.com
Kohan says his parents came from Bessarabia, which is now Moldova, to South America, where he was raised in Santiago, Chile. "I don't even really know the name of the shtetl my father grew up in. So, I didn't even give it a name in my book," says Kohan ...
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A balance of the sexes: How men and women can better protect forests together
Forests Blog, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)
said Esther Mwangi, CIFOR Scientist and co-author of the recent article 'Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and South America', in Ecology and Society. Instead researchers at the Centre for International Forestry Research and the...
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Fortune Oil appoints Armenia project director
Stock Market Wire
Gorman has more than 30 years of mining and metals experience with a proven track record of successfully building, operating and delivering metallurgical and mining projects in South America, Africa and Europe. Prior to his appointment, Gorman spent ...
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NHI to cause 10% tax hike
iAfrica.com
In real 2010 prices, the government expects to increase health expenditure from the present R103-billion to R255-billion, an increase of 150 percent. The BoA/Merrill Lynch report says South Africa currently spends roughly 8.5 percent of gross domestic ...
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Pinot Smack Down – Willamette Valley defends the Championship Title
Eugene Daily News
Aside from France & the US, it's also grown in Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Austria and parts of South America and South Africa. I decided to use Twitter as my social media outlet for reaching out to other Pinot ...
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Eugene Daily News
Chicago police chief McCarthy sees progress in first 100 days
Chicago Sun-Times
In June, he told parishioners at St. Sabina Church — a mostly African-American congregation on the South Side — that federal gun laws promoted by the National Rifle Association amount to “government-sponsored racism” because they help channel weapons ...
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Play against Jeff Stelling and co to win big prizes
SkySports
Aguero started as a substitute in last Monday's 4-0 win over Swansea, scoring twice, and is preferred to his fellow Argentina striker Tevez, who has been frustrated in his attempts to move closer to his family in South America. ...
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Chavez denounces West over Libya
NEWS.com.au
"It's the excuse to intervene and seize a country and its riches," Chavez said. Chavez - Gaddafi's main supporter in Latin America - has consistently denounced the months-long military operation in Libya claiming it is an oil grab by Western powers.
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Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government Subsidies
The State Column
Forty percent of the nation's new jobs have been created in the Lone Star State since June 2009. “Our message is clear, we've got to get America working again,” Perry said during a campaign stop in South Carolina on Saturday. ...
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UK Toll Roads Need To Look Overseas Say Freight Haulage Groups
The Handy Shipping Guide
Despite the organisation's long pedigree, and hundreds of members from theAmerica's, Australia, South Africa and Europe, only one British fee collection authority, the Severn River Crossing plc, appears to be linked to the International Bridge, ...
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The Handy Shipping Guide
Is The Kim Kardashian And Kris Humphries Nuptials America's Version Of A Royal ...
Forbes
I write for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, Asia Tatler and Harper's Bazaar Singapore. You can also read my thoughts on fashion and design on http://www.styleintel.com/ Follow me on twitter: @bluecarreon The author is a Forbes contributor. ...
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Goodwill Ambassadors
China.org.cn
A recent BBC/Globescan poll of 28 nations showed that only in Africa and Pakistan is China viewed positively while in Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America, public opinion is either neutral, poor or negative. China has wasted a great deal of ...
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China.org.cn
I Malvolio, Hotel Medea, Untitled Love Story, What Remains - Sunday Herald view
Herald Scotland
For sure, there is a certain power in the beat-driven music, the anguished and enraged Medea and, most notably, the remarkable, explosive Absyrtus (murdered brother of Medea, resurrected here as a wild and frightening figure from a pagan South American...
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Herald Scotland
Nanotechnologists Are Targets of Unabomber Copycat, Alarming Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
"In our country, and in the whole Latin American region, we put more faith in the supernatural than in reason. This poses fatal consequences, making people view researchers in science and technology with suspicion and hate, as inhuman individuals, ...
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Obama hits the links for the 78th time
Wizbang (blog)
When sends a strikingly Latin American message. Underlining the point, the motorcade. In some of these one-stoplight burgs, the president's escort obama doesn't care about America. That is, he doesn't care when he isn't actively hating America or ...
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TV Tonight: 'How I Met Your Mother,' Top Gear,' 'Frasier'
USA Today
Top Gear (BBC America, 9 ET/PT) kicks off another season with guest Alice Cooper as The Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. The guys celebrate the 50th birthday of the Jaguar E-Type and test a 10-ton Marauder on the streets of South Africa. ...
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USA Today
Obamas Travel Like South American Dictators
Canada Free Press
Presidente Obama es muy importante. He must be. He travels like a South American Dictator instead of a president of a democratic nation. Sacrifice is so for the little people, ya know? Let's take his latest of his many, many vacations. ...
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CHIC.TV Magazine Episode 5
CHIC.TV
TV Magazine we meet American Supermodel Karlie Kloss, go backstage to Yigal Azrouel Fall 2011 show, meet Danish model Charlotte Hoyer, join celabrate South of France wine and food festival in New York City, go backstage to the fashion line that ...
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